PDK International | Professional Development

Taking the Mystery Out of Tests and Textbooks

All of our training opportunities are site-specific. That is, the content is tailored to the expressed needs of the participants, and it is delivered to your site.

AUDIENCE:

All educators

DESCRIPTION:

This one- or two-day hands-on seminar teaches educators how to analyze high stakes tests to identify the essential content being assessed. This important analysis of tests is based on the data yielded from deconstructing test items, and participants are taught to deconstruct publicly-released items using the deep alignment concept. The content, context, and cognitive type of test items are determined and then deepened, to maximize alignment between the taught and the tested curriculum.

This seminar also provides participants with the principles needed to analyze textbooks and other instructional resources for alignment to the test in use. Sample test materials are used in the seminar, as well as sample instructional resources.

For more information, or to schedule this training, contact
PDK Professional Development at 800/766-1156
E-mail: PDKProfessionalDevelopment@pdkintl.org

Graduate Credit is available for this workshop. Call for details.

Our Mission:
We know, we believe, and we support that professional development is an intentional process, that it is ongoing, and that it is systemic. We know that it must be integrated within school improvement planning and it must focus on student improvement. It must be based on well-documented research, and it must be tailored to the needs of the participants and delivered to them at their site.