JoinPLI #5
National Conference in Atlanta • March 22-25, 2023
Full Day Workshop
Designing Equitable, 3D, Curriculum-Anchored Assessments
Preconference • Wednesday, March 22 • 8:15 AM - 3:30 PM
Facilitators: Katie Van Horne, Aneesha Badrinarayan, Sara Cooper, and Dawn Novak
$150
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About the Session
Have you wanted to develop three-dimensional assessments that connect to your curriculum and standards and are coherent to your students? Come join us and work together to design a prototype for a classroom task you can try out with your students using our new NGSS Task Design Workbook. Using lessons we have learned over 10 years of designing NGSS assessments, we will highlight the key elements of 3D assessment design—like problematizing phenomena, centering sense-making, ensuring tasks truly assess your targets at grade-level, and accessibility features that allow all students to make their thinking visible— that distinguish high quality assessments. These high-leverage components of task development will prepare you to adapt and design assessment tasks that center your students and engage them in using the 3Ds for sensemaking. Follow up sessions during the conference will dig deeper into the development and use of 3D assessments, providing useful feedback to students, lessons learned from pilot schools currently developing curriculum aligned assessments, and tangible resources to use with your students.
Katie Van Horne
Katie Van Horne, Ph.D. is a learning scientist and an independent researcher. She has worked designing instructional materials and assessment systems for multiple projects including OpenSciEd and Inquiry Hub. She currently supports states and their work around instructionally relevant assessment systems with the Learning Policy Institute. Katie can be reached at katie@concolorresearch.com.
Aneesha Badrinarayan
Aneesha Badrinarayan is the Director of Assessment at the Learning Policy Institute where she supports the development of innovative state and federal assessment system policy and practice. Prior to LPI, Aneesha served as the Director of Special Initiatives at Achieve, where she led implementation efforts for the Next Generation Science Standards with a focus on instructionally relevant assessment systems designed for three-dimensional science standards. Aneesha can be reached at abadrinarayan@learningpolicyinstitute.org.
Sara Cooper
Sara Cooper is the coordinator for joint projects with CU Boulder’s science curriculum and assessment teams and the Learning Policy Institute’s State Performance Assessment Learning Community. Current projects include; District Assessment Toolkit for Student-Centered Assessment Systems, 5D Master’s Assessment Course, Washington’s Equitable, Curriculum-Anchored Assessment System, and iHub assessment development. She has over fifteen years of experience as an educator in formal and informal settings ranging from elementary to college-level and is a former state department of education science specialist. Sara can be reached at sara.cooper@colorado.edu.
Dawn Novak
Dawn Novak is a Curriculum and Assessment Development Specialist. She currently is part of a curriculum aligned assessment development team working with multiple states to develop equitable 3 dimensional assessments and also leads a development team in the OpenSciEd Developers Consortium to develop professional learning experiences for high school teachers. Dawn has helped write multiple OpenSciEd middle school units as well as a couple of high school units. Dawn has been leading NGSS professional development workshops across the country. Prior to her current position, she taught middle school math and science and served as a science instructional coach. Dawn earned her BS in Elementary Education from the University of Iowa and her EdM in Curriculum and Instruction. Dawn can be reached at dnovak70@gmail.com.
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Conference Course
Assessment
Thursday, March 23 • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Aligned to What? Assessment Systems that are “Born” Instructionally Relevant
Speakers: Sara Cooper
Thursday, March 23 • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Lessons Learned in 3D Assessment Development
Speakers: Aneesha Badrinarayan
Thursday, March 23 • 2:20 PM - 3:20 PM
Sensemaking First: Designing Assessments to Elicit 3D Sensemaking
Speakers: Sara Cooper
Friday, March 24 • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
The Importance of Students Engaging in Problematizing in 3D Assessments for Sensemaking
Speakers: Sara Cooper
Friday, March 24 • 1:20 PM - 2:20 PM
The Multiple Paths of Equitable Assessment
Speakers: Aneesha Badrinarayan and Dawn Novak
Friday, March 24 • 2:40 PM - 3:40 PM
Exit Ticket Design Sprint - Prioritizing Student Experience in 3D Learning
Speakers: Katie Van Horne and Dawn Novak