Transcript STAAR AND EOC - Region VII Education Service Center

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Accommodations will be built into regular
tests
4/7 writing and 3-8 reading schematic have
tentatively been approved
Possibly use different fonts on EOC and
modified assessments
This summer will know how many items per
objective – blueprints also to be approved by
this summer
The number of items for STAAR similar to
TAKS for grades 3-8
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Schematic for ELA EOC approved – handout
Current 7th graders will be first to take EOC in
2011-2012 school year
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English I-III
Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II
Biology, Chemistry, Physics
World Geography, World History, U.S. History
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Advisory Committees stressed preparedness
for next year and beyond
Reading not just as subject but reading on
grade level across content areas
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GRADE
2011-2012
2012-2013
2013-2014
2014-2015
9th
EOC
EOC
EOC
EOC
10th
TAKS
EOC
EOC
EOC
11th
TAKS
TAKS
EOC
EOC
12th
TAKS
TAKS
TAKS
EOC
In 2010-2011 (spring 2011) 9th grade
students will take TAKS, option to take
ELA EOC.
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Focus on new assessment is fewer,
cleaner/deeper
New assessments are linked to CCRS
New assessments will have a “core” of TEKS
◦ Core TEKS defined as those TEKS considered critical
for success in current grade or course and
important for preparedness in grade or course that
follows
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Will focus on these “core” TEKS each year,
with other TEKS rotating into assessments
across years/administrations
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33-35% of curriculum in reading is
considered “core.”
Rotation items will be assessed, but will
rotate in and out. These items are not critical
to preparedness.
Students will not be able to pass the
assessment if teachers only focus on “core”
TEKS.
When completing assessments, TEA worked
backward with ELA EOC III and went down to
grade 3. Even 3rd grade supports CCRS.
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3 Reading Objectives:
◦ Vocabulary and Cross-Multiple with genres
 Grades 3-4 details and main ideas in this objective,
but no details in upper grades
◦ Literacy Genre
◦ Expository – all informational and persuasive genres
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Writing Objectives:
◦ Composition
◦ Revision
◦ Editing
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Some TEKS will not be tested (research)
Persuasive Reading – not in 3rd or 4th –
possibly in 5th and 6th (rotational)
EOC - 50% reading/writing
◦ 25% revision/editing
◦ 25% composition
◦ 50% reading
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Composite made up of reading/writing
Writing prompts – literary and expository
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Informational booklets – online by August 1st
in 2011:
◦ Grades 3-8 and EOC
◦ 4/7 Writing
◦ Social Studies 8, 10 and EOC
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Will re-conceptualize information every year.
Will be refined as go through assessment
process.
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Embedded field test – no separate standalone field tests
Advanced High School course readiness
measure for ELA I & II
CCRS Measure for ELA III
No gate keeper – students don’t have to make
a 2 to pass test
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Two-composition design:
◦ 1 page essays
◦ Different types of prompts used
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Personal Narrative
1st person – personal narrative with extension
Literary
Expository
Persuasive and analytic
◦ Revision and editing will be assessed separately
◦ Field test embedded for grades 7 and EOC
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Assessments for 4/7 writing administered
over 2 days
Grade 4 – writing personal experience
Grade 7 – writing about important experience
and explain why this experience is important
or consequences of actions – building
extension
EOC – ELA III analytic composition will have
reading attached (i.e. Op Ed)
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Writing conferencing situation in stem:
◦ 4 items per piece in 4th
◦ 5 items per piece in 7th and EOC
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Examples for revision:
◦ “Andrea wants to strengthen controlling idea. What
sentence can she add to introduction to do this.”
◦ “John wants to use more specific word in sentence
20 to make clearer. What word use to replace ___”
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Students need to know purpose of editing
and revision – not just in isolation
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Plan is to embed field test in 7th writing and EOC.
Separate field test every 3 years (over 2 days)
4th grade – field test will not write 3 essays
7th grade – not approved during April
Rubrics
◦ May have 2 rubrics – 1 for each type of composition literary, persuasive or analytic
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Also re-writing open-ended rubric
◦ Students will not have to support everything they say
about text. Do bring overall text evidence for overall
validity.
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Genres Assessed:
◦ Literary strand – fiction, literary, non-fiction, poetry
and drama (drama begins in 4th)
◦ Informational strand – expository and persuasive
(persuasive begins in 5th)
◦ Procedural elements embedded in information
pieces and media literacy
◦ Grades 3-8 developing published pieces – poetry,
drama, expository from children’s literature and
magazine
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Literary non-fiction includes biographies and
auto-biography at grades 3-5 (no memoirs)
Poetry in grade 3 through EOC
Drama – readers’ theatre in grades 4 and 5
Single pieces and pairs included every year –
pairs beginning in 4th grade
◦ Pairs will include any combination of genres eligible
for particular grade
◦ Pairs will have deep thematic link
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Pieces on assessment will be different lengths
Text based on overall word maximum rather
than on maximum per piece.
Different number of questions attached to
different length of pieces
4-5 pieces per assessment dependent on
length of each piece
Figure 19 important to assessments
◦ Summary, main idea and details Student
Expectations in expository grades 3-EOC III
◦ Plot summary also in Figure 19
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Sensory language – not attached to any
strand or genre in TEKS
Sensory language in persuasive reading,
drama and poetry
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