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July 15, 2014 by Damon Douglas

I recommend taking a look (if you haven’t already) at the Massachusetts Teachers Association’s DDM Guidance. It explains impact cratermany complex topics clearly and explores new ground as well: see the crosswalk between assessment type and Bloom’s taxonomy on page 9!

Also worth a visit is DESE’s May report on Rating Educator Impact, which includes scenarios illustrating how professional judgment can inform the rating decision.

Filed Under: District Determined Measures, Evaluation Tagged With: DDM, DDMs, Impact Rating, MTA

DDMs: What’s Required vs. What’s Recommended

June 26, 2014 by Damon Douglas

One page vs. hundreds of pages.

buffalo-licks-bird-600x688All of the state’s regulations for DDMs can be viewed on this single page: State DDM Regs. The recommendations amount to hundreds of pages of text, webinar minutes, and powerpoint slides.

When building measures of student growth, it’s important for educators to be clear about the difference between regs and recs.

The adjective ‘district-determined’ was chosen because districts have been granted a great deal of control over the creation and implementation of DDMs.

Filed Under: District Determined Measures Tagged With: DDM, DDMs

DDM Hotbed of Science Performance Assessments

June 20, 2014 by Damon Douglas

Brockton High School, building on work done at Plymouth High sci labSchool, has created sets of pre- and post performance assessments for most of their science courses. The tasks focus on experimental design. Here are the grade ten performance tasks: Brockton Grade 10 Experimental Design. And I hope to gain permission to share the accompanying scoring rubric that Plymouth designed.

Email me (ddouglas@collaborative.org) if you would like to get in touch with the hard-working folks behind all of this work.

Filed Under: District Determined Measures, Evaluation, Science Tagged With: DDM, DDMs

Slick Method for Assembling DDMs Across a District

May 16, 2014 by Damon Douglas

Northampton Public Schools are asking teachers to submit  DDM information via a DDM Google Form – Northampton. The information they provide raindrops-on-smooth-banana-leaf-landscape-1-screensaveris  automatically tallied on a google spreadsheet, in a format that can be sent to DESE in June. The district is willing to share their work if there’s interest. Let me know through a comment or email: ddouglas@collaborative.org.

Filed Under: District Determined Measures, Evaluation, Examples Tagged With: DDM, DDMs, googleforms, northampton

Locally-Crafted DDMs Available Here

May 9, 2014 by Damon Douglas

schoolnurseWe are happy to make available measures of student growth created by local educators. You can access them by clicking here. The collection features examples from the arts, physical education, special education, and nursing. As teachers craft DDMs in their field, high-quality examples are extremely helpful.

A big thank you to the folks who shared their work. If you have a finished DDM, please send it to: ddouglas@collaborative.org.

Filed Under: District Determined Measures, Evaluation, Examples, School nurses Tagged With: cache, DDM, DDMs, examples, exemplars

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