Workshop 1: February ITAP Workshop

Purpose

To offer participants an opportunity to apply concepts and procedures associated with alignment to the their team's local setting. Each team was to bring one of its own assessment tools and corresponding content standards and benchmarks (and/or grade-level indicators) to the workshop. In addition, teams might have also brought alignment evidence collected previously by the district. Time was provided for each team to use the alignment-checking process covered in the ICN sessions and Web Lesson to begin to gather alignment information about their own assessment tools, or to evaluate the sufficiency of previously existing alignment evidence that the district might have collected. The focus was on understanding how to apply the process-not to complete the work during the workshop. An ITAP instructional team was available to provide consultation to district teams as needed.

Schedule

Materials to be brought by each Team

1. Notes or handouts from first two ICN sessions
2. Resource materials downloaded from ITAP Library
   • ITAP Alignment Paper (by David Frisbie)
   • Alignment Table
   • Alignment Evidence Template (Revised)
   • Alignment Synthesis Form (Revised)
3. District materials to apply the process
   • District's content standards & benchmarks (or grade-level indicators) for either mathematics or reading at a selected grade level
   • Two copies of one of the district's district-wide assessments (that corresponded to the selected content area and grade level)
   • Ancillary materials for the chosen instrument that provide a description of the knowledge and skills measured by the instrument
   • Alignment table (from ITAP Library) that had been customized by the team to correspond to the assessment tool chosen by the team for this workshop (i.e., standards and benchmarks/grade-level indicators had been entered)
   • Any alignment evidence collected previously by the district