Transcript English Language Arts Update Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP) 10/25/06

Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP)
Michigan Merit Exam (MME)
English Language Arts Update
10/25/06
Grade 3 Reading Assessment
• Measuring state-assessable reading GLCE for K-2
• Paired reading selections
– Text 1 (8 m.c. items) + Text 2 (8 m.c. items)
– 5 cross-text m.c. items
– 6-point Response to Reading (2 pages max)
• Independent reading selection
Text 3 + 8 m.c. items
• Total = 35 reading points
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Grades 4-8 Reading Assessments
• Measuring state-assessable reading GLCE
• Paired reading selections
– Text 1 (8 m.c. items) + Text 2 (8 m.c. items)
– 5 cross-text m.c. items
– 6-point Response to Reading (2 pages max)
• Independent reading selection
Text 3 + 8 m.c. items
• Linking text from previous grade + 8 m.c. items
• Total = 43 reading points
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Grades 4-8 Linking Reading Texts
• Linking texts = Text 1, 2, or 3 from previous
grade with the associated 8 m.c. items
• Approved for and field-tested in lower grade
• Not a mistake
• To study growth for groups of students
• Linking items are scored, and reported, but do
not count toward the students’ scale scores or
proficiency levels
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Grades 3-8 Reading Items/Domains
Grade 3 – 35 total points across 3 texts
29 m.c. items = WS* + NT + IT + CM + CS
6-point Response to Reading (CM)
Grades 4-8 – 43 total points across 4 texts
37 m.c. items = WS + NT + IT + CM + CS
6-point Response to Reading (CM)
* GLCE code
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Writing: Grades 3-8
Writing from Knowledge and Experience
• 6-point holistic rubric
• Students choose genre, format of response
• Two pages max
• No resources
• Scored as first draft, not polished response
Student writing sample
• Peer response (4-point rubric)
• Five multiple-choice (m.c.) editing and revising items
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S07: HSTs in Reading and Writing
Seniors get one last shot at MEAP
– Reading
• Texts 1 and 2 with nine associated m.c.
items each
• Cross-text: 7 m.c. items, plus one response
– Writing
• Writing from Knowledge and Experience
• Reporting and Reflecting
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MME Reading Components
MME Total
Reading Score
ACT Reading
40 multiple-choice
items
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ACT WorkKeys
Reading for Information
33 multiple-choice items
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ACT Reading
• 4 texts, 40 questions, 35 minutes
– Literary
– Social science
– Humanities
– Natural science
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ACT Reading Items
• Items ask students to:
– determine main ideas and significant details
– understand sequence of events
– make comparisons
– comprehend cause-effect relationships
– determine meaning in context of words,
phrases, statements
– draw generalizations
– analyze author's/narrator's voice/method
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ACT WorkKeys: Reading for Information
• 33 items, 45 minutes
– measures skills used when reading
and using written text to do a job
– memos, letters, directions, signs,
notices, bulletins, policies, regulations
– not necessarily well-written or
targeted to appropriate audience
– all text, no graphics
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MME Writing Components
MME Total Writing Score
ACT Writing Test
MEAP Social Studies Response
6 pt. ACT rubric
X 2 ACT scorers = 12 pts.
Writing Score = 6 pt. MME rubric
X 2 MME scorers = 12 pts.
ACT English Test
75 multiple-choice items
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ACT Writing
• Persuasive writing
• Given issue
• Given two perspectives on issue
• 6-pt. rubric
• Scored by two ACT scorers
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ACT English
75 multiple-choice items, 45 minutes
Includes items that ask students:
– to be aware of writing style
– about specific portions of underlined text and
elements of writing, such as tone or emphasis,
in that portion
– about whole sections or whole passages with
no underlined parts
– about more than one aspect of writing
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Double-scoring the Social Studies Response:
How Does It Work?
For MME Social Studies:
• Scored by two
independent MME
scorers, using standard
MEAP social studies 5pt. rubric
• Scored for social
studies content
• Contributes to MME
social studies total
score
For MME Writing :
• Scored by two
independent MME
scorers, using new
MME 6-pt. persuasive
writing rubric
• Scored for persuasive
writing
• Contributes to MME
total writing score
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Tips for Improvement
•Teach your curriculum year-round!
•Don’t limit yourselves to teaching the assessable content.
•Don’t “drill and kill” just before the test!
•Watch for “Released Items” on our website
(www.michigan.gov/meap)
•Compare scoring guides to the rumors about how “you,
too, can raise your MEAP scores.”
•Call us to check on rumors. Rumor control is a big part of
our job!
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Contact Information
Jane Faulds
English Language Arts Assessment Consultant,
MDE/MEAP
[email protected]
For more information:
• about MEAP, go to: www.michigan.gov/meap
• about MME, go to: www.michigan.gov/oeaa
• about ACT, go to: www.act.org
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