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Transitioning to a Balanced Assessment System
Overview
• Professional Development in
Assessment
• Smarter Balanced Logistics
Priorities
• Increase educator and administrator assessment literacy
• Help educators connect the Idaho Core Standards to the Smarter Balanced Assessment System
Professional Development in Assessment
Assessment Literacy
• Formative AssessmentAn instructional process that provides real-time feedback to adjust teaching and learning to improve student outcomes.
• Interim AssessmentPeriodic tests used to evaluate student knowledge, skills, and standing at specific points along a curriculum or course.
• Summative AssessmentTests given at the end of an instructional period to make final determinations about student knowledge, skills, and standing
A Balanced Assessment System
Idaho Core State Standards
specify K-12 expectations for college and career readiness
All students leave
high school college
and career ready
Teachers and schools have
information and tools they need
to improve teaching and
learning
Interim assessmentsFlexible, open, used for
action feedback
Digital LibraryTeacher resources in formative assessmentto improve instruction
Summative assessments
Benchmarked to college and career readiness
Assessment Literacy
The Power of Assessment Webinar Series
• 12 Modules on Assessment Literacy
• Key Topics• Understanding formative and interim assessment• Providing student feedback• Grading• Understanding assessment targets• Target-method match• Test item writing guidelines• Resources for preparing for ICS and SBAC• Conceptual framework for balanced assessment
http://www.sde.idaho.gov/site/formativeInterim/professionalDev.htm
Assessment Literacy
Conceptual Framework
Assessment Claims
Broad statements of the assessment system‘s learning outcomes, each of which requires evidence.
Assessment Targets
Explanations of the types of data that will support interpretations of competence towards achievement of the claims.
Interpretations
Achievement Level Descriptors (e.g. definitions of Advanced, Proficient, etc.)
Connecting Standards to Assessment
Connecting Standards to Assessment
Implications for Instruction Webinars:
Connecting the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics and the Smarter Balanced Assessment
http://www.sde.idaho.gov/site/common/commonCorePD.htm
Connecting Standards to Assessment
Smarter Balanced Logistics
2012-2013
Pilot
2013-2014
Practice Test Field Test
2014-2015
Operational
Smarter Balanced Timeline
Smarter Balanced Logistics
• 124 schools in Idaho administered the Pilot Test in Spring 2013
• Pilots were given in different school sizes, grade levels and regions • For example: 493 tests at Canyon Ridge High School in
Twin Falls to 6 tests completed in Bliss
• SBAC is conducting a Pilot Test Data Review this fall
• Reviewers will evaluate items and make recommendations to “accept as is,” “revise and re-field test,” or “reject” with rationale• Idaho educators are participating in this process
Pilot Test
Smarter Balanced Logistics
Practice Tests
• Now available for each subject area and all grade levels.• 30 items per grade / subject area• Fixed form tests
• Practice Tests could be used for the following: • Lesson planning • Professional development • Communication efforts with stakeholders
• Practice tests are not intended for evaluating student readiness for SBAC
Access the Practice Tests online at: http://www.smarterbalanced.org/pilot-test/
Smarter Balanced Logistics
Consortium Goals• Determine cut scores (advanced, proficient, etc.)• Calibrate test items (easy, medium, hard)• Testing Logistics
Idaho Goals• Give Idaho students the opportunity to experience a
new test before it becomes operational• Avoid double-testing• Avoid giving a non-ICS aligned test in 2014
Field Test
NO STUDENT SCORES WILL COME FROM FIELD TEST!
Smarter Balanced Logistics
Field Test• All students in grades 3-11 must participate
• Excludes 11th graders who have not yet passed ISAT• 95% participation rule still applies• 10th graders who did not pass ISAT in 9th grade should be
placed on alternate path to graduation• School accountability determinations will roll forward
• Field Test Window: April 1 – May 16
• Technology Readiness Tool• Devices, Students, Network• Rooms, Proctors, etc.• www.techreadiness.net • Complete survey by Oct. 31, 2013
Contacts
Dr. TJ BlissDirector of Assessment and Accountability
Angela Hemingway Statewide Assessment and Accountability Coordinator
Nancy Thomas Price Interim/Formative Assessment Coordinator
