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Kansas State Department of Education
June 23, 2014
 The transition assessment for ELA and mathematics in
Spring 2014 was the same as we have always planned.
 Spring of 2015, when we would have had SBAC for the first
time, we will have an enhanced Kansas assessment.
 By Spring of 2016, we will be very close to where we would
have been with SBAC with difference due to choices made
in Kansas.
 Transition Assessment
• Delivered on KITE
• Aligned with Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for math,
reading, and writing conventions
• Follows similar blueprint to SBAC
• Machine-scorable items only
• No performance tasks
• No writing prompt
• No listening items
 Reporting
• No student, building, or district level data for ELA and
mathematics
 DLM Field Test for ELA and mathematics alternate
 KELPA
 Old science assessment modified to include only items
aligned to NGSS
 Alternate science portfolio
 cPass
 The transitional test will serve as the backbone for the new
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Kansas College and Career Ready Assessment
Enhancements
• Listening section
• Writing prompt
• Math performance tasks
The core machine-scorable part of the test will be parallel to what
was administered in 2014, but we will refresh the item pool.
We will field test the enhancements.
Accountability for 2015 will be based on the core portion of the
test.
Schools and districts will receive feedback on the field test
portions to help gauge student readiness on the full
set of standards.
 Items added to science assessment aligned to NGSS;
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grades 4, 7, and 11. Alternate science is DLM pilot.
Field test writing performance items in ELA, science, and
history/government at selected grade levels.
Field test history/government assessment; grades 6, 8, and
high school.
KELPA-P administered for ELL students. 10% will
participate in field test for ELPA 21.
DLM fully operational for ELA and mathematics alternate.
cPass
 After analyzing the field-test items, we will create the best
form possible that includes all features of our future
assessment.
 We will set new achievement standards (cut scores and
performance level descriptors) based on that form.
 Using those new cut scores, we will set new AMOs and
communicate the new targets to schools and districts.
 Now we have a fully enhanced test that covers all of the
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Kansas College and Career Ready Standards.
ELA and mathematics will have adaptive features included.
DLM for ELA and mathematics alternate
ELPA 21 operational for ELL students
History/government operational in even years
Portfolio for history/government alternate
Science field test; change to grades 5, 8, and 11
DLM field test for science alternate.
cPass
 Summative assessment
• ELA (complete in 2016)
• Mathematics (complete in 2016)
• History/government (complete in 2016); alternate
portfolio.
• Science (complete in 2017)
• DLM for ELA, mathematics, science
• ELPA 21
 Formative tools are developed for all subject areas with item
banks for teachers to use to build their own test forms.
 Writing Performance Task
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Grades 3-8 and high school
Covers both ELA and Science or History/Government standards
Students in grades 6, 8, and 11 would only need to write one essay
aligned to both History/government and literacy standards
Two rubrics provide two scores—one for each test
Same idea for science
 Mathematics Performance Task
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Grades 3-8 and high school
 Scoring
• With a writing prompt and math performance task, we will
have student responses that need to be scored by hand.
Scoring models
 Fully distributed scoring
• Teachers score on the computer using KITE. An
independent activity.
 School or regional based scoring
• Teachers score as a group and enter scores later
 Scoring center
• Only a few teachers come to Lawrence for several
days to score all student papers.
 Listening requires headphones and additional caching
 Districts and schools will need to purchase
headphones for every student or ask students to bring
in their own (think ear buds)
 Streaming audio will put a huge load on the system, so
you will need to work with IT to prepare for that in
2014–2015.