PAIU CURRICULUM COORDINATORS MEETING

APRIL 2015

PVAAS Update

Kristen Lewald, Ed.D.PVAAS Statewide Director for PDE

Topics

Transition of PA Assessment SystemRoster VerificationPEERSPDE PVAAS WebpagesQ & A

PVAAS and Transition of Assessment System

TN Example: Changes in Assessment System

Revised FAQ for PVAAS and Transition of PA Assessment System is in development

Spring 2015 Roster Verification

Clarification about Grade 3 Communication

E-mail sent to District Admins, District Roster Verifiers, School Admins, and School Roster Verifiers.

Roster Verification FAQ updated and posted on PVAAS login page SAS EVAAS will use grade 3 as part of teacher level analyses

only NO grade 3 reporting in PVAAS

However, teachers of Grade 3 Math or ELA do NOT need to complete roster verification for the purpose of PVAAS analyses or reporting!

LEAs may choose to have Grade 3 Teachers verify rosters (student+teacher+test) for the purposes of exporting the roster data and using it to help determine the “Student Performance on State Assessments” (% Proficient and Advanced).

Spring 2015 Roster Verification

PIMS Staff Template 3/25/2015 was the last submission for the creation of

PVAAS School User accounts in SY14-15 New accounts (from the 3/25 submission) available by

4/27/15 Accounts can always be created locally/manually LEAs can download a file of “active accounts”

Gap Student Enrollment Data

Gap Student Enrollment Submission Dates

All students included on any LEA’s Voluntary Enrollment or Staff Student Subtest PIMS submission as of March 25, 2015 can be searched for/found within the PVAAS roster system and added to a roster.

Gap Student Enrollment submissions in PIMS provide means for LEAs to add students to the system who were not included on a submission on or before March 25, 2015 (e.g., students new to PA public schools).

Document in development that includes submission dates and instructions on searching/adding students to rosters. Will be placed on PVAAS login page for LEAs!

Students submitted in PIMS by these dates

Will be available inPVAAS by these dates

March 31April 27

April 7

April 14

May 14April 21

April 28

May 5May 28

May 12

May 19

June 11May 26

June 2

Spring 2015 Roster Verification

Help for a few LEAs with incomplete Staff-Student-Subtest submissions (used to prepopulate PVAAS rosters) 1:1 emails to these LEAs; IU will be cc’d Building Rosters Manually how-to document about adding teachers,

rosters, and students Using Phases Effectively document, with suggestions for “gaining time” to

work on rosters

LEA Preview Phase, by SchoolApril 27- May 3, 2015 (1 week)

Teacher Verification PhaseMay 4-17, 2015 (2 weeks)

School Administrator Verification PhaseMay 18-31, 2015 (2 weeks)

LEA Verification PhaseJune 1-14, 2015 (2 weeks)

Spring 2015 Roster Verification Supports

Roster Verification FAQ Document Commonly asked Roster Verification questions

Virtual Office Hours - Q&A Sessions Tuesday afternoons, 2:30 – 4:00 pm, April 28 – June 9 Thursday mornings, 7:30 – 9:00 am, April 30 – June 11 See “RV Training and Resources” document on the PVAAS login

page for links to join!VLM

On the e-Learning page Great tool for training teachers!

Contact Us (top right of any PVAAS page)

2015-16 PVAAS Professional Development Preview

Preview SY2015-16 plans during webinar on April 29

Gathering feedback during and after session How well will needs of your LEAs

be met? Suggestions?

Not a Train-the-Trainer session – rather, a chance to share our preliminary plans and gather your feedback!

PEERS

Export in PEERS– not yet available Details for this feature are in development It will likely not include all detailed data leading up

to the final rating form (weighting of teacher specific, each score for teacher specific, etc.)

Expect that it will include all data on the final rating form

PDE Website Redesigned

Two ways to find the PDE PVAAS webpages: You can keep using the

shortened URL: http://education.state.pa.us/pvaas

You can go to “State Assessment System”. (Scroll down until you come to PVAAS & click the link!)