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Inquiry & Assessment

Observation and Interview Study of Graduates (OIS)

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The Observation and Interview Study (OIS) is one of Bank Street's efforts to learn more about the work of our graduates in order to evaluate our programs to enable us to get better at preparing candidates for the teaching profession.

Built on the foundation of our AOI work, with the support of our Arts and Sciences (A&S) and teacher education partners we have developed a rubric and research methodology to assess teaching through observations and interviews. The Bank Street Continuum of Teaching was developed and piloted in 2004-2005. The Continuum includes rubrics with descriptions of practice at four levels of sophistication for the following domains of teaching:

• Planning instruction and designing learning experiences
• Understanding and organizing subject matter for student learning (with sub-domains for literacy, numeracy, and science; a social studies sub-domain is being developed this year)
• Creating and maintaining an effective environment for student learning
• Engagement to support student learning
• Assessing student learning
• Developing as a professional

This year ten of our faculty and A&S partners will be working to explore the teaching of a cohort of 28 of our graduates (across multiple Bank Street programs) in their second year of teaching, as part of the OIS Project. Data collection will commence in January and end in March. Results will be available in late spring.