Assessing+Teacher's+Rubric+Knowledge

Assessing the teachers’ understanding and ability to apply the scoring rubric using a teacher recording form for samples. Procedures:

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 * Prior to the assessment for teachers, two sets of 5 samples will have been evaluated by a team of subject matter experts (a group of district reading specialists) who will have used the teacher’s scoring rubric as their standard. For each sample the team will mutually agree upon  an assigned a rating of 1 to 4 for each domain represented on the scoring rubric.
 * Assessment will occur 2 weeks after the initial training on how to use the teacher’s scoring rubric. During the assessment the teachers will individually read each of the samples from the first sample set. __With a copy of the scoring rubric on hand__ , the teachers will assign a rating of 1 to 4 for each domain represented in the scoring rubric. They will record their scores on a Google form. When finished, the teachers will submit the Google form as seen below.


 * Once submitted the data from the form will appear on a Google Spreadsheet. The subject matter experts team, consisting of the reading specialists, will determine satisfactory understanding and application of the teacher’s scoring rubric based on the following criteria:
 * Teachers must have matched the subject matter experts at least three times in each domain and may not have assigned a score in any domain that is __more__  than +/- 1 compared to the subject matter experts’ rating.


 * Prior to receiving feedback about how well they understand the teacher’s scoring rubric, teachers will need to a Level I survey (see Professional Development Reaction Survey) about their perceptions of the training.
 * Feedback will be given to the teacher being assessed in the form of an email explaining which domains they are performing satisfactorily in and which they are not. These emails will be developed by the team of reading specialists.


 * Teachers not demonstrating satisfactory understanding and application will need to complete a refresher training online, which will consist of one synchronous session with a reading specialist to analyze the thought process of the teacher as he or she is assessing the sample sets.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Two weeks after the refresher training, the teacher will retake the assessment using the second set of samples which had been prepared by the subject matter experts.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Criterion for satisfactory understanding and application of the teacher’s scoring rubric will be the same as described above.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Teachers who still are not satisfactory will need to co-score student writings with another teacher who has received a satisfactory level. Teachers still not receiving satisfactorily will need to continue to work <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">with a subject matter expert and continue being assessed, alternately using sample set 1 and sample set 2.