Dinowitz questions whether personal finance assessments and rubrics are consistent citywide

Well, it's going to depend on the model used, right?

So we have five different models that students can select from.

So within that curriculum, let's say curriculum A, call it whatever you want.

EverFi is one.

What is it called?

EverFi.

EverFi?

Yeah.

Cool.

EverFi.

EverFi.

That's just one of the five.

Okay, EverFi.

It's a silly name.

I don't know.

I didn't make the brand.

It's just, you know what I mean?

Ah, but you bought it.

Just kidding.

What I'm saying is like a kid who goes to EverFi 10th grade in Brooklyn is going to have the same assessment or be assessed on the same standards as a kid in the Bronx.

That's a yes.

The standards will be the same, but as Dr.

Chang said, it's going to depend on the model used, and it's going to depend on what schools are using.

So a student can be assessed through quizzes, through projects, through performance tasks, through case studies, presentations, or other classroom-based assessments.

But what we are doing is we are using...

Models that actually hit all of the standards that the state has told us are important for personal finance.

And how is the DOE ensuring that the rigor remains?

And I think this question is similar to any other subject.

How is the DOE ensuring what work has been done to ensure that the rigor remains, that students are graded, whatever the method of assessment is, on some sort of standard so we know it's transferable from school to school.

I mean, I'm happy to say that these are all models that we have used through our own work at the Office of Student Pathways, but I'm happy to turn it over to one of our colleagues.

It's still being developed, right?

This will be the first year, but what we do...

know is that all of the five that we selected were one because of schools and high schools and superintendents and principals that were very interested and had proven efficacy on the models

and second that there was an opportunity to really figure out like how is what is the best way to ensure that my students in my schools are learning the competencies.

Yeah.

Dr.

Chang?

I think at the core of your question is when we have these standards and expectations, how are we able to hold that level of expectations and that rigor across our schools?

And I think that that's a completely fair question for us to be asking at this point in time.

And so I want to be able to highlight that across all of these curriculums, we've made abundantly clear what the state standards are.

In the curriculum are tasks, assessment practices, and rubrics in which we are providing ongoing training.

In addition to that, we bring together teachers, ensure that what it is that they are grading and assessing are normed and scored.

And so you're familiar with how we do region-based scoring on open-ended assessments.

There are similar practices that says whether or not this particular task should result in this particular kind of score.

That kind of norm referencing is extremely important.

And to be able to ensure that we're being transparent.

about the standards that we're asking our students to do.

So in the case of personal finance, we are following what the state has laid out in terms of what the standards,

we've ensured that the curriculum layer is fully aligned, and we are doing the norming that is necessary across our schools to make sure that what this particular teacher says, this is great work, you've learned the standards, is also true in the next school.