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Implications of the Smarter Balanced Assessment for College Readiness and Math Placement

Implications of the Smarter Balanced Assessment for College Readiness and Math Placement. William S. Moore, Ph.D., Policy Associate, SBCTC Director, Core to College Alignment & Transition Mathematics Project bmoore@sbctc.edu. Common Core State Standards.

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Implications of the Smarter Balanced Assessment for College Readiness and Math Placement

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  1. Implications of the Smarter Balanced Assessment for College Readiness and Math Placement William S. Moore, Ph.D., Policy Associate, SBCTC Director, Core to College Alignment & Transition Mathematics Project bmoore@sbctc.edu

  2. Common Core State Standards • Clear, consistent, rigorous standards in English language arts/literacy and mathematics • Knowledge and skills needed for college and career success • Developed voluntarily and cooperatively by states with input from teachers and college faculty Source: www.corestandards.org

  3. What You Probably Didn’t Know… “Obama Core is a comprehensive plan to dumb down schoolchildren so they will be obedient servants of the government and probably to indoctrinate them to accept the leftwing view of America and its history.” Phyllis Schafly, October 2012, cited by Benjamin Riley, New Schools Venture Fund, “Common Core-spiracy”

  4. Major Shifts in the CCSS:“Fewer, Higher, Clearer, Deeper” Focus: Focus strongly where the standards focus. Coherence: Think across grades and linkto major topics. Rigor: In major topics, pursue conceptual understanding, procedural skill and fluency,andapplication.

  5. Traditional U.S. Approach

  6. Focusing Attention Within Number and Operations

  7. Standards for Mathematical Practices

  8. Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium

  9. A Balanced Assessment System Summative assessments Benchmarked to college and career readiness Teachers and schools have information and tools they need to improve teaching and learning CommonCore State Standards specify K-12 expectations for college and career readiness All students leave high school college and career ready Teacher resources for formative assessment practices to improve instruction Interim assessments Flexible, open, used for actionable feedback

  10. OSPI Proposal…Summative Assessments in 2014–15 and beyond

  11. Questions Being Addressed by the Core to College Project • Do the Common Core State Standards and Smarter Balanced assessment represent a definition of college- and career-readiness that works for higher education? • Specifically, how will the 11th grade assessment results be used?

  12. 1. Definition of College Readiness Faculty Review Group consensus (both math and English): • Standards generally reflect a clear and solid notion of college readiness for entry-level courses in their disciplines • Preliminary review of Smarter Balanced details and sample items encouraging, but need to see full assessment

  13. 2. Use of the 11th Grade Assessment • Strengthen 12th Grade “Launch Year” • Encourage Dual Credit courses for students who are college-ready • Provide targeted curriculum for students who are not yet college-ready • Serve as College Readiness Indicator • Full or conditional exemption from developmental course work when entering college • Considered as another possible “data point” in admissions review

  14. Policy Framework for Grade 11 Assessment Results Note: Applies only to students who matriculate directly from high school to college.

  15. Responding to the Policy Framework • What evidence would you need to see about the assessment to give you confidence about its value as a college readiness indicator? • Assuming the assessment is valuable, what would be a reasonable expectation of evidence of continued learning in grade 12 for level 3 students to earn an exemption from precollege math?

  16. Key Clarifications of Proposed Framework • Support for Emerging Approaches to Developmental Ed: Colleges are free to permit students who score below the college content-readiness standard to enroll in credit-bearing courses • Multiple Measures of Content-Readiness: Fully supports the use of multiple measures to determine student course placement • Recommended “Cut Scores”: To be set summer 2014 after pilot and field testing • Participation agreement: No later than January 2015 • Score Expiration: Scores only valid for students who matriculate directly from high school to college

  17. Higher Education After Smarter Balanced:What Won’t Change? • High school graduation requirements • Admission standards • Most course placement (especially STEM students) • Developmental education reform

  18. Core to College Timetable Refine parameters based on pilot test Review and endorse proposal Develop specific proposal for SB use in higher education System and institutional review (Fall 2014)

  19. Resources • www.achievethecore.org • www.illustrativemathematics.org • commoncoretools.me • www.corestandards.org • http://parcconline.org/parcc-content-frameworks • http://www.smarterbalanced.org/k-12-education/common-core-state-standards-tools-resources/

  20. Questions? • For more details about Core to College in Washington, see https://sites.google.com/site/wacoretocollege/ • Slides and handouts available at http://tinyurl.com/mathconf13moore

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