Content Collaboratives

Resource Bank

• The fair and reliable student learning measures selected will be examples, which will begin a resource bank that grows in number and develops in sophistication over time. These instruments will be listed online in the state resource bank after piloting and peer review of the tools has verified consistency of use and intent for the purposes of educator effectiveness evaluations.
• These instruments will be recognized for voluntary school and district use beginning in August 2013. They will not be used in the district or school performance frameworks for accountability.
•  If a district chooses to create, augment or purchase other fair and reliable assessments not identified by the state, a quality criteria framework and protocol will be provided by The Technical Steering Committee to verify that they “meet or exceed” common Colorado thresholds for student learning measures.
• The state resource bank will house strong examples for demonstrating student academic learning. The instruments themselves will increase over the course of three years in both number of high quality assessments identified for use and level of psychometric sophistication.
• The online bank is a voluntary resource for schools and districts which decide to use these instruments to measure student growth for the purposes of determining, in part, effective teaching.
• Beginning August, 2013, these vetted instruments will be listed on the Resource Bank, housed on the Educator Effectiveness website.

Content Collaboratives: Member Training Webinars

• Assessment Introduction
• Content Review Tool