Transitioning to a Balanced Assessment System

1. Transitioning to a Balanced Assessment System

2. Professional Development in Assessment • Smarter Balanced Logistics Overview

3. Professional Development in Assessment • Priorities • Increase educator and administrator assessment literacy • Help educators connect the Idaho Core Standards to the Smarter Balanced Assessment System

4. Formative Assessment • An instructional process that provides real-time feedback to adjust teaching and learning to improve student outcomes. • Interim Assessment • Periodic tests used to evaluate student knowledge, skills, and standing at specific points along a curriculum or course. • Summative Assessment • Tests given at the end of an instructional period to make final determinations about student knowledge, skills, and standing Assessment Literacy

5. Assessment Literacy A Balanced Assessment System Summative assessments Benchmarked to college and career readiness Idaho Core State Standards specify K-12 expectations for college and career readiness All students leave high school college and career ready Teachers and schools have information and tools they need to improve teaching and learning Digital Library Teacher resources in formative assessment to improve instruction Interim assessments Flexible, open, used for action feedback

6. Assessment Literacy • The Power of Assessment Webinar Series • 12 Modules on Assessment Literacy • Key Topics • Understanding formative and interim assessment • Providing student feedback • Grading • Understanding assessment targets • Target-method match • Test item writing guidelines • Resources for preparing for ICS and SBAC • Conceptual framework for balanced assessment http://www.sde.idaho.gov/site/formativeInterim/professionalDev.htm

7. Connecting Standards to Assessment ConceptualFramework Assessment Claims Broad statements of the assessment system‘s learning outcomes, each of which requires evidence. Assessment Targets Explanations of the types of data that will support interpretations of competence towards achievement of the claims. Interpretations Achievement Level Descriptors (e.g. definitions of Advanced, Proficient, etc.)

8. Connecting Standards to Assessment

9. Connecting Standards to Assessment Implications for Instruction Webinars: Connecting the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics and the Smarter Balanced Assessment http://www.sde.idaho.gov/site/common/commonCorePD.htm

10. Smarter Balanced Logistics Smarter Balanced Timeline

11. Smarter Balanced Logistics Pilot Test 124 schools in Idaho administered the Pilot Test in Spring 2013 Pilots were given in different school sizes, grade levels and regions For example: 493 tests at Canyon Ridge High School in Twin Falls to 6 tests completed in Bliss SBAC is conducting a Pilot Test Data Review this fall Reviewers will evaluate items and make recommendations to “accept as is,” “revise and re-field test,” or “reject” with rationale Idaho educators are participating in this process

12. Smarter Balanced Logistics Practice Tests Now available for each subject area and all grade levels. 30 items per grade / subject area Fixed form tests Practice Tests could be used for the following: Lesson planning Professional development Communication efforts with stakeholders Practice tests are not intended for evaluating student readiness for SBAC Access the Practice Tests online at: http://www.smarterbalanced.org/pilot-test/

13. Smarter Balanced Logistics Field Test Consortium Goals Determine cut scores (advanced, proficient, etc.) Calibrate test items (easy, medium, hard) Testing Logistics Idaho Goals Give Idaho students the opportunity to experience a new test before it becomes operational Avoid double-testing Avoid giving a non-ICS aligned test in 2014 NO STUDENT SCORES WILL COME FROM FIELD TEST!

14. Smarter Balanced Logistics Field Test All students in grades 3-11 must participate Excludes 11th graders who have not yet passed ISAT 95% participation rule still applies 10th graders who did not pass ISAT in 9th grade should be placed on alternate path to graduation School accountability determinations will roll forward Field Test Window: April 1 – May 16 Technology Readiness Tool Devices, Students, Network Rooms, Proctors, etc. www.techreadiness.net Complete survey by Oct. 31, 2013

15. Contacts • Dr. TJ Bliss • Director of Assessment and Accountability • tjbliss@sde.idaho.gov • Angela Hemingway • Statewide Assessment and Accountability Coordinator • ahemingway@sde.idaho.gov • Nancy Thomas Price • Interim/Formative Assessment Coordinator • nthomasprice@sde.idaho.gov