✏️ EVALUATOR: Adding Evidence (Connect)

Evidence can come in any form. Some examples include student assessment growth charts, meeting notes, and pictures. Evidence Examples Ideas:

• Beginning of Year: View historical assessments, create student groups, and view student demographic data.
• Mid-Year: Collect reported grades (gradebook), gather new assessment data to target-specific groups for interventions.
• End of Year: Student growth charts, data extracts

Depending on your district's settings, different tasks allow files to be uploaded. Files include PDFs, spreadsheets, documents, videos, and pictures. The file must be smaller than 15 MB to be accepted.

Evidence collected and associated with the criteria provides a quick view in the Summary, helping you and the Evaluator see it together in one location.

Upload Evidence for Review 

1. Start by navigating to 'My Evaluatees' in the left navigation menu.
   • The 'My Evaluatees' list is also accessible under 'Summary' in the left navigation menu. 
2. Click the arrow to reveal the list of evaluatees assigned to you for management. 
3. Click the name of the Evaluatee you want to manage.
4. You will default to the Tasks tab of the Manage Evaluation Year page, where you will see a data table of the tasks for that Evaluatee.
5. Click the magnifying glass next to the chosen task.

6. Across the top of the page, you will find a set of subpages (tabs). Click the Resources tab.

Add File:

1. Click "Add File" in the top right corner.
2. Click the “+” icon in the File field.
3. Click the Choose a file button, locate the file to add, and click Accept.
4. Fill in a Description and Evaluator Notes.
5. Click the magnifying glass in the Associate Criteria field, click the checkbox to the far left for one or more criterion, and click Accept.
   • Click the arrow to the left of the criteria to reveal Evaluation Performance Levels and Descriptions.
6. Click Save.

Adding a Web Link 

1. Click Add Web Link.
2. Fill in the Web Link URL, Text (Title), and Evaluator Notes fields.
3. Click the magnifying glass in the Associate Criteria field, click the checkbox next to one or more criteria, and click Accept.
   • Click the arrow to the left of the criteria to reveal Evaluation Performance Levels and Descriptions.
4. Click Save.

Adding Student Growth Charts or other Charts

Depending on your district settings, different tasks allow Charts to be created and attached. This chart illustrates student growth, measured by performance levels, from one assessment to the next. This is a longitudinal cohort chart; students must have taken both selected assessments to be included in the chart. Teachers find this chart helpful for showing student growth and monitoring instruction as evidence for the Teacher Performance Evaluation Program (TPEP).

1. Start by navigating to My Tasks in the left navigation menu and clicking on the task of your choice.
   • Alternatively, tasks can be opened under "Manage Evaluation Year" in the left navigation menu.
2. You will default to the Details tab of the Perform Evaluation Task. Here, your Evaluator may have left notes to review.
3. Click on a task that has a Growth Charts subpage (tab). 

4. Click the Growth Chart tab.

5. In the Content Data Settings to the left, click First Assessment Test, then click the checkbox to the far left of your first chronological assessment of the two assessments.
   • Use the filter boxes at the top of the columns to search for specific information. 

6. Select the Second Assessment Test field similarly.
7. Click the Student Group field.
8. To the far left, select the School Year from the dropdown menu.
9. Click the radio button to select My Custom Student Groups, Shared Automatic Student Groups, or My Automatic Student Groups.  
   • Further filters, such as district-wide, school-specific, school, grade, class, activity, and teacher, may be available for selection.
10. To the far right, click the checkbox to the left of the chosen student group.

11. Once you have made these selections, the chart will be rendered to the right.
12. Click on a tile to view a list of students who met that criterion.
13. Click the Save Chart Configuration button in the top right.
14. Click the Saved Growth Charts Tab at the top of the page to view saved charts. 
15. Here, you can use in-cell editing to select a criterion to associate with it.
16. Click the magnifying glass in the Configuration Label column to view

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