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Achievement Series. An Assessment Tool. What is Achievement Series? Formative and summative assessment: What’s up with that? The Tour! Level One Basic Product info Using the state preformatted tests Looking at test data Level Two (to be conducted at a later date) Site administration
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Achievement Series An Assessment Tool
What is Achievement Series? • Formative and summative assessment: What’s up with that? • The Tour! • Level One • Basic Product info • Using the state preformatted tests • Looking at test data • Level Two (to be conducted at a later date) • Site administration • Making your own items, item banks • Creating your own classroom and district tests • Planning implementation at your school Agenda
Online testing product that work from the same data platform as the DACs (Dakota Assessment of Content Standards) • Designed to give classroom teachers a tool to assess mastery of SD content standards in math, science, & reading • Flexibility in when to test and which standards to test • Formative and Summative Assessments Achievement Series
A tool for assessment • Formative (a check “for” learning) • Summative (check “of” all learning) A Basketball Analogy
Achievement Series Structure State (DOE) ESA 5 ESA 6 Sioux Falls ESA 7 Belle Fourche Custer Meade Custer High School Custer Middle School Each entity has its own Site ID North Elementary South Elementary
Other ESA’s Sioux Falls ESA 7 Meade Belle Fourche Training Site District Level Site ID 44-8485-0233 High School Site ID 79-4165-3101 Middle School Site ID 34-0061-0246 Each entity has its own Site ID
Clarifying exactly what each standard means. • To provide consistent interpretation across schools and districts statewide • Done by a large group of K-12 teachers over the course of about one year. • Reading, Math, and Science • Unpacked standards will be shared with test writers for future standardized test development Unpacked Standards