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OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION Division of Assessment and Student Information Smarter Balanced Assessments 2014-15 Webinar #1 October 20, 2014

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OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION

Division of Assessment and Student Information

Smarter Balanced Assessments

2014-15

Webinar #1

October 20, 2014

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Today’s Topics

Big Picture Overview

Digital Library

Interim Assessments

Summative Assessments

Other State Assessments (Exit Exams)

Big Picture Overview

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Big Picture Overview

State Assessments in 3 content areas

ELA and Math assessed with Smarter Balanced

Science still assessed with MSP and Biology EOC

Smarter Balanced Components: Digital Library, Interim

Assessments, Summative Assessments

Transition from grant to vendor

Accountability

HS changes from Grade 10 to Grade 11

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Summative Assessments 2014–15 and beyond

English/LA Mathematics Science (no change)

Grade 3 Smarter Smarter

Grade 4 Smarter Smarter

Grade 5 Smarter Smarter MSP

Grade 6 Smarter Smarter

Grade 7 Smarter Smarter

Grade 8 Smarter Smarter MSP

Grade10 (or below for EOCs) (until Class of 2019)

Smarter ELA

exit exam

Year 1or Year 2

EOC exit exam

EOC Biology

exit exam (until NGSS)

Grade 11 Smarter Smarter

Grade 11 or 12(class of 2015 & 2016)

HSPE Reading and/or

Writing Retake

Smarter=Smarter Balanced Assessment; MSP=Measurements of Student

Progress;

EOC=End of Course exams; HSPE=High School proficiency Exam

Smarter Balanced Assessments

Common

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

rand learning

Summative: College and career

readiness assessments for

accountability

Interim:Flexible and open

assessments, used for actionable

feedback

Formative Educator Resources:

Digital Library with

instructional and

professional learning

resources that include

embedded formative

assessment processesPage 6

A System of Assessments

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Smarter Balanced Sustainability

The Smarter Balanced grant is coming to an end

4 years of development – remarkable accomplishments

Now housed at UCLA

Member states pay UCLA to use assessments

Joe Willhoft is retiring as of Dec 31; Tony Alpert has been

named executive director

Each state implements on their own, with common

protocols

Most states, including Washington, need a vendor to

assist with implementation

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New Smarter Balanced Vendor to

Support Our State’s Implementation

Multi-Agency Assessment Cooperative (MAAC)

Washington, Hawaii, Idaho, South Dakota, US Virgin

Islands, West Virginia partnered on an RFP

Smarter Balanced assessments (common to all) and state

specific (Science MSP and EOC, new state exit exams)

Contract awarded to our new service provider

American Institutes for Research (AIR)

Kick off meeting held last week (10-16-2014)

Current vendors assisting through fall/winter

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Training Plan in Context of MAAC

Smarter Balanced

AIR – MAAC Customization

OSPI Customization

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Tests for Accountability (95% participation expected)

Digital Library

Educator resources for

formative assessment practices

to improve instruction

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Digital Library

Access

District Assessment Coordinators (DACs), or their designees,

should enroll instructional and support staff who work

directly with students in their districts.

Functionality

The Digital Library offers professional learning resources and

instructional materials—like lesson plans, units, and learning

modules—for educators to use daily with students and staff.

Resources span K-12 and are aligned to Washington State

Learning Standards for English language arts and mathematics.

Resources are also aligned to formative assessment practices.

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Digital Library

How to Add Users (Demonstration of what ought to

happen)

Known issues and solutions/recommendations

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Digital Library

Known Bugs:

Email addresses cannot have apostrophes

Email addresses are case-sensitive

It’s possible create two accounts that only differ in case of email addresses.

We recommend creating all accounts using lower case; if it’s too late for

that, the correct case can be found in the original upload file, by searching in

ART* or in the welcome email*

Coordinators sometimes see users from other states

But cannot edit or change them

Export only includes users listed on the current screen

This is causing problems with OSPI’s effort’s to support password resets

Estimate is 2-3 weeks for these issues

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Digital Library

The Big Problems (and what we’re doing to fix them)

If user has a state and district role, District Coordinators

cannot see the records in ART

Short Term Solution: contact OSPI to remove STATE records

Long Term Solution: working with Smarter to get the complete list of

WA’s users and removing all STATE level records (may disrupt some

users)

User never logged in during preview and doesn’t have temp

email

Short Term Solution: School or District Coordinator can reset one-

by-one (unreasonable in most districts)

Long Term Solution #1: OSPI resets every password in the state

Long Term Solution #2: allow all users to use ‘forgot password’ even if

they don’t have a security question for a limited time period

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Digital Library

Big Problems (continued)

Emails not coming through

(NOTE: emails only created during initial account creation)

Whitelist [email protected] BEFORE

uploading lists to ART

Check school/district level spam/junk/quarantine folders to see if the

emails hit the server or not to isolate if the issue is local or remote

Issue seems to be consistently district wide (suggests local issue, but

working to confirm)

OSPI working on providing dedicated staff for firewall issues, but can

provide additional sender info to help configure firewalls (“Tier 2

Support”).

Password issues should be resolved by early next week;

email triage on a case-by-case basis

Digital Library Basics• The Digital Library is accessed through a single sign-on with user

permission levels so educators have access to all of the instructional

and professional learning resources for each grade (Grades

K-12).

• There are resources that educators can share or use with students and

families, but students and families will not be able to access materials

directly.

• All resources will have the formative assessment process embedded

within them. But the Digital Library WILL NOT be a “bank” of

formative assessment items alone.

• All submitted materials will be vetted through a Quality Criteria

Review Process by reviewers across the nation.

• Each resource reviewed and rated by at least 3 trained educators

• If resources do not meet the quality criteria, they are not included in

the library

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Resources in the Digital Library

* Resources include the following file types: Video, HTML5, Audio, PPT, Excel, Word, and PDF.

• Commissioned professional development modules

• Resources for students and families

• Frame formative assessment within a balanced assessment system

• Articulate the formative assessment process

• Highlight formative assessment practices and tools

• Commissioned professional development modules

• Instructional materials for educators

• Instructional materials for students

• High-quality vetted instructional resources and tools for educators

• High-quality vetted resources and tools for students and families

• Reflect and support the formative process

• Reflect and support the Common Core State Standards for

Mathematics and English Language Arts

• Create Professional Learning Communities

Assessment Literacy Modules

Exemplar Instructional Modules

Educational Resources

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• Demonstrate/support effective implementation of the formative process

• Focus on key content and practice from the Common Core State

Standards for Mathematics and English Language Arts

Digital Library Functionality

• Enables State Networks of

Educators and State

Leadership Teams to submit,

review, and publish resources

• Allows educators to view,

download, and rate resources

• Uses state-of-the-art tagging

and search to quickly find

resources by CCSS and other

topics

• Enables educators from across

the Consortium to

collaborate and share their

knowledge

• Facilitates access to resources

that are stored in participating

libraries

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Filtering for the Resource and Modules

Types

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Difference Between

Educational Resources and Modules

Educational Resources Modules

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A Green Check in the top corner marks the resource as “posted with distinction.”

Digital Library: Collaboration

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Digital Library: Collaboration

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Digital Library: Collaboration

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Digital Library: Collaboration

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Grounded in this Definition of

Formative Assessment Process

• Formative Assessment is a deliberate process used

by teachers and students during instruction that

provides actionable feedback that is used to adjust

ongoing teaching and learning strategies to improve

students’ attainment of curricular learning

targets/goals.

~ Compiled by the Digital Library National Advisory Panel

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All Resources are Grounded in the Four

Attributes of the Formative Assessment

Process and Reviewed using Quality

Criteria

Clarify

Intended

Learning

Elicit

Evidence

Act on

Evidence

Interpret

Evidence

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Interim Assessments

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Interim Assessment Design Principles

Administered through the same system as Summative

Items drawn from same pool as Summative; full array of

item types

Can be administered at various points in the year

Optional for districts

Online administration

Adhere to Usability, Accessibility, and Accommodations

Guidelines

Adaptive as appropriate (2015-16)

Not intended for accountability decisions

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Interim Assessment Components

Interim Assessment

Interim Comprehensive

Assessment (ICA)

Interim Assessment Blocks

(IAB)

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Interim Assessment User Interface,

Scoring and Reporting

User interface

Details for accessing items are not yet determined. Interim

test engine is still in development.

Scoring

Interim assessments will have various item types, most of

which will be machine scored

Hand scoring will be a local (school/classroom)

responsibility

Rubrics and training will be provided online as part of the

system

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Interim Assessment User Interface,

Scoring and Reporting, continued

Reporting

Interim Comprehensive Assessment (ICA)

Report same information as Summative Assessment

Overall composite scale score

Achievement levels

Claim level information

Interim Assessment Blocks (IABs)

Report information consistent with claim level information

Item level reporting is a future feature (not on current work

plan)

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Interim Assessments Timeline

Interim Assessments will be available Jan 6th

Jan 6th – Comprehensive Interim

Jan 27th – Interim Assessment Blocks

Initial release will include a fixed forms; adaptive forms

will be available as the item pool allows

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Current Timelines

All components of Smarter Balanced will be operational in 2014-15

Digital Library now available!

Interim assessments available Jan 6th (Comprehensive) and Jan 27th (Blocks)

Summative assessments administered in spring 2015 11th grade – last 7 weeks of year

3-8th grade – last 12 weeks of year (3rd gr ELA more limited)

Grade 3 ELA results must be returned in time for principals to meet with parents before the end of the year so window is short and early

Student score reports available June 2015 (or three weeks after school’s testing is completed if online)

Summative Assessments

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Summative Assessments

Administration windows

Paper/pencil option

AIR Portal

Cut scores

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Summative Assessments -

Administration Windows

Smarter Balanced

2015 Testing WindowsGrade 3 ELA March 9 10 to April 23 – online

March 9 10 to April 15 – paper/pencil

Grade 3 Math Last 12 weeks of school, but no earlier than

March 9 10 and no later than June 15 – online

March 9 10 to May 20 – paper/pencil

Grades 4–8 ELA and Math Last 12 weeks of school, but no earlier than

March 9 10 and no later than June 15 – online

March 9 10 to May 20 – paper/pencil

Grade 11 ELA and Math Last 7 weeks of school, but no earlier than April

6 and no later than June 15 – online

Last 3 weeks of school, but no later than May

30 – paper/pencil

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Summative Assessments -

Administration Windows

Measurements of Student Progress (MSP)

2015 Testing WindowsGrades 5 and 8 Science April 20 to June 5 – online

April 20 to May 19 – paper/pencil

High School Exit Exams (HSPE) (Off Grade) (EOC) (ELA)

2015 Testing WindowsGrades 11 and 12 HSPE Retake

o Reading

o Writing

March 17

March 18–19

Grade 10 ELA exit exam Last 12 weeks of school, but no earlier than

March 10 and no later than June 15 – online

May 12–13 OR May 19–20 paper/pencil

Math EOC exit exams May 11 to June 12

Biology EOC exit exam May 11 to June 12

Off Grade Level testing (formerly

known as DAPE)

Last 12 weeks of school, but no earlier than

March 9 10 and no later than June 15 – online

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Summative Assessments – Paper/Pencil

Smarter Balanced 3–8 and 11 paper/pencil tests will cost

$6.00 per test per content area ($12.00 per student if using

paper for both ELA and Math).

Additional costs do not apply to MSP science Grades 5 and 8,

HSPEs, Off Grade Level tests, EOCs, or Grade 10 ELA.

Selection of paper/pencil is at a school by grade by content area

(e.g., a school use online except for 5th grade math).

Print-on-demand tests required for visually impaired

students (documented on the Individualized Education

Program), are available through the Smarter Balanced testing

engine at no cost to districts.

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Summative Assessments – Paper/Pencil

Paper/pencil tests are fixed forms – not computer

adaptive. This means students will likely take longer to

complete paper/pencil tests than online tests.

The online test engine for Smarter Balanced incorporates

a multitude of embedded usability, accessibility, and

accommodations – districts will need to provide those

accommodations or have individual students who need

accommodations test online.

Scoring paper/pencil tests will take longer than scoring

online tests. Shipping paper/pencil tests back to the

scoring vendor will necessitate a shorter testing window

to minimize the delay in scoring and reporting.

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Washington’s Smarter Balanced Portal

(Mockup)

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Alphabet Soup

• Assessment and Registration Tool (ART)

• Digital Library User Sign-on

• Test Information Distribution Engine (TIDE)

• Registering students

• Enrolling new students

• Managing and editing users/students

• Processing and viewing test invalidations

• Test Delivery System (TDS)

• Test Administrator Interface

• Student Interface

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Training Plan

Webinars for District Assessment Coordinators (OSPI/AIR)

Smarter Balanced training modules (customized for MAAC/OSPI)

What is a CAT

Technology Requirements for Online Testing

Performance Tasks Overview

Student Interface for Online Testing

Accessibility and Accommodations

Universal Tools

Tech Readiness

Test Administrator (TA) Interface

Test Administration Training

Test Administrator course (for test proctors) How to:

Start and administer tests

Approve students for testing

Monitor a test session

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Smarter Balanced + Higher Ed

Washington has had unprecedented movement to use

mandatory high school tests in college placement

Recently announced - Agreement to provide access to

credit bearing courses to 11th graders who score a 3 or 4

on the Smarter Balanced ELA and math tests

Washington’s Community Colleges

Washington’s Baccalaureates

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Setting a New Baseline

New content standards:

Clear expectations for educators, students and parents about the

knowledge and skills students need to be on track for college

and/or career

New assessments:

Challenging and engaging for students, provide teachers and

school leaders with better information to help students

New performance baseline:

Proficiency scores developed by educators that reflect high

expectations for students (achievement level setting)

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What is “Achievement Level Setting”?

Formerly known as “standard-setting”

Process of establishing one or more scores for

proficiency on a test

Allows state and local education agencies to create

categories of performance for students

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Achievement Level Setting Timeline

• State chiefs approve plan/process for Achievement Level SettingApril 30

• Online Panel opened to thousands of educators and other constituentsOctober 6-17

• In-Person panels convened to recommend grade-level performance standards October 13-19

• Vertical Articulation by subgroup of In-Person panels looks at across-grade coherenceOctober 20

• Technical Advisory Committee reviews proceedings October 30

• State chiefs vote to endorse achievement level recommendationsNovember 6

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What about Graduation?

Legislature has given the State Board the option to set a

different cut score for graduation purposes

The ELA exit exam cut score will be determined from 10th

graders’ performance on the Smarter Balanced HS ELA test

(for classes of 2015-2018, at least).

Math EOC exit exam cut scores will be determined from this

year’s performance on new EOC tests (for classes of 2015-

2018). Exit exam cut score on Smarter Balanced math may

also be set next summer – SBE discussion next month.

Other State Assessments (Exit

Exams)

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Other State Assessments – HS Exit

Exams

ELA Exit Exam

Retakes and Alternatives for High School Graduation

Supt. Dorn’s Legislative Proposals

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ELA Exit Exam

Legislation calls for OSPI to develop a comprehensive

ELA exit exam for 10th graders to use to fulfill assessment

graduation requirement, using Smarter Balanced items

Limited items available to states would necessitate paper/pencil

format

Paper/pencil precludes CAT

Test map would be same as 11th grade test

Items would be the same as 11th grade test

Why not just use “11th grade” test?

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ELA Exit Exam – News!

Wa’s ELA Exit Exam will use the same test engine and

item bank as HS Smarter Balanced ELA test (used in 11th

grade for school and district accountability)

In other words, the Smarter Balanced ELA test will be

taken by 11th graders for accountability but should be

available to10th graders for graduation purposes (to allow

time for remediation and retakes)

An Exit Exam cut score will be set by the State Board for

graduation purposes based on 10th graders’ performance

The College & Career Ready cut score set by the

consortium will be used for accountability (11th graders)

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ELA Exit Exam – more detail

Wa’s ELA Exit Exam will now be available online –

administration within last 12 weeks of school (but no

later than June 15). Previously expected to be

paper/pencil only.

Fixed form paper/pencil can be used (at no cost) –

administration May 12–14 OR May 19–21.

Only online test will be Computer Adaptive.

If a student meets or exceeds the College and Career

Ready cut score in 10th grade, we will bank their score so

they won’t need to be tested in 11th grade.

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High School Assessment Graduation

Requirements Vary by ‘Class of’ Cohort

Class

of… English Language Arts Mathematics Science

2014 Reading HSPE Writing HSPE Either Algebra 1/Integrated Math 1 or

Geometry/Integrated Math 2 EOC

2015 Reading HSPE Writing HSPE Either Algebra 1/Integrated Math 1 or

Geometry/Integrated Math 2

EOC/EOC Exit Exam

Biology EOC

(until Next

Gen Science

Standards)2016 HSPEs or

Smarter Balanced

(exit exam cut score)

Either Algebra 1/Integrated Math 1 or

Geometry/Integrated Math 2

EOC/EOC Exit Exam

or

Smarter Balanced

(exit exam cut score)

2017 &

2018

Smarter Balanced

(exit exam cut score)

2019

and

beyond

Smarter Balanced

(college & career ready cut score)

Smarter Balanced

(college & career ready cut score)

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Assessment Menu – English Language

Arts

Smarter Balanced ELA

Exit Exam Cut Score

College/Career Ready Cut Score

HSPE in Reading and Writing

(retakes for 11th and 12th graders)

Collection of Evidence

College Entrance Scores

SAT, ACT, IB, AP

Out of State Tests

Grades Comparison

Recent Transfer Waiver

Special Education

Alternatives

General Assessments Alternatives

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Assessment Menu - Mathematics

Smarter Balanced Math

Yr1 & Yr2 EOC Exit Exams

Collection of Evidence

College Entrance Scores

SAT, ACT, IB, AP

Out of State Tests

Grades Comparison

Recent Transfer Waiver

Special Education

Alternatives

General Assessments Alternatives

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Assessment Menu - Science

Biology EOC Exam (until

new NGSS comprehensive

exam is developed)

Collection of Evidence

College Entrance Scores

IB, AP

Out of State Tests

Grades Comparison

Recent Transfer Waiver

Special Education

Alternatives

General Assessments Alternatives

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Superintendent Dorn’s legislative

proposals related to assessments

Plan A: Eliminate assessment graduation requirements

Use Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards

to prepare students for college and career.

Use Smarter Balanced assessments in grades 3-8 and 11 to

signal if students, teachers and systems are on track for

graduating students college and career ready.

Use the 11th grade tests as a “Green, Yellow, Red” indicator of

services/instruction needed in senior year.

Switch resources used for testing retakes and alternatives for

passing exit exams on direct instruction and preparation of

students.

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Superintendent Dorn’s proposals

Plan B: Update and streamline options to fulfill assessment

graduation requirements

Collection of Evidence in Math – reduce to just Year 1 math

(eliminate Geometry COE)

Out of state test – must be test used for accountability or exit

exam in the other state

Grades Comparison in Alg 1, Int 1, Geometry or Int 2 –

eliminate minimum GPA for access to this alternative

Additional HS Credit (1.0) in content area – add this new

alternative

College Credit in content area – add this new alternative

Transfer Waiver – change date of transfer to January 1 of senior

year (from March 1)

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Thank you!