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Smarter Balanced Assessment & Higher Education

Smarter Balanced Assessment & Higher Education. Bill Moore, SBCTC Core to College Alignment Director. Overview and Consortium Proposal under Consideration Winter 2013.

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Smarter Balanced Assessment & Higher Education

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  1. Smarter Balanced Assessment & Higher Education Bill Moore, SBCTC Core to College Alignment Director Overview and Consortium Proposal under Consideration Winter 2013 For more information about Smarter Balanced work described in these slides, see http://www.smarterbalanced.org/achievement-level-descriptors-and-college-readiness/

  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. Major Shifts in the CCSS:“Fewer, Higher, Clearer, Deeper” MATH • Focus: strongly where the standards focus • Coherence: Think across grades and link to major topics within grades • Rigor: Require conceptual understanding, fluency, and application ELA • Building content knowledge through content-rich nonfiction • Reading, writing, and speakinggrounded in evidence from text, both literary and informational • Regular practice withcomplex text and its academic language www.corestandards.org

  4. Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium 25 states (21 governing, 4 advisory) K-12 & Higher Education Leads in each state Washington state is the fiscal agent for the Consortium

  5. 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 Common Core 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

  6. Summative Assessment:Two-pronged Approach

  7. Advantages to Higher Education

  8. Higher Education’s Involvement Matters

  9. Reaching the Goal: Expectations of Higher Education

  10. College Content Readiness Definitions How well does the language in these definitions articulate what it means to be ready for the English language arts and math expectations students will encounter in entry college-level courses?

  11. Smarter Balanced Policy Achievement Level Descriptors College Readiness Threshold

  12. College Readiness Policy Framework What questions or issues, if any, do you have regarding the proposed implications noted above for students scoring at Level 3 or Level 4 on the 11th grade Smarter Balanced assessment?

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