Assessment Revision Regional Town Hall Meetings
FALL 2010 COLORADO ASSESSMENT SYSTEM PUBLIC FEEDBACK TOUR
The Department of Higher Education and Colorado Department of Education Present the Draft Recommendations for Colorado’s New Assessment System
CDE and DHE have concluded the Regional Townhall Assessment Revision Tour. It consisted of 10 meetings held around the state in order to learn about the draft recommendations for Colorado’s new assessment system. Over 200 Coloradans provided feedback to the Departments before final recommendations move to the State Board of Education and Commission on Higher Education.
The evening meetings started with a brief presentation about the definition of postsecondary and workforce readiness, reviewed the new Colorado Academic Standards and SB 212 legislative requirements, and described the vision for the new assessment system. Then small groups were formed and participants were led through a discussion of the following five questions:
- Does this assessment system make sense to you?
- What do you like about these components?
- What don’t you like about these components?
- How can these components enhance student learning & performance?
- How will these components help you in your role?
Click here to download the summary of the tour results.
Please click on the links below to view the results of each meeting:
To review all the feedback compiled, please click here.
Assessment Tour PowerPoint PresentationPAST REGIONAL TOURS
WINTER 2009
In a joint effort, CDE and DHE completed a 13-city regional tour to provide an opportunity for Coloradans to tell us what they want in the new assessment system using the new standards! Broken into two types of meetings, SR/early grades and PWR/high school assessments.
We had over 400 attendees and for people unable to join us in person they could take advantage of online survey opportunity. Thank you to everyone who attended!
We asked four questions:
1. What would be the significant elements of the new assessment system
2. How should we measure PWR/SR and k-6 or high school
3. If you can’t have everything what do you chose, and
4. What would be the optimal impact of the new assessment system if we got this right?
The key highlights include:
- Fast results
- Meaningful results to all stakeholders, including students, parents and institutes of higher education; portability
- Just in time…not a BIG event but an ongoing feedback
- Assessment results should be diagnostic and used to inform instruction and interventions
- Student-driven and mastery-based
- Formative and summative results
- Keep the end in mind: prepare all students for postsecondary and workforce readiness without remediation.