MEAP-Access & MOPLS Update

1. MEAP-Access & MOPLS Update Vince Dean, Ph.D. Director, Office of Standards & Assessment Bureau of Assessment & Accountability MAASE; April 13, 2011

2. MEAP-Access & MOPLS • Today’s Topics • Update on MEAP-Access • Michigan’s Online Professional Learning System (MOPLS) • Update and Request • Common Core Assessment Consortia

3. Michigan’s Educational Assessment System

4. Federal Regulation • Alternate Assessments based on Modified Achievement Standards (AA-MAS) • Cover the same grade-level content as MEAP. • The ‘bar’ is modified, not the grade-level content standards themselves.

5. Michigan’s AA-MAS Approach USED Grant Award: Use General Assessment (MEAP) to Develop an Alternate Assessment Based on Modified Achievement Standards (AA-MAS) Develop Online Curricular and Instructional Supports to Improve Student Achievement 5 1/4/2020

6. MEAP-Access Design • MEAP-Access is a modified version of MEAP— • Fewer Items, sessions • Fewer Answer Choices • Less complex formats • Based on MEAP-Access Pilot (winter 2009)

7. MEAP-Access Status • Delayed until Fall 2011 due to low participation, item functioning/reliability • Plan: • Review other states’ Modification guidelines • Create Michigan’s Modification Guidelines • Revise MEAP items using Guidelines

8. MEAP-Access • Plan, continued • Conduct Cognitive Labs around state to test out formats and revised items • Do further revisions/write new items as necessary • Embed items on MEAP and MI-Access FI in Fall 2010 • Conduct BSC, CAC review of new and field-tested MEAP-Access items and passages • Administer MEAP-Access in Fall 2011

9. MEAP-Access • Assessment Options • IEP Teams have the flexibility to have a student participate in MEAP, MEAP-Access or MI-Access (FI only) for different content areas. • Example 1: MEAP Reading & Writing, MEAP-Access Mathematics • Example 2: MEAP-Access Reading and Writing, MI-Access FI Mathematics

10. MEAP-Access Resources

11. MOPLS • New initiative from BAA • Focus on training related to assessment and connections to instruction • Funded under GSEG grant and vendor contracts • Different options for user access and course credit • Provides schools and districts with additional source for robust, research-based, job-embedded professional learning to staff

12. MOPLS • Assessment Selection Guidelines • Currently available on Michigan Virtual University’s LearnPort, http://mi.learnport.org • Companion to printed document • User-driven presentation • Suitable for multiple audiences and training approaches • Student-centered system for matching student needs to the assessment

13. Sample Screenshot

14. MOPLS • Next projects being planned through BAA - Math and ELA for Struggling Students • Gathering place for best practices, instructional models, and assessment-based research on challenging concepts • We need your help! This project will feature videos of Michigan teachers delivering their “best lessons” in math and ELA • Contact Erika Bolig (BoligE@michigan.gov) or visit www.michigan.gov/oeaa for downloadable form • "MOPLS Exceptional Lesson Plan Response Form for Math"

15. CCSS Assessment Consortia • SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) • General Assessments • Dynamic Learning Maps (DLM) • Alternate Assessments

16. SBAC

17. DLM • Brainstorming activity with Michigan teachers on April 19th • Week long meetings in Kansas to develop Common Core Essential Elements (e.g., EGLCEs) • ELA in late April • Mathematics in May • Each state sending a team • SWD & content experts

18. Contact Information • Vince Dean – deanv@mi.gov • Dan Evans – evansd2@mi.gov • Linda Howley – howleyl@mi.gov • Phil Chase – chasep2@mi.gov • Joanne Winkelman – winkelmanj@mi.gov

19. Resources • www.mi.gov/mi-access • www.mi.gov/meap • www.mi.gov/mme • www.mi.gov/meap-access • www.mi.gov/elpa