ii. Estimated Costs of Annual PACT Tasks

This rubric breaks down PACT and describes both PACT Central’s role and that of the Programs for each task, leaving room for estimated costs incurred by the tasks for both PACT Central and the individual programs.

PACT Tasks for Implementation

Start-Up Tasks

Task / What PACT Central Does / Estimated Central
Costs / What Programs Do / Estimated Local
Costs
Policy Development /
  • Distribute draft response to Standards 19-21
  • Distribute Implementation Handbook
/
  • Develop and/or review policies for testing accommodations.
  • Review policy on dealing with plagiarism for applicability to PACT

Implementation Plan /
  • Distribute draft response to Standards 19-21
/
  • Develop a response to Standards 19-21 describing your plan for implementing PACT
  • Develop a plan for developing, supporting, administering, and scoring any Embedded Signature Assessments (ESAs).

Support Students to Complete the Teaching Event /
  • Develops and posts documents, e.g., Tips for Videotaping, Guidelines for Supporting Students, Making Good Choices
/
  • Provide ongoing instruction
  • Designate how and by whom questions about the Teaching Event are answered
  • Assist candidates in obtaining parental permission for videotaping for use in benchmarking, training, instruction, and web-based access
  • Collect permission from candidates to use their Teaching Event for use in benchmarking, training, instruction, and web-based access
  • Provide technical support and/or instruction for videotaping, scanning documents, and other technological tasks
  • Establish and communicate deadlines to faculty, supervisors, and students

Identify Benchmarks /
  • Identify benchmark needs in each credential area
  • Solicit potential benchmarks from programs
  • Recruit benchmarkers
  • Plan and oversee benchmarking process, including reviewing benchmarker write-ups
  • Reformat benchmarks and remove names
  • Send complete set of benchmarks to all PACT programs
/
  • Identify and copy potential benchmarks and send to PACT Central
  • Support benchmarker time & travel
  • Copy benchmark write-ups

Annual PACT Tasks

Task / What PACT Central Does / Estimated Central
Costs / What Programs Do / Estimated Local
Costs
Distribute Teaching Events & Rubrics /
  • Oversee revisions in Handbooks and rubrics, based on suggestions from the field or from special development teams
  • E-mail to programs & electronic platform sponsors (UCOPIS, G*STAR, TaskStream, LiveText, etc.)
  • Post on website
/
  • (Optional) Copy Teaching Event Handbooks & rubrics
  • (Optional) Update Teaching Event Handbooks & rubrics
  • Distribute to candidates, faculty, supervisors, and K-12 colleagues

Support Implementation /
  • Create and continually update, as needed, an Implementation Handbook
  • Plan an annual Implementation Conference where members share practice
/
  • Share best practices through the Implementation Handbook and Implementation Conference
  • Distribute the Implementation Handbook
  • Support attendance of key program staff at Implementation Conference
  • Provide training for new Faculty/Supervisors

Support Students to Complete the Teaching Event /
  • Develops and posts documents, e.g., Tips for Videotaping, Guidelines for Supporting Students, Making Good Choices
/
  • Provide ongoing instruction
  • Designate how and by whom questions about the Teaching Event are answered
  • Assist candidates in obtaining parental permission for videotaping for use in benchmarking, training, instruction, and web-based access
  • Collect permission from candidates to use their Teaching Event for use in benchmarking, training, instruction, and web-based access
  • Provide technical support and/or instruction for videotaping, scanning documents, and other technological tasks
  • Establish and communicate deadlines to faculty, supervisors, and students

Identify Benchmarks /
  • Identify benchmark needs in each credential area
  • Solicit potential benchmarks from programs
  • Recruit benchmarkers
  • Plan and oversee benchmarking process, including reviewing benchmarker write-ups
  • Reformat benchmarks and remove names
  • Send complete set of benchmarks to all PACT programs
/
  • Identify and copy potential benchmarks and send to PACT Central
  • Support benchmarker time & travel
  • Copy benchmark write-ups

Conduct Training of Trainers /
  • Design training and create training protocols
  • Provide training materials to programs in accessible formats
  • Recruit Lead Trainers
  • Identify trainers
  • Recruit sites (North & South)
  • Obtain funding from UCOP and CSU Chancellor’s Office for Training of Trainers
  • Arrange for payment of expenses from Training of Trainers Produce/copy all training materials
  • Observe Training of Trainers
/
  • Maintain a pool of trainers in every credential area
  • Identify and recruit trainers for needed areas
  • Take a turn hosting Trainings of Trainers, including arrangement for facilities, equipment, and food
  • Support trainer time & travel

Conduct Scoring
(Local) /
  • Provide copies of benchmarks & scoring forms
/
  • Identify number of Teaching Events to be scored, by credential area
  • Calculate number of scorers needed for each credential area and recruit scorers
  • Establish a policy and plan for responding to incomplete or unreadable portions of Teaching Events
  • Collect Teaching Events
  • Establish timetable for scoring, including training and a deadline for submitting scores

Conduct Scoring
(Local – cont’d) /
  • Provide guidelines for conducting scoring, including what is required and what is optional Assist programs in finding external trainers, as needed
/
  • Arrange for facilities, equipment and food
  • Copy training materials
  • Conduct local training in subject-specific groups
  • Calibrate all scorers Monitor scoring, doublescoring all Teaching Events just at or below passing & 20 % of the remainder

Conduct Scoring
(Regional) /
  • Recruit Lead Trainers & Table Leaders
  • Recruit sites (North & South)
  • Identify scorers
  • Produce/copy all training & scoring materials
  • Review Teaching Events to be scored to make sure they are complete and all files are viewable
  • Monitor scoring, doublescoring all Teaching Events just at or below passing & 20 % of the remainder
/
  • Take a turn hosting regional scoring, including arrangement for facilities, equipment, and food
  • Collect Teaching Events and send to Regional Scoring
  • Recruit scorers, in proportion to # of Teaching Events sent
  • Support time and travel of scorers

Remediate Failing Candidates and Score Retakes /
  • Rescore all Teaching Events from candidates with one or more scores of level 1. If the first and scorer disagree on the pass/fail decision, the trainer scores.
  • Provide remediation to candidates identified as failing through this process.
  • Score the Teaching Event task(s) submitted as retakes.

Conduct Scoring
(Audit) /
  • Recruit Lead Trainers
  • Identify scorers
  • Recruit sites (North & South)
  • Reformat benchmarks and remove names
  • Produce/copy all training materials
  • Collect Teaching Events for audit from programs
/
  • Collect a sample of Teaching Events and send to audit
  • Recruit scorers for audit, in proportion to # of Teaching Events sent
  • Support time and travel of scorers for audit

Report Scores and Other Information /
  • Conduct analyses of fairness
  • Develop and return customized institutional reports including descriptive statistics on performance for both individual programs and the entire consortium
/
  • Collect scores, demographic information, and other research information & send to PACT Central for analysis
  • Give scores to candidates in a format that can be carried to induction

Develop ESAs /
  • Develop guidelines and training for ESA development
  • Assist programs with ESA development
  • Convene work groups to share ESA development experiences and products
/
  • Identify areas for ESA development
  • Revise existing assignments or develop new ESAs, including instructions to candidate, scoring criteria and rubrics, and scoring training and procedures
  • Copy ESA materials
  • Administer and collect ESAs within courses
  • Identify ESA scorers
  • Score ESAs
  • Collect and analyze data on ESAs and use to maintain their technical quality

Use Scores and Completed Teaching Events for Program Improvement /
  • Collect feedback from programs, trainers, scorers and analyze score distribution to identify needed areas of improvement
/
  • Examine score patterns and consider any implications for program improvement
  • If program improvements are needed, develop & implement plan for improvement

Use & Develop Technology to Support PACT Implementation /
  • Coordinate with electronic platform sponsors (e.g., UCOP, TaskStream, G*STAR) to update templates for Teaching Events, rubrics, passing standard, etc.
/
  • Train faculty, supervisors, and candidates to use any technological platforms

Obtain Foundational Support & Other Support & Conduct Research /
  • Seek grant funds to support PACT operations and research
  • Look for federal and foundational support to fund research and development (ESAs)
  • Look for money to support PACT-realted master’s theses and doctoral dissertations
  • Assist with IRBs to use consortiumwide data for research
/
  • Share relevant research conducted by faculty and students on PACT-related issues, e.g., teacher education practices that promote teacher quality

Obtain Foundational Support & Other Support & Conduct Research (cont’d) /
  • Conduct ongoing validity study of the Teaching Event (e.g., Carnegie study)

Occasional PACT Tasks

Task / What PACT Central Does / Estimated Central Costs / What Programs Do / Estimated Local Costs
Maintain Collaborative Relationships with State Institutions /
  • Respond to CTC, UCOP, CSU Chancellor’s office on behalf of PACT consortium
  • Identify state initiatives having implications for PACT and coordinate response

Carry Out Governing Board Policies /
  • Convene meeting to establish a Governing Board, including responsibilities, representation, length of terms, and replacement policies
  • Carry out policies established by the Governing Board
  • Manage and protect copyright
/
  • Collaborate in establishing Governing Board, including responsibilities, representation, length of terms, and replacement policies
  • Carry out policies established by the Governing Board
  • Support the participation of any Governing Board representative from the program on Governing Board

Support New Members /
  • Respond to inquiries from institutions requesting informational presentations
  • Provide implementation support
  • Develop Implementation Handbook
/ New programs
  • Fully comply with the MOU
Experienced programs
  • Provide examples of program documents and practice, when requested
  • At the program’s option, provide informational presentations and respond to requests for assistance from new programs

Adapt Teaching Events for Additional Credential Areas /
  • Convene development teams and work with them to adapt the Teaching Event for the new credential area, keeping an eye on the technical quality, feasibility, and parallelism of the product
/
  • Identify new credential areas needing a Teaching Event
  • Identify faculty/supervisors/cooperating teachers with expertise in the new credential area for participation on development team

Further Develop Technological Support for PACT Work /
  • Work with electronic platform sponsors to further develop technology to support PACT work
/
  • At program option, provide opportunities to beta-test improvements in electronic platforms

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Source: PACT Central© 2007 PACT

Last edited: Spring 2007