Download Biology COE Webinar - Collection of Evidence / Overview

Biology COE Webinar
Best Practices
September 24, 2014
Scott Killough, COE Science Specialist
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Topics to be Covered
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Submission Calendar
Wearing Your Teacher Hat
Semester at-a-glance
Wearing Your Proctor Hat
Examples of “student” work
Helpful hints for biology teachers
Future webinars
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Biology COE Calendar
Date
Event
January 28th, 2015
Winter COE Submission: Class of 2015 Only
February 9th - 27th, 2015
Scoring
March 25th, 2015
Scores released on WAMS
April 29th, 2015
Spring COE Subsequent Submission: Class of 2015 Only
May 11th – 15th, 2015
Scoring
May 29th, 2015
Scores released on WAMS
June 10th, 2015
Summer COE Submission: All eligible students
July 6th – 17th, 2015
Scoring
August 14th, 2015
Scores released on WAMS
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Best practices:
(wearing your teacher hat)
• Assign biology tasks for your COE students. Making sure
those tasks meet the sufficiency rules.
http://www.coe.k12.wa.us/Page/302
• Have all of the tasks start as “on-demand”. The teacher
can easily switch the tasks to extended time when the
student wants to make revisions and improve an answer.
• Teach to the standards in a variety of differing scenarios
or contexts.
• Teach the academic & general vocabulary associated
with that standard and tasks.
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Best practices:
(wearing your teacher hat, continued)
• Use a variety of classroom practices, classroom
assessments, guided and independent practice, and
other activities to assess, and if need be, reteach the
standard.
• Have students answer mock tasks or released items.
Students can then peer review answers and rank them
according to quality of answers.
• Help students to develop conceptual frameworks. Check
for understanding using formative assessments.
• Positive feedback from formative assessments indicates
students are ready to go to the computer lab.
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Semester at-a-glance
• Teach one or more content standards.
• Check for understanding.
• Open access to items that address the content standard that was just
taught.
• Using the online system, students answer those items they have
been granted access.
• Teacher enters online system and reviews student responses.
• Student responses inform teacher’s decision to move onto new
content standard, or reteach.
• Tier two intervention. Teaching to subgroups.
• Teach one or more new content standards.
• Continue this process until all standards are covered and items
answered.
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Best practices:
(wearing your proctor hat)
• All student work on the Biology COE is done online, with the
exception of the optional diagrams.
• There is no teacher assistance on the COE tasks. These
are state assessments measuring whether students have met
proficiency as measured against the state standard for that
content area.
• The teacher administers the COE tasks as extended response
or on-demand in an “EOC-like” testing environment.
• Access to the internet should be restricted. This includes
all computers and cell phones.
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Examples of student work:
• Sample Question:
• The Moth and the Trees: Item 1 Question c
• http://www.coe.k12.wa.us/Page/329
• Nitrogen cycles through ecosystems. Both moths and
trees have nitrogen-containing molecules in their cells.
Describe how nitrogen from the atmosphere can become part
of molecules in a tree.
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Examples of student work: cont.
• One point response:
▫ Nitrogen in the air will be changed by bacteria in
the soil. The trees will absorb the nitrogen
through their (trees) roots.
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Examples of student work: cont.
• Zero point response:
▫ Nitrogen in the ground is absorbed by the roots
bacteria.
 “by the roots bacteria” incorrect statement
 Response does not address the atmosphere.
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Helpful hints for Biology teachers:
Instruct students to:
• Fully answer each online question.
• Fully explain/describe their answers in the context
of the question.
• Avoid using pronouns.
• Avoid predictions and conclusion statements on
field studies and controlled experiments.
• Diagrams must be labelled. Diagrams without labels
are considered drawings, and are not scored.
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Future Webinars: scoring modules
• Tentative Offerings:
▫ Module One: Salmonberry EOC update
 Content Standard: INQB
▫ Module Two: Salmonberry/Moths and the Trees
 Content Standards: APPB and APPC
▫ Module Three: The Moths and the Trees
 Content Standards: LS2A, LS2B, and LS2E
▫ Module Four: The Moths and the Trees
 Content Standards: LS3A and LS3E
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Contacts
• COE OSPI:
▫ Biology: Scott Killough
 360-725-6316
 [email protected]
▫ Operations: Amanda Mount
 360-725-6037
 [email protected]
• Technical Assistance:
▫ COE Tech Support
 360-464-6708
 [email protected]