Transcript Smarter Balanced Assessment

Smarter Balanced Assessment
Parent’s Guide to Understanding
Parents’ Guide to Student Success
The Guide includes:
•Key items that children should be
learning in English language arts and
mathematics in each grade.
•Activities that parents can do at home
to support their child's learning.
•Methods for helping parents build
stronger relationships with their child's
teacher.
http://www.pta.org/4446.htm
Common Core
Common
CoreState
State Standards
Standards
Washington State Assessment System
 MSP is now replaced with SMARTER Balanced
(SBAC) Testing System
 Last year SVSD took part in the pilot of the SBAC
• SBAC Assessments:
• English/Language Arts and Math: Grade 3–8 and 11*
• Science exams will still be the MSP for grades 5 and 8
• Science exams are required under ESEA but are not yet included in SBAC
Building Background Knowledge
 Who/what is “Smarter Balanced”?
 What is the “Smarter Balanced Assessment System”?
 What do Smarter Balanced Assessments (SBAs) look like?
Q: Who/what is “Smarter Balanced”?
Common Core Standards State Initiative
46 states adopted the CCSS in ELA/Literacy and math
+ Race to the Top Assessment Program
Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) – 26 states
PARCC – 20 states plus Washington DC
Key Elements and Principles
Measure individual student’s:
 Proficiency in Common Core State Standards
 Growth
 “on track”-ness to college- and career-readiness
 Readiness, at end of high school, for credit-bearing
entry level postsecondary courses
Assessment Consortia Member States
As of August 16, 2013
Smarter Balanced
PARCC
Both
26 states
20 states & DC
Pennsylvania
Washington,
DC
Hawaii
Neither: Alabama, Minnesota,
Nebraska, Texas, Utah, Virginia
Q: What is the Smarter Balanced Assessment System?
English Language Arts/Literacy and Mathematics, Grades 3 – 8 and High School*
Last 12 weeks of school year
DIGITAL LIBRARY of formative tools, processes and exemplars; released items and tasks; model
curriculum units; educator training; professional development tools and resources; practice tests;
scorer training modules; and teacher collaboration tools.
PERFORMANCE
TASKS
• 1 ELA/Literacy
Task
• 1 Math Task
COMPUTER
ADAPTIVE
ASSESSMENT
• ELA/Literacy
• Math
Retake Option
Q: What is the Smarter Balanced Assessment
System?
Computer Adaptive Assessment
Last 12 weeks of year*
Multiple item types
(Constructed response and technology enhanced)
- Selected response
- Fill-in tables
- Drag and drop
- Short text
- Matching
- Graphing
Adaptive delivery
Can span up to two grade levels up or down to gain
accuracy and clearer profile of strengths and needs.
COMPUTER
ADAPTIVE
ASSESSMENT
Re-take option
Q: What is the Smarter Balanced Assessment System?
Performance Tasks
Last 12 weeks of year*
 One ELA task & one math task per year
 Helps assess beyond basic knowledge
and skills
 Combination of machine and
teacher/human scoring
 Results by end of school year
PERFORMANCE
TASKS
• ELA/Literacy
• Math
Smarter Balanced
Performance Task Specifications
Information Processing/
Constructed Response Items
•
•
Short Answer
Increasing in rigor
High
Cognitive
Demand
“Stimulus”
•Text
•Graphs, data sets
•Photos, media
•Etc.
•Essay, Story
•Quantitative Problem
•Oral presentation
•Scoring Rubric
Item B
Mid
Low
Item C
Performance
Task
Item A
Part 1: Student reads research
sources (stimuli) and responds
to prompts.
Part 2: Student
plans, writes, and
revises his/her full
essay, story,
quantitative
problem, or….
The “What”:
ELA and Math Content Shifts
 Shifts in ELA
1. Building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction and informational
texts in addition to literature
2. Reading and writing grounded in evidence from the text
3. Regular practice with complex text and its academic vocabulary
These apply to content area (social studies, science, and technical subject) teachers as well as to
English teachers.
 Shifts in Mathematics
1. Focus: 2-3 topics focused on deeply in each grade
2. Coherence: Concepts logically connected from one grade to the next and
linked to other major topics within the grade
3. Rigor: Fluency with arithmetic, application of knowledge to real world
situations, and deep understanding of mathematical concepts
What do the
Smarter Balanced Assessments
look like?
Sample Items
Smarter Balanced Website
 http://www.smarterbalanced.org/sample-items-and-performance-tasks/
Online Practice Test
ELA Performance Task
1.
http://sbac.portal.airast.org/practice-test/
2.
At bottom of page, click Practice Test icon
3.
Click Sign In
4.
Select a grade level, then click Yes
5.
Click test
6.
Adjust settings (or not), click Select
7.
Review selection and click Yes, Start My Test
8.
Review Test Instructions and Help
9.
Click Begin Test Now
SBA Practice Test
Scoring Guides with Rubrics
Go to: http://sbac.portal.airast.org/practice-test/
• Click Resources and Documentation to view scoring guides for all
practice test items including Performance Tasks.
ELA Comparison
Washington State & Smarter Balanced
Similarities
Differences
Multiple Choice/Selected Response
Computer Adaptive
Short Answer/Constructed Response
Listening Items
Online
Text Complexity
Essay Writing
Brief Write, Revise and Edit
Performance Tasks
Sample ELA Performance Task:
Grade 4 Part 1
Part 1:
Engaging
Summary of Task
Steps to follow
Directions
for beginning /
taking notes
Sample ELA Performance Task:
Grade 4 Part 1
Constructed
Response
questions to
support students’
analysis/synthesis
of stimuli
Sample ELA Performance Task: Grade 4 Part 2
Brief,
engaging
prompt
How essay
will be scored
3 concise steps
to complete
performance
assessment
Technology Enhanced
Vocabulary Grade 4 Item
http://sampleitems.smarterbalanced.org/itempreview/sbac/ELA.htm
Listening Task
http://sampleitems.smarterbalanced.org/itempreview/sbac/ELA.htm
Non-Traditional Selected Response
STIMULU
Item
S
STEM
A multiplication problem is shown below.
17 ×× 12
12
17
Which model(s) below could represent the solution to this problem?
Select all that apply.
A.
B.
C.
(1×1)+(1×7)+(1×2)+(2
×7)
D.
E.
F.
(17×2)+(17×1
)
Comparing Technology-Enabled
and Technology-Enhanced Items
Gregory is installing tile on a rectangular floor.
• He is using congruent square tiles that each have a side length of ½ foot.
• The area of the floor is 22 square feet.
• The width of the floor is 4 feet.
Use the grid and the tile below to model the floor.
What is the length, in feet, of the floor?
5.5 feet
Draw a line of symmetry through
the figure below.
Sample Item
•
Swimmers
Scoring Rule
Scoring Rule: Logic used to score student response
Which number is both a factor of 100
and a multiple of 5?
Scoring Rule:
A. 4
If student response = C, then correct
B. 40
Otherwise, incorrect
C. 50
D. 500
Classify each shape below based on whether it
contains at least one pair of parallel sides.
Scoring Rule:
If object 1 = B, 2 = A, 3 = B, 4 = A,
5 = A, then correct
Otherwise, incorrect
Technology-Enhanced Items
 Specialized interaction
 May have digital media for stimulus
 Same requirements as selected and constructed response
items
 Students manipulate information
 Defined responses
Technology-Enabled Items
 Digital Media
 Response Types
 Video
 Selected
 Animation
 Constructed
 Sound
 Interactive tools
What about English learners and students with
disabilities?
In September, SBAC adopted Usability, Accessibility, and Accommodations
Guidelines “to ensure next-generation assessments meet the needs of English
language learners and students with disabilities.”
www.smarterbalanced.org
The development of the guidelines included feedback from states, advisory
panels on English language learners and students with disabilities, and
national organizations.
References and Resources
www.smarterbalanced.org
To access: Practice Tests, Accommodations Guidelines, and all things Smarter
Balanced
www.smarterbalanced.org/resources-events/faqs/
www.k12center.org
http://wa.portal.airast.org/resources/?section=2
www.achievethecore.org
www.teachingchannel.org