Transcript Using CIITS to Create Common School & District Assessments Copyright © 2011 Schoolnet, Inc.

Using CIITS to Create
Common School &
District Assessments
Copyright © 2011 Schoolnet, Inc. All rights reserved.
Intro to CIITS
What is currently available in CIITS?
Deconstructed Standards – accessible by all users
Student information - accessible by those who directly
teach the student and campus/district leadership
Resources and tools to support teachers in the process of
formative assessment
Resources and tools to support district and campus
leadership in creating interim and common assessments
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Learning Objectives
Consider best practices for naming and creating tests
at the district and school levels
Understand the different stages of building a test in
CIITS
Create assessment items
Create Common Assessments manually and by using
the Item Bank
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Benefits of the Assessment
Admin Module in CIITS
Districts, schools and teachers may create and administer
assessments online using CIITS
District and Campus Leadership can:
− Build assessments using items from an item bank or by
creating new items.
− Schedule assessments for administration at the district,
campus, or classroom level.
− Monitor the collection of results.
− Generate and analyze reports related to student
responses in the Classrooms and School & District
Data modules.
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Two Types of Tests
Benchmark (Common)
Classroom
Results in School &
District Data and
Classrooms
Tests created at the
district, region or
school level for the
purpose of institutionwide data collection
Results only appear in
Classrooms
Tests created for the
purpose of classroom
use
Items can be teachercreated or selected
from an item bank
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Benchmark (Common Assessment)
Performance Analysis
School & District Data
(institution reporting)
Per-standard
performance reporting
– Class comparisons
– Teacher comparisons
– School comparisons
Item analysis
Proficiency reporting
Performance level
distribution reporting
Avg. % correct: compare
Classrooms (class-based
reporting)
Per-standard
performance reporting
• Compare class to school at any
level of the standards hierarchy
Item analysis
Year-to-date skill
summary
Compare results by
administration
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TEST CREATION &
TEST STAGES
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Online Testing Overview
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2
Create test
Schedule
Test
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Tests
administered
to students
online
4
Results
collected
online
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Performance
data
available for
analysis
Session 1: Step 1:
Create test items
Session 2: Steps 2-4: Schedule, Administer, and Score
Session 3: Step 5:
Review Results
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Navigate in Assessment Admin
with the Sub Menu
Dashboard is the default Assessment
Admin home page in Dashboard.
Use Create to add items, passages and
tests
Use Track Completion Rates to
monitor the result collection progress of
In Progress and Complete tests
Locate all your tests in Find a Test ––
past, present and drafts
Find an Item or Passage serves as
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the item repository
Test Planning
Discuss naming conventions for assessments: For
example:
Subject
Grade
Test Title
School Year
Math 6 CDB 1 2011-2012
Math 6 CDB 1 M 2011-2012
Modified
Discuss workflow: Will you create items and then build
tests or do you want to build a test for which the items are
already identified?
Discuss who will do what: item creation, test creation,
scheduling/assigning tests, monitoring collection of
results.
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LOCATING, CREATING, &
EDITING ITEMS
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Locating Items in Item
Central
‘Layer’ filters to locate desired items, such as by
keyword, grade and subject
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Item Detail
View item usage history
Edit if permissioned to do so
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Creating Items: Key Facts
Types: multiple choice, gridded response, T/F, open response
One subject, one right answer only in order to support
reporting
Alerts: help you build an error-free item
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Using Images in Test
Questions
Import image file: copy and paste not supported
As a best practice, keep images small, both in file size
and dimension.
If you want to gather images all at once, create a folder
on a network or local drive. Develop a file naming
convention so you can easily locate the right image for
each question.
The Image icon opens your file chooser – navigate to
the file, highlight it and click Open.
For best results, resize before uploading.
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Passages
You can associate any question with a passage
Once you create a passage, you can select and
associate it with additional questions
The passage feature can be used with images that
you want to use with multiple test questions
As a best practice, create reading passages as text,
not images as text, as resizing can make them
difficult to read
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Rubric
You can associate any open Response question with
a Rubric
Once you create a Rubric, you can select and
associate it with additional questions
The Standard associated with the Rubric will become
the Primary Standard of the Open Response Item
Rubrics must be associated to a Subject, Grade
Level, and Standard.
A Rubric must have multiple levels
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CREATING COMMON
ASSESSMENTS
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Ways to Build a Test
Ideal for teachers building
quick assessments for
classroom use.
Ideal for creating Common
(Benchmark) Assessments for
use across a district/campus.
“Makes the creation of standards-based assessments fast and easy,
offering educators more opportunities to create frequent assessments that
can be used for formative purposes to inform instruction.”
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Define Your Test
Test Name cannot be
changed, once created.
Multiple Test Categories
available to support
common district, campus,
and classroom
assessments.
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Add Content to Your Test
For each item on your test:
Select Lookup in Item Central to locate an item you have
already created and saved or to find an item from the Item Bank
- OR Create a new item.
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Test Stages
Private Draft: only you (test creator) can view/edit this test
Public Draft: test can be viewed/edited by all with the ability to create
common district assessments or common campus assessments.
Ready to Schedule: test can be viewed, but can no longer be edited
Scheduled: test dates have been set and test has been assigned to
specific courses/grade levels (will address in next session)
In Progress: testing window has begun
Completed: testing window has ended
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Wrap Up
Session Summary
Application Activity
– Create at least one common assessment using CIITS
before the next training session. This test should be
in the ‘ready to schedule’ stage.
– Contact your district IC support team if you have not
been given appropriate permissions to use this
function within CIITS.
Q and A
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