Transcript Cutler Middle School February 4, 2014

Common Core State Standards/Smarter
Balanced Assessment Consortium
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Familiarize parents with Common Core State Standards
and Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium field
assessment
Overview of the L.A./Literacy CCSS and classroom
impact
Practice the Mathematics SBAC field assessment
Questions and answers
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5:30 pm Welcome and overview in media center
5:45pm one group to L.A./Literacy Presentation (room)
other group to take practice SBAC math field
assessment (room 12)
6:35 pm Groups switch locations
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How the Common Core State Standards will
help students achieve at high levels and help
them learn what they need to know to get to
graduation and beyond.
http://vimeo.com/51933492
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Building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction
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Reading, writing and speaking grounded in evidence
from text, both literary and informational
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Regular practice with complex text and its academic
language
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Focus strongly on the topics emphasized in the standards
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Coherence: Think across grade, and link topics* within
grades
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Rigor: In major topics* pursue:
◦ Conceptual understanding;
◦ Procedural skill and fluency; and
◦ Application
with equal intensity
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Grade 6 – Ratios and proportional reasoning,
early expressions and equations
Grade 7 – Ratios and proportional reasoning,
arithmetic of rational numbers
Grade 8 – Linear algebra, linear functions
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Computer Adaptive Testing
Performance Assessment
In-Class Activity
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Selected-response items
Technology-enhanced items
Constructed-response items
Performance tasks (with in class activity)
TEST TYPE
CAT
Perf. Task
Only
Total
In-Class
Activity
Total
ELA/Literacy
1:30
2:00
3:30
:30
4:00
Mathematics
2:00
1:00
3:00
:30
3:30
Total
3:30
3:00
6:30
1:00
7:30
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Times are estimates of test length for most
students. Smarter Balanced assessments are
designed as untimed tests; some students
may need and should be afforded more time
than shown in this table.
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Additional information and the powerpoints
used this evening can be found by going to
the CMS website – Shortcuts – CCSS/SBAC for
Parents.
http://www.groton.k12.ct.us/Domain/345