Career and College Ready

1. Statewide Assessment TransitionUpdateVince Dean, Ph.D.Director, Office of Standards & AssessmentDAS Advisory Committee 11-7-13

2. Career and College Ready Career- and College-Ready (CCR) means that a high school graduate has the core foundational knowledge and skills necessary to succeed in workforce training, certification programs, and entry-level, credit-bearing academic college courses that provide preparation for careers leading to a self-sustaining wage, pathways to advancement, and competitiveness in the global economy

3. Use technology and tools strategically in learning and communicating  • Use argument and reasoning to do research, construct arguments, and critique the reasoning of others • Communicate and collaborate effectively with a variety of audiences • Solve problems, construct explanations and design solutions Career and College Ready

4. What the Suite of Summative and Interim Assessments will Look Like

5. Legislative Action on Common Core & Smarter Balanced Suspension • October 1 MDE budget prohibition against any implementation of Common Core or Smarter Balanced • ‘Affirmative Action’ • Defined by Michigan House of Representatives as a resolution • Voted on 9/26/13; 85-21 in support of CCSS and Smarter Balanced through HCR 11 if certain conditions met • Guarantee local control; data security; report on assessment options

6. Legislative Action on Common Core & Smarter Balanced Suspension • Senate took action on October 24th • Held hearing with limited testimony and public comment on October 2nd • May develop a new resolution, modify the House resolution, or resolve through a revision to the MDE budget • Modified House resolution • Preference for CAT • Administered twice per year • Real-time results

7. Legislative Action on Common Core & Smarter Balanced Suspension • Example Repercussions • Implementation purgatory; CCSS were still our state standards • Michigan in violation of our NCLB flexibility waiver • Approximately 97% of schools and districts fail AYP • Revert to original method of calculating Bottom 5 percent, causing turmoil with schools coming on and going off the list • Participation in Smarter Balanced and DLM field testing during this school year • K-2 Pilot Test

8. Assessment Transition Planning • Leaving Consortia • Collective state capacity • Item types • Scoring and reporting • Computer Adaptive Testing • Individual student growth data • PD materials • Fall 14/Moving to spring

9. Assessment Transition Planning • Summative and Interim • Different purposes • Multiple measures to support reform efforts and accountability • Fall to Spring • All summative will eventually be spring • Thinking about a year’s growth • Spring 2015: Goal for as many operational components as possible

10. Assessment Transition Planning • Pilot/Field testing opportunities are the key in every scenario • Every fall and spring there will be opportunities for schools to participate in an online pilot or field test event • Enough students must participate in order to: • Calibrate items • Compare mode effects • Test systems • Support the move to spring • Field viable assessments if no consortia opportunities

11. Interim Assessment Pilot Testing

12. Smarter Balanced Field Testing • Currently at approximately 92% of what we need in terms of Michigan students participating to provide a demographically representative sample • Voluntary sign-up through November 8th • Low numbers for grades 8 and 11; everything else looking very good • Targeted recruitment coming next • First 2/3 of window; fixed-form to calibrate items • Last 1/3 of window; shakedown cruise of CAT algorithm and scoring solutions • Same approximate test length, item type and DOK distribution

13. Interim Assessment Piloting Where are we now: • Currently pilot testing Science & Social Studies around the state. Window opened 10/28 will close Dec 6; piloting 2,800 items • Beginning recruitment for Spring Pilot of K2, due to legislative delay • While the delay hurts our overall timeline by half a year, it may help with participation as schools will not be competing with MEAP • Approximately500 TE items • K:  135 schools, 17k students • 1:  153 schools, 19k students • 2:  172 schools, 21k students • Begin item writing and development of approximately 850-1,000 high school mathematics items. • Mathematics design challenge

14. Interim Assessment Piloting What’s next: • Spring 2014 K2 Pilot: Looking at a 6-week window • Suggestions for best window between February and May? • Schedule work sessions to think about high school ELA interim content and design • Suggestions for a 12th grade ELA interim assessment? • Fall 14 large-scale field-test of Science and Social Studies interim system • This will model the operational test design as closely as possible. The goal would be to move to an operational status for Spring 15 • Waiver status issue

15. MI-Access FI Social Studies • New EGLCEs and EHSCEs posted to MI-Access webpage • Assessment will consist of two kinds of items: • stand-alone and passage-based; • Currently recruiting for a spring (April/May) pilot test for students in grades 5, 8, and 11 • Pilot will include chance for teachers and students to provide feedback on the online assessment experience and assessment features (such as different types of audio presentations) • Operational in Spring 2015 • Interested in pilot? email John Jaquith at JaquithJ@michigan.gov

16. Dynamic Learning Maps • One ISD center based program participating in the fall Pilot • Michigan districts have been encouraged to participate in three different field test opportunities in the winter and spring (Deadline for districts to sign up is 11/18: go to https://kansasedu.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_1BVeB6p9r9zXYYR) • make sure Michigan students and teachers are well represented; • students/teachers will become more familiar with DLM and computer-based testing; • opportunity to give feedback after each field test; • allows DLM’s system to be improve movement through learning map (which set of items/testlets to administer to student);

17. WIDA Assessments • 3 available assessments: • W-APT: replaces ELPA Initial Screening • ACCESS for ELLs: replaces Spring ELPA (test window Feb. 10 – Mar. 28) • Alternate ACCESS for ELLs: for ELs who are also SWDs (test window Feb. 10 – Mar. 28) • PD for the ACCESS starting in December • 3 districts field testing online Reading items in spring • Biggest transition challenges: • Communication with districts who don’t have ISD/RESA support or large EL populations • Greater amount of time to screen students than with ELPA • Difficulty in achieving inter-rater reliability on scoring W-APT Speaking and Writing items • Questions How can we better assist schools with low to medium sized populations in this transition year? How can we, on a large-scale, better prepare test administrators to score Speaking and Writing items using the WIDA rubrics?

18. Kindergarten Entry Assessment • The KEA pilot began September 3, 2013 ended on November 1, 2013. • Jeff Beal - currently assisting teachers in making sure that they finalize all of their checkpoints and entered information for every student. • Administrators and teachers are now able to create reports through TS GOLD. • TS GOLD is sending a survey to all participants this week. • 76 districts throughout Michigan • 88 schools • 173 teachers • 4107 students

19. Contact Information • Smarter Balanced – Vince Dean; deanv@michigan.gov • DLM & MI-Access Social Studies– Linda Howley; howleyl@michigan.gov & John Jaquith; jaquithj@michigan.gov • Interim Assessments – Andy Middlestead; middlesteada@michigan.gov • WIDA – Jen Paul; paulj@michigan.gov • KEA – Jeff Beal; bealj1@michigan.gov • Online Assessment Readiness – Matt Ayotte; ayottem@michigan.gov