2016 CAASPP Testing In-Service February 26, 2016 BAKERSFIELD CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT

1. California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) 2016 CAASPPTesting In-Service February 26, 2016 BAKERSFIELD CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT

2. Agenda

3. 2015-16 State Tests

4. Summative Assessment:One Part of an Integrated System

5. Student Participation: General • Summative Assessments: • Grades 3-8 • ELA & Math • Computer adaptive portion (CAT) • Optional classroom activity • Performance task • The California Alternate Assessments (CAAs): • Grades 3-8 • ELA & Math • For students with significant cognitive disabilities Testing Exemptions: • EL enrolled in the US less than 12 months are exempt from ELA only • Parents may exempt their child from taking the CAASPP tests via a written request

6. Smarter BalancedSummative Assessments Computer adaptive test (CAT): • ELA and math • Includes a wide variety of question types. • Adaptive: • As a student progresses, the difficulty of questions is adjusted on the basis of the student’s responses. Classroom Activity (OPTIONAL): • ELA and math • Performance Tasks contain sufficient explanation and context to be administered without requiring the classroom activity. • States have flexibility to require or not the classroom activity • CA will utilize 2015–16 as a transition year Performance Task: • ELA and Math • Measures the application of knowledge and higher-order thinking skills to explore and analyze a complex, real-world scenarios.

7. What’s New for 2015–16 • Security and Test Administration Incident Reporting System (STAIRS) (R&E to support) • Assessment Target Reports • Faster initial Student Score Reports • Notification e-mails for scoring and reporting • Secure browser for CAAs • IEP Indicator: applying validation rules for CAA and accommodations • Grade level correction cut off date • Translated test directions now available in ELA (No Spanish translation for Math) • Download at: http://www.caaspp.org/ta-resources/directions.html • Student Score Reports available in Spanish • Smarter Balanced Online Test Administration Manual • http://www.caaspp.org/rsc/pdfs/CAASPP.online_tam.2016.pdf

8. What’s New for 2015–16 Home for all things CAASPP:http://www.caaspp.org

9. Test Site Coordinator Responsibilities • Oversee all components of CAASPP testing • Administrators & examiners are trained and submit CAASPP Test Security Affidavit • Download via link: http://www.caaspp.org/administration/forms/ • Verify student test assignments and test settings in TOMS • Create testing schedules and procedures for the school site • Submit schedule to Maria Quiroz (quirozm@bcsd.com) by March 18, 2016 • Provide student login cards (R&E will provide on cardstock next week; will email date) • Access: Complete Schools AccessReportsDemographicsMySTU140 • Considered secure materials, please collect daily after testing • Collect scratch paper and Directions for Administration [DFAs] for CAAs destroy them after testing is completed • CAASPP Security Agreement to be read and signed online prior to testing by Site Coordinator and Principal with copy sent to Maria Quiroz in R&E Link: http://www.caaspp.org/administration/forms/ • Monitor ensure that all eligible students participate. • Address testing problems and report all security incidents to R&E

10. Test Security Incidents New: STAIRS (Security and Test Administration Incident Reporting System) requires sites to submit an online form to report an incident. If an appeal is required, an e-mail will be sent instructing the coordinator to file an appeal in TOMS.

11. Test Operations Management System (TOMS) FUNCTIONS • Users data management (staff & student). • Review student profile. • Demographic data from CALPADS (read only) • Student test assignments to non-default tests—CMA, CAAs/CAPA. • Assign online test settings to students. • R&E will make your changes in TOMS upon request • R&E will check student movement twice a week for you • District updates CALPADS every other day now and daily during testing. Changes take 2 days to appear in TOMS.

12. TOMS Student Profile: Demographics All demographic data is read only. Changes done in Complete School • New: Grade level is frozen on the first date of the test administration window.

13. TOMS Student Profile: Special Education (Demographics) • Cannot assign accommodations or CAA testing, CMA for Science, CAPA Science, if students that do not have an IDEA Indicator in TOMS • These data are read-only; they must be modified in through Sped. Ed Dept. • New: Embedded and non-embedded accommodations are available only to students who have an Education Program code of “101” for a Section 504 plan or“144” for a Special Education indicator with a valid primary disability type in CALPADS. • Note: Removing a Special Education indicator from CALPADS will remove access to any accommodations or test assignments to CAA/CAPA Science or CMA for Science.

14. TOMS Student Profile:Test Mode • Test Assignment • All students in grades 3–8 are automatically assigned the online Smarter Balanced Summative Assessments. • Students who are eligible for the CAAs have been assigned in TOMS. (R&E loaded for you; please verify) • NEW: Students cannot be assigned the CAAs in TOMS without an Education Program code of “144” for Special Education and with a valid primary disability type in CALPADS. • Verify student test assignments a minimum of 24 hours prior to student testing.

15. Student Profile in TOMS: Test Mode All students in grades 3–8 and 11 are automatically enrolled in the online Smarter.

16. Student Profile in TOMS: Test Settings Test site coordinators are authorized to set accessibility supports. Changes require 24hrs • TOMS Online Student Test Settings User Guide • http://www.caaspp.org/rsc/pdfs/CAASPP.student-test-settings.2016.pdf

17. Reports in TOMS • New: Student Move Report (R&E will do 2x a week) • Report includes a list of students who have moved within the LEA and students who have moved into the LEA from outside the LEA. • New: Request New Report functionality • Request New Report allows the user to leave the page and receive an e-mail notification when the report is available for download.

18. Accessibility Supports • The online assessments include embedded and non-embedded accessibility supports: • Embedded: part of the computer administration (e.g., digital notepad, calculator) • Non-embedded: provided outside the computer administration (e.g., scratch paper, multiplication table) • Universal Tools: • Available to all; based on student preference and selection (e.g., strikethrough, highlighter) • Designated Supports: • Available to all; need to be indicated by an educator or guardian (e.g., color contrast, read aloud, glossary, magnification) • Accommodations: • Based on IEPs or Section 504 plan (e.g., American Sign Language, scribe)

19. Accessibility Supports

20. Assessment Target Reports Pending Approval Only LEAs that complete online summative ELA and mathematics assessments will receive target scores. Target scores are available for all four ELA claims

21. Online Reporting System • Preliminary scores and aggregate reporting: • The Online Reporting System (ORS) will include scores for online summative assessments for ELA and mathematics and paper-pencil scores for Science (CST, CMA, CAPA) for RLA. • Online summative scores for a content area will be in ORS within 3 weeks of a student having completed the CAT and Performance Task for that content area.

22. Sample Student Score Reports New look: More parent friendly

23. Student Score Report Updates • The CAA and CAPA Student Score Reports will be provided separately for the 2015–16 administration and will be available in fall 2016. • New: Option to select Spanish Student Score Report at the student level in TOMS at site: • If selected, the student’s report will be available in English and Spanish • Will be available in TOMS to download and print

24. Public Web Reporting • Summative ELA and mathematics Web site will be expanded to include: • Comparisons across entities—LEAs or schools • Multi-school year data provided for 2014–15 and 2015–16 aggregate scores • CAAs added to site and score data, to be made available in fall 2016

25. Test Administration

26. Systems and Processes for Online Administration 1 2 3 • CALPADS • (California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System) • Manage student demographic data • TOMS • Set up test administration windows • Verify student demographic data • Configure online test settings (designated supports and accommodations) • Test Administrator Interface & Student Testing Site • Administer online Smarter Balanced Assessments • Administer CAAs

27. Scheduling Testing Time • Estimated testing times:

28. Scheduling Testing Time • Scheduling is a collaborative effort • Recommended: Schedule the CAT first and the Performance Task (PT) second. • The classroom activity should be completed within 3 days prior to administering a Performance Task. • ELA PTs have 2 parts and can be completed over 2 days. • Mathematics PTs have 1 part and can be completed in 1 day. • Recommended: PTs should not be administered on the same day as the CAT.

29. Example Testing Schedules • Example 1: • Example 2:

30. Establishing Appropriate Testing Conditions • Conduct classroom sweeps • Remove or cover displayed information (on bulletin boards, chalkboards, and dry-erase boards, etc.) that may be used by students to help answer questions: • Rubrics, vocabulary charts, student work, posters, graphs, charts, etc. • Make appropriate seating arrangements prior to test administration: • Students should be seated so that they cannot view the answers of others. • Establish procedures to maintain a quiet testing environment: • Remember that some students may finish more quickly than others. • Cell phones or other electronic devices are not allowed to be used during testing (e.g., they must be turned off and put away). • Post an “Unauthorized Electronic Devices May Not Be Used at Any Time During the Testing Session” sign so that it is clearly visible to all students. • Place a “TESTING—DO NOT DISTURB” sign on the door.

31. General Test Rules • Students must answer all test questions on a page (i.e., screen) before moving on to the next page. • Students may not return to a test segment once it has been completed and submitted. • Students must answer all test questions before the test can be submitted. • Students may not return to a test once it has been completed and submitted. • Test administrators must follow the “SAY” script exactly each time a test session is administered. • Refer to the “SAY” boxes of the Online Test Administration Manual and/or Online Directions for Administration.

32. Administering a Test Session • The test administrator logs on to the Test Administrator Interface from http://www.caaspp.orgon a standard Web browser.

33. Administering a Test Session • The test administrator selects the test category or the grade level and content area.

34. Administering a Test Session • The test administrator selects the tests to administer. • Additional tests can be added to a session; you will receive a confirmation message box. • The test administratorstarts a test session.

35. Administering a Test Session • The test administrator informs students of the testSession ID. • Write or display it clearly in a place all students can see. • Session IDs are automatically generated upon selecting the Start Sessionbutton. • Additional tests can be added to a session; a confirmation message box confirms adding tests to a session.

36. Administering a Test Session • Test administrators need to distribute Student Logon Information providing students with their Statewide Student Identifier (SSID) and confirmation code (student first name in CALPADS) for logon along with the Session ID. • The information may be provided on a card or piece of paper (i.e., login ticket). • Additional information can be included on the login ticket. • Important: Student personal information is secure and must be collected and securely stored at the end of a test session, then securely destroyed at the end of the test administration.

37. Administering a Test Session • Students log on through the secure browser. • Recommended: Secure browsers are already launched on testing devices before students sit down to test. • To log on, students need: • First Name (Confirmation Code): Student’s legal first name as spelled in CALPADS • State-SSID: “CA” followed by a hyphen “-” and the student’s SSID • Session ID: Test administrator-generated Session ID

38. Administering a Test Session • Students verify their identity. • After logging on, students will see the “Is This You?”screen. • Students should select Yesto continue if the information on the screen is correct.

39. Administering a Test Session • Student selects the test. • All grade-level tests that the student is eligible to take are displayed. • Only the tests that the test administrator has selected for the test session and those that have not been completed are selectable by students. Note: Only the tests that have been selected by the test administrator will appear active. Others will be grayed out.

40. Administering a Test Session • Upon selecting a test, students wait for test administrator approval. • As students select tests, the test administrator can see approvals populate in the Approvals queue of the Test Administrator Interface.

41. Administering a Test Session • The test administrator selects the Approvals (#)button to access the Approvals and Student Test Settings screen.

42. Administering a Test Session • The test administrator verifies that the students have selected the appropriate test and reviews the students’ test settings by selecting See Detailsbutton next to each student.

43. Administering a Test Session

44. Administering a Test Session • The test administrator selects Setto confirm the current test settings and return to the list of students awaiting approval. The test administrator still must approve the student for testing OR • The test administrator selects Set & Approveto establish the existing settings and approve the student for testing. • Note: If a student’s test settings are incorrect, test administrators should deny the student, contact the LEA CAASPP coordinator or test site coordinator to correct the test settings in TOMS, and test the student at a later time.

45. Administering a Test Session • Upon reviewing test settings for all students, the test administrator approves students to test on the Approvals and Student Test Settings screen. • Select Approveto approve a specific student for testing. • Select Approve All Studentsto approve all students.

46. Administering a Test Session • After the test administrator has approved a student for testing, the student verifies the test information and settings. The student will select Yes, Start My Testto begin testing or Noif the settingsare incorrect.

47. Administering a Test Session • If a student has a text-to-speech accommodation or is taking a test with ELA listening questions, he or she will verify the audio checks through headphones. Test with listening questions audio check Text-to-speech audio check

48. Administering a Test Session • Finally, students will see the Test Instructions and Help page before they begin testing. Students will select Begin Test Now to begin testing.

49. Monitoring Student Progress • Test administrators can monitor student testing through the Students in Your Test Session table on the Test Administrator Interface: • Displays students who have logged in and been approved for testing.

50. Pausing Tests • Test administrators may pause an individual student’s test in the Students in Your Test Session table. • This will not affect other students’ tests. • There are different pausing rules for the CAAs.