Calculators and Keyboarding

Office of AssessmentOctober 22, 2014

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Calculator Policy for Smarter Mathematics Assessments Grades 3–5

http://www.smarterbalanced.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Calculator-Availability-by-Grade-Level.pdf

For students taking the online Smarter Mathematics Assessment, no external calculators are permitted unless explicitly stated in the Smarter Balanced Usability, Accessibility, and Accommodations Guidelines and the Delaware Accessibility Guidelines document.

Grades 3–5 Calculator Availability – The Smarter Mathematics Assessments for grades 3–5 do not allow for calculator usage.

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Calculator Policy for Smarter Mathematics Assessments Grades 6–8

Divided into 2 sections—calculator available and calculator not available

Grade 6 – allows an embedded, online, 4-function calculator during calculator available section

Grades 7–8 – allows an embedded, online, scientific calculator during the calculator available section

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Calculator Policy for Smarter Mathematics Assessment – Grade 11

Divided into 2 sections—calculator available and calculator not available

High school assessment allows an embedded, online calculator with scientific, regression, and graphing capabilities in the calculator available section

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Online Calculators for Smarter Mathematics Tests (Grades 6–8)

Grade 6 – 4-Function Calculator Grades 7–8 –Scientific Calculator

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Online Calculators for Smarter Mathematics Tests (High School)

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Calculator Discussion

Online calculator is available for classroom use or practice at http://sbac.portal.airast.org/practice-test/calculators/ (must be in Mozilla Firefox to access them

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Measurement Conversions and Formulas

Allowed with particular item type Embedded in item stem or stimulus for

Performance Task(PT) at specific grade

Not a separate cheat sheet available in testing platform

Given conversions or formulas aligned to the intent of the Standards

Document available on DeSSA Portal

Note: Smarter Guidelines are different from DCAS guidelineshttp://www.smarterbalanced.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Formulas-and-Conversions-Guidelines.pdf