Description
The Work Sampling System® | Fifth Edition is a curriculum-embedded observational assessment customized for each grade level.
The Work Sampling System® | Fifth Edition is a curriculum-embedded observational assessment customized for each grade level.
Author:
Samuel J. Meisels, EdD, Dorothea B. Marsden, MEd, Judy R. Jablon, MA, Margo Dichtelmiller, PhD
Overview:The Work Sampling System is a criterion-referenced observational assessment with extensive research supporting reliability and validity.
Administration:Administer to Grade PreK – 3
Scoring Option:Work Sampling Online (ordered by phone at 1.800.627.7271) or manual scoring
Frequency of Administration:3 times per year (fall, winter, spring)
Report Options:Summary Report
Users and Applications
This easy tool helps you:
- Collect information on the child’s work and compare it to grade-specific guidelines
- Identify what children are learning, what they are beginning to master, and what they still need to work on
- Use your observations and simplify the process of recording and interpreting them
- Inform curriculum and instruction planning
Content and Administration
- The interrelated elements of The Work Sampling System—Developmental Guidelines and Checklists, and Summary Reports—are customized for each grade level.
- Developmental Guidelines cover seven major curriculum areas: personal and social development; language and literacy; mathematical thinking; scientific thinking; social studies; the arts; and physical development, health and safety.
- Summary Reports replace conventional report cards as a way of recording progress, communicating with parents, and meeting reporting requirements. Using information from the Developmental Checklists, you complete a Summary Report three times a year.
Psychometric Information
The Work Sampling System is a criterion-referenced observational assessment with extensive research supporting reliability and validity.
Materials
Complete Classroom Implementation Kit for each level (P3, P4, K through Grade 3) includes:
- A Teacher’s Manual
- Developmental Guidelines
- 30 checklists
- Wall charts
- Reproducible Masters Flash Drive
Multi-Age Complete Classroom Implementation Kit (P3 and P4 combined) includes:
- A Teacher’s Manual
- P3 and P4 Developmental Guidelines
- 30 checklists
- Wall charts
- Reproducible Masters Flash Drive
The Teacher’s Manual— included in all kits—provides an overview, explains each element of the system, gives step-by-step procedures, and offers practical suggestions.
Summary Reports can replace conventional report cards as a way of recording progress and communicating with parents. Scores are “As Expected” or “Needs Development.”
Standards-based Developmental Guidelines Performance Indicators result in a score of “Not Yet,” “In Progress,” or “Proficient.”
Resources
- Success Story: A Preschool Streamlines its assessment process with Work Sampling Online
- Operating Systems and Browsers
- Work Sampling and Ounce Mobile App Tutorial
- Updates to The Work Sampling System 5th Edition
- Comparison Charts
- Meet the Content Experts
- Family Corner Video for Parents
Video Examples
- Using Assessment to Support Teacher Child Interactions
- Collecting Evidence at Small Group Time
- Using Digital Devices to Help With Collecting Evidence
- Using the Mobile App to Collect Evidence
- Using Assessment Information Helps Teachers Reflect
WSS- Research Summaries
- Personal and Social Development Research Summary
- Language and Literacy Research Summary
- Language and Literacy for ELL Research Summary
- Mathematical Thinking Research Summary
- Scientific Thinking Research Summary
- Social Studies Research Summary
- The Arts Research Summary
- Physical Development, Health, and Safety Research Summary
Work Sampling System Alignments
Select…
Common Core Kindergarten English Language Arts
Common Core Kindergarten Math
Common Core Grade 1 English Language Arts
Common Core Grade 1 Math
Common Core Grade 2 English Language Arts
Common Core Grade 2 Math
Common Core Grade 3 English Language Arts
Common Core Grade 3 Math
Georgia Preschool 4
Illinois IELDS Preschool 3
Illinois IELDS Preschool 4
Nebraska Grade 1
Nebraska Grade 2
Nebraska Grade 3
Nebraska Kindergarten
Nebraska Preschool 3
Nebraska Preschool 4
New Jersey Kindergarten English Language Arts
New Jersey Kindergarten Math
New Jersey Preschool
New York PreK Foundation for Common Core
OWL (Opening the World of Learning 2011)
Texas Preschool 3
Texas Preschool 4
Texas Kindergarten
Texas Grade 1
Texas Grade 2
Texas Grade 3
Pre-recorded Webinars
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Work Sampling Online End-of-Year Activities
Presenter: Melissa Shamblott, PhD
This webinar is designed to help programs using Work Sampling Online prepare for end-of-year activities. Topics will include reviewing and monitoring end-of-year data sets, creating outcome reports, analyzing outcome reports, and exporting student data. In the session we will also discuss how to use Work Sampling data to support each child’s transition to the next grade level.
Date: May 31, 2017
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The Path to Success for Young Children: Integrating Curriculum and Assessment
Presenter: Gloria Maccow, PhD and Beth Alley Wise
Children in pre-kindergarten classrooms do amazing things all day, every day. Some of the things they do are teacher-directed, some are spontaneous. As early childhood educators, we provide children with experiences and opportunities to develop the skills, knowledge, and behavior that have been demonstrated to predict learning. We also observe children’s performance to determine how to adjust and modify instruction. This dynamic interplay between instruction and assessment ensures our young learners are on the path to lifelong success.
This webinar will describe a comprehensive assessment and instruction solution that integrates The InvestiGator Club, a preschool curriculum that focuses on ten critical domains of learning, and The Work Sampling System, an authentic observational assessment that helps teachers individualize instruction.
Date: May 24, 2017
PDF: The Path to Success for Young Children: Integrating Curriculum and Assessment
Video: The Path to Success for Young Children: Integrating Curriculum and Assessment -
Work Sampling Online End-of-Year Activities
Presenter: Melissa Shamblott, PhD
This webinar is designed to help programs using Work Sampling Online prepare for end-of-year activities. Topics will include reviewing and monitoring end-of-year data sets, creating outcome reports, analyzing outcome reports, and exporting student data. During the one-hour session, we will also discuss how to use Work Sampling data to support each child’s transition to the next grade level.
Date: May 04, 2016
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Using Work Sampling Data to Plan Appropriate Curriculum and Instruction
Presenter: Melissa Shamblott
The Work Sampling System results in valuable data for planning children’s learning. In this session teachers and administrators will learn how to generate reports, review Outcome Reports, collected evidence, and Checklist ratings to plan developmentally appropriate curriculum and instruction that meets the needs of children and satisfies program goals.
Date: Feb 18, 2016
Video: Using Work Sampling Data to Plan Appropriate Curriculum and Instruction -
Starting the School Year with Work Sampling Online (WSO)
Presenter: Gloria Maccow, PhD
This one-hour webinar will provide information programs need to set up Work Sampling Online at the beginning of the school year. The presenter will describe and demonstrate how administrators use Work Sampling Online to create teachers and classes, assign teachers to classes, and add children to a teacher’s class. In addition, the session will demonstrate how teachers can use the online tools to document observations, store evidence, and link observations to performance goals.
Date: Aug 25, 2015
Video: Starting the School Year with Work Sampling Online (WSO) -
Making Meaning with The Work Sampling System
Presenter: Judy Jablon, MS
Becoming keen observers of children is an important step in effectively scaffolding children’s learning. When teachers have a deep understanding of child development and learning across multiple domains, they can make more easily make meaning of their observations. They tune into a child’s agenda to make on the spot decisions about how to extend learning that fits the child and the situation. In this one-hour webinar, Work Sampling System author Judy Jablon will discuss how The Work Sampling System helps educators to be fluent in children’s development and learning across domains and how this fluency supports the essential step of making meaning and scaffolding learning effectively. She will highlight how Work Sampling offers teachers a common language for talking with colleagues about teaching and learning so that together they can share strategies for effective supporting all learners.
Date: May 06, 2015
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Work Sampling Online End-of-Year Activities
Presenter: Melissa Shamblott, PhD
This webinar is designed to help programs using Work Sampling Online prepare for end-of-year activities. Topics will include reviewing and monitoring end-of-year data sets, creating outcome reports, analyzing outcome reports, and exporting student data. In the session we will also discuss how to use Work Sampling data to support each child’s transition to the next grade level.
Date: Apr 29, 2015
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Observing During Interactions
Presenter: Judy Jablon, MS
Research tells us that the child is most open to learning during moments of teacher-child interaction. These are the moments where the decisions about instruction can be shaped to have the greatest impact on the child’s learning. Amidst the busy-ness of classrooms and programs, quieting one’s mind to really stop and listen to a child’s agenda can be challenging. In this one-hour webinar, Work Sampling System author Judy Jablon will discuss how the Powerful Interactions model can help to integrate assessment and interactions.
Date: Apr 15, 2015
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Building Relationships
Presenter: Judy Jablon, MS
As educators, we know that relationships are the foundation for all good teaching. We have the most impact on young learners when relationships are rooted in a sense of wonder and a genuine curiosity. We learn who children are, what they know, how they think, how their thoughts and ideas fit together by asking questions and being keen observers. In this one-hour webinar, Work Sampling System author Judy Jablon will discuss how assessment can support you in asking questions about children, building stronger relationships with them and in turn, support all children in their success, both in the classroom and beyond.
Date: Mar 05, 2015
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Work Sampling Online Best Practices
Presenter: Melissa Shamblott, PhD
This webinar is designed to help ensure that you are engaging in Best Practices for Work Sampling Online. Topics will include reviewing and monitoring Work Sampling data, such as observations, work samples, Checklists, and Summary Reports, for accuracy, appropriateness, and completeness; developing strategies for planning children’s learning based on collected evidence and data reports; and making sure you are familiar with and using all the tools in the online system with ease.
Date: Feb 18, 2015
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Overview of the Work Sampling System-5th Edition
Presenter: Gloria Maccow, PhD
The Work Sampling System (WSS) is an authentic, performance-based assessment that teachers use to document and evaluate students’ skills, knowledge, and behaviors. The 5th edition of the WSS was published in 2013. This webinar will provide an overview of the updated WSS. At the end of the webinar, participants will be able to describe the components and assessment cycle of The WSS-5th Edition.
Date: Nov 18, 2014
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Starting the School Year with Work Sampling Online (WSO)
Presenter: Dr. Melissa Shamblott
This session is designed to help programs get WSO set up for the school year. Topics covered will include setting up teachers, creating classes, and adding children to the online roster. Additional topics will include how to get the observation and documentation process started with the online tools and informing families about your program’s Work Sampling implementation.
Date: Sep 17, 2014
Video: Starting the School Year with Work Sampling Online (WSO) -
Overview of the Work Sampling System-5th Edition
Presenter: Gloria Maccow, PhD
The Work Sampling System (WSS) is an authentic, performance-based assessment that teachers use to document and evaluate students’ skills, knowledge, and behaviors. The 5th edition of the WSS was published in 2013. This webinar will provide an overview of the updated WSS. At the end of the webinar, participants will be able to describe the components and assessment cycle of The WSS-5th Edition.
Date: May 14, 2014
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Using Observational Assessment to Meet the Needs of Diverse Learners
Presenter: Gloria Maccow, PhD
It is also important to conduct assessments on an ongoing basis to determine if and how each child performs curriculum tasks. Such an assessment system will provide the data teachers can use to individualize goals and objectives. The Work Sampling System-5th Edition is an observational assessment that has these characteristics. This one-hour webinar will describe the use of The Work Sampling System with diverse learners.
Date: Mar 25, 2014
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Overview of The Work Sampling System Online
Presenter: Gloria Maccow, PhD
The Work Sampling System (WSS) is an authentic, performance-based assessment that teachers use to document and evaluate students’ skills, knowledge, and behaviors. During this hour-long session, you will get a first-hand look at the streamlined and more efficient Work Sampling Online. We will take a tour of the online platform and describe how to use the online system to enter observations, link observations to checklists, and generate reports.
Date: Feb 25, 2014
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Overview of the Work Sampling System-5th Edition
Presenter: Gloria Maccow, PhD
The Work Sampling System (WSS) is an authentic, performance-based assessment that teachers use to document and evaluate students’ skills, knowledge, and behaviors. The 5th edition of the WSS was published in 2013. This webinar will provide an overview of the updated WSS. At the end of the webinar, participants will be able to describe the components and assessment cycle of The WSS-5th Edition.
Date: Feb 11, 2014
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Using Observational Data in the Evidence Based Classroom
Presenter: Gloria Maccow, PhD
By utilizing the process of observation, documentation, and interpretation of children’s performance and progress, teachers are able to gain valuable insight into children’s thinking and more effectively plan evidence based instruction.
Date: Oct 21, 2013
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Introduction to the New Work Sampling Online
Presenter: Misty Sprague
The Work Sampling System is a proven performer in early childhood learning. Join us for this hour-long session, in which you will get a first hand look at the streamlined and more efficient Work Sampling Online.
Date: Sep 03, 2013
