Wisconsin Knowledge and Concepts Examinations – Criterion Referenced Tests

1. Wisconsin Knowledge and Concepts Examinations – Criterion Referenced Tests Grades 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Test Results Summary 2007 - 2008 Assessment Seminar #1

2. WKCE-CRT Test Information • Tests Five Core Academic Areas • Reading (Grades 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8) • Language Arts (Grades 4 & 8) • Math (Grades 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8) • Science (Grades 4 & 8) • Social Studies (Grades 4 & 8)

3. WKCE-CRT Test Information • On-Demand Writing Task • Grade 4 – Descriptive • Grade 8 – Persuasive

4. WKCE-CRT Test Information • There are two types of responses that students provide: • Selected – Multiple Choice • Constructed – Short Answer, Paragraph, Student Handwritten Response

5. WKCE-CRT Test Information • Tests are changed every year or every other year depending on state funding • Objectives • Type of writing task

6. WKCE-CRT Test Information • Scoring • Four Proficiency Categories: • Advanced • Proficient • Basic • Minimal

7. WKCE-CRT Test Information • Proficiency Categories • In 1997, DPI set the original proficiency levels (cut scores) for each separate subject • In 1998, DPI revised the Language Arts cut scores • In 2002, cut scores in all subjects were changed as a result of the move to fall testing because of the state’s new grades 4 & 8 promotion policies • In 2004, cut scores in all subjects were again changed as DPI was moving away from a norm-referenced test to a criterion-referenced test. • In 2005, cut scores in all subjects were changed as DPI implemented criterion-referenced tests at grades 3 – 8.

8. WKCE-CRT Test Information • Proficiency Categories In 2005 cut scores on the new WKCE-CRT scale were established using a statistical procedure know as equipercentile equating which uses pre-existing cut scores at grades 4,8, and 10 as “anchors” for establishing new cut scores.

9. WKCE-CRT Test Information • Proficiency Categories • The four proficiency categories are set by establishing a cut-off point (cut score) in the scale score • The cut scores vary between the five subjects

10. WKCE-CRT Test Information LANGUAGE ARTS CUT SCORES

11. WKCE-CRT Test Information READING CUT SCORES

12. WKCE-CRT Test Information MATH CUT SCORES

13. WKCE-CRT Test Information SCIENCE CUT SCORES

14. WKCE-CRT Test Information SOCIAL STUDIES CUT SCORES

15. WKCE-CRT Test Information • Scale Scores • A scale score is a score on a numeric scale with intervals of equal size. • In Wisconsin, the “scale” is applied to all students taking the WKCE-CRT in a particular subject at a particular grade level, making it possible to compare scores from different groups of students or individuals from year to year. • Plotting the mean (average) scale score for each grade within a district for successive years allows relative academic growth to be tracked from one year to the next.

16. WKCE-CRT Test Information • Scale Scores • Evaluation of trends overtime within a group of students and across grades can help education planning in a variety of ways. • Scale scores within a content area may also be compared across grades and over time, providing some evidence of the success of programs if students served are in the tested group.

17. WKCE-CRT Test Information • Scale Scores DUE TO THE NEW SCALE ON WHICH WISCONSIN’S CUSTOMIZED TESTS ARE NOW REPORTED, THE FALL 2005 WKCE-CRT SCORES ARE THE BASELINE (YEAR 1) DATA FOR LONGITUDINAL COMPARISONS.

18. WKCE-CRT Test Information • Scale Scores EACH CONTENT AREA IS SCALED SEPARATELY; THEREFORE, THE SCALE SCORES FOR ONE CONTENT AREA CANNOT BE COMPARED TO ANOTHER CONTENT AREA.

19. Mean Scale Score Information Scale scores within a subject area may be compared across grades and over time providing some evidence of success of programs. Scale scores are NOT equivalent across subject areas because each subject area test is scaled separately.

20. Walworth Grade 3 Mean Scale Scores

21. Walworth Grade 3 Test Results 51% 35% 10% 4%

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