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Orange County School Board reviews common final exams, progress monitoring and teacher-evaluation links
Summary
District staff explained why Orange County Public Schools uses locally developed progress monitoring activities (PMAs) and common final exams (CFEs), how those assessments are created and used in teacher evaluations, and the board directed staff to reconvene with the teachers' union to revisit preferences.
Orange County School Board members spent a work session on May 6 reviewing the district's use of progress monitoring activities and common final exams and how those assessments feed into teacher evaluations.
District staff told the board the PMAs are “focused on instruction and aligned to standards” and “should not be used for grading purposes,” while CFEs are summative end-of-course exams administered districtwide to provide consistent final-exam data and to supply student-learning-growth data for teacher evaluations.
Board members asked whether CFEs add too much testing time and whether the district could rely instead on state assessments such as FAST. Superintendent Dr. Vasquez said the district could stop CFEs and use state assessments, but noted that the current approach was adopted in response to teacher feedback. Member Gallo said, “I'm not a fan of high stakes testing and the fact that we are doing high stakes testing on students really for the sole reason of…
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