Smarter Balanced – An OverviewElementary Early ReleaseJanuary 7, 2015

Learning Targets I can identify and describe the three

components of the Smarter Balanced Assessment System

I can describe how and why the results of the Smarter Balanced summative assessment are likely to be different than previous state assessment results

Learning Targets

Topics Smarter Balanced Assessment System Digital Library Interim Assessments

ICA (Interim Comprehensive Assessment) IAB (Interim Assessment Blocks)

Summative Assessments Across the grade levels “Parts and Pieces” Preparing for New Test Scores

One-Stop Shopping: The Smarter Balanced Portal (http://wa.portal.airast.org)

Topics

A Balanced Assessment System

Assessment System

Assessment System

Washington State K-12 Learning Standards

Smarter Balanced –• Formative• Interim• Summative

Digital LibrarySmarter Balanced Assessment System

Digital Library

Smarter Balanced Digital Library

Digital Library

Smarter Balanced Digital Library

Digital Library

Smarter Balanced Digital Library

Digital Library

Smarter Balanced Digital Library

Digital Library

Digital Library

Interim AssessmentsSmarter Balanced Assessment System

Interim Assessments

Interim Assessment Options

Interim Assessment

Interim Comprehensive

Assessment (ICA)

Interim Assessment

Blocks (IAB)

Interim Assessments

Interim Assessment Options Interim Comprehensive Assessments

(ICAs) use the same blueprint as the summative assessments, assess the same range of standards, and provide scores on the same scale.

Interim Assessment Blocks (ICBs) focus on smaller sets of related concepts and provide more detailed information for instructional purposes. There are between five and seventeen blocks per subject per grade.

Interim Assessments

IABs for ELAInterim Assessment Blocks (IAB) Grades 3-5

1 Read Literary Texts

2 Read Informational Texts

3 Edit/Revise

4 Brief Writes

5 Listen/Interpret

6 Research

7 Narrative Performance Task* Gr 4 and 5 only in 2014-2015

8 Opinion Performance Task* N/A in 2014-2015

9 Informational Performance Task* Gr 3 only in 2014-2015

* This is a full Performance Task as students experience in the summative assessment

Interim Assessments

IABs for mathematics

Interim Assessment Blocks (IAB)Grade 3

1 Operations and Algebraic Thinking

2Numbers and Operations in Base 10 Not available in 2014-2015

3 Fractions

4 Measurement and Data

5 Mathematics Performance Task*

* This is a full Performance Task as students experience in the summative assessment

Interim Assessments

Interim Assessment Blocks (IAB)Grade 4

1 Operations and Algebraic Thinking

2 Numbers and Operations in Base 10

3 Fractions

4 Geometry- Not available in 2014-2015

4 Measurement and Data

5 Mathematics Performance Task*

* This is a full Performance Task as students experience in the summative assessment

Interim Assessments

IABs for mathematics

Interim Assessment Blocks (IAB)Grade 5

1 Operations and Algebraic Thinking

2 Numbers and Operations in Base 10

3 Fractions

4 Geometry

5 Measurement and Data - Not available in 2014-2015

6Mathematics Performance Task* - Not available in 2014-2015

* This is a full Performance Task as students experience in the summative assessment

Interim Assessments

IABs for mathematics

Interim Assessments Timeline Interim Assessments will be available…

Jan 6th – Comprehensive Interim Jan 27th – Interim Assessment Blocks

Initial release will include fixed forms; adaptive forms will be available as the item pool allows

Interim Assessments

Summative AssessmentSmarter Balanced Assessment System

Summative Assessment

Parts and Pieces Two Assessments:

ELA Math

Three Parts to each Assessment CAT: Computer Adaptive Test Classroom Activity Performance Task

Summative Assessment

What is “Covered” in the Summative Assessment?

Claims are broad

statements of the

assessment system’s learning

outcomes

Summative Assessment

What is “Covered” in the Summative Assessment?

Summative Assessment

Assessment WindowsSmarter Balanced

2015 Testing Windows

Grade 3 ELA March 10 to April 23 – online

Grades 4–8 ELA and Grades 3-8 Math

Last 12 weeks of school, but no earlier than March 10 and no later than June 15

Grade 10 ELA Last 12 weeks of school, but no earlier than March 10 and no later than June 15

Grade 11 ELA and Math Last 7 weeks of school, but no earlier than April 6 and no later than June 15

Off Grade Level (formerly called DAPE) March 10 - 26– online

Summative Assessment

Summative Assessment

Estimated Time

Summative AssessmentPreparing for New Test Scores

Summative Assessment

2015 results will set a new baseline of student performance in Washington Some people are predicting that the spring

2015 test results will see Washington students falling off a “performance cliff”, with scores dropping.

But the new tests are not comparable so we should not compare scores from one to the other. We have a new baseline!

Summative Assessment

Think of the standards and the assessment as a new target with new results….

Two people who successfully climb Mt Rainer (at 14,000 ft), will find Mt McKinley (at 20,000 ft) more challenging.

Some will be able to meet the challenge, some will be close and some who previously were able to summit Rainier will not be able to summit McKinley at first.

Summative Assessment

Preparing for New Test Scores Smarter Balanced assessments measure the full range of the

Common Core State Standards. They are designed to let teachers and parents know whether students are on track to be college- and career-ready by the time they graduate.

Because the new standards set higher expectations for students--and the new tests are designed to assess student performance against these higher expectations--our definition of grade level performance is higher than it used to be.

As a result, it’s likely that fewer students will meet grade level standards, especially for the first few years. Results should improve as students have additional years of instruction aligned to the new standards and become better equipped to meet the challenges they present.

This does not mean that our students are “doing worse” than they did last year. Rather, the scores represent a “new baseline” that provides a more accurate indicator for educators, students, and parents as they work to meet the rigorous demands of college and career readiness.

Summative Assessment

Let’s Take a Step Back – in Time AND Perspective Jeopardy!

The category is Washington State Assessment 101

Answer: 1996-1997Question: What year was WASL first administered?

Answer: 28% Question: What percentage of Camas fourth graders

met proficiency on the Math WASL in 1996-97?

Answer: 71% Question: What percentage of Camas fourth graders

met proficiency on the Math MSP in 2012-13?

Summative Assessment

Summative Assessment

Summative Assessment

Summative Assessment

61%

Smarter Balanced + Higher Ed Washington has had unprecedented

movement to use mandatory high school tests in college placement

Agreement to provide access to credit bearing courses to 11th graders who score a 3 or 4 on the Smarter Balanced ELA and math tests Washington’s Community Colleges Washington’s Baccalaureates

Recently announced - WACT will be using scores of 3 and 4 for Running Start placement

Summative Assessment

Smarter Balanced Portal

Smarter Balanced Portal: http://wa.portal.airast.org

Learning Targets I can identify and describe the three

components of the Smarter Balanced Assessment System

I can describe how and why the results of the Smarter Balanced summative assessment are likely to be different than previous state assessment results

Learning Targets

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Smarter Balanced – An OverviewElementary Early ReleaseJanuary 7, 2015