Smarter Balanced Assessment
Presented June 12, 2015
Christopher Hanczrik, OSPI Assessment Operations Anton Jackson, OSPI Mathematics Content Development Beth Simpson, OSPI ELA Content Development
A System of Assessments
Smarter Balanced Summative Assessments - Administration
Windows
Smarter Balanced 2015 Testing Windows
Grade 10 ELA Last 12 weeks of school, but no earlier than March 10 and no later than June 15 – online
Last 3 weeks of school, but no later than May 30 – 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
Other Summative Assessments - Administration Windows
High School Exit Exams (HSPE and EOC) 2015/16 Testing Windows
Grades 12 HSPE Retake o Reading
o Writing
November 3 - 5 March 15 - 17
Math EOC exit exams January 4 - February 5 May 9 - June 10
Biology EOC exit exam January 4 - February 5 May 9 - June 10
Off Grade Level (formerly called DAPE) ELA, Science Math
November 2 - 20
Spring 2016 dates TBD
HS Tests for School and District Accountability
(95% participation required)Grade ELA Math Science
Grade 9
Grade 10 Biology EOC
Grade 11 Smarter Balanced
(College and Career Ready cut score)
Smarter Balanced
(College and Career Ready cut score)
Portal, Alphabet Soup
• Assessment and Registration Tool (ART)
• Digital Library User Sign-on
• Test Information Distribution Engine (TIDE)
• Managing and editing users/students
• Registering students for tests
• Selecting supports and accommodations
• Processing and viewing test invalidations
• Test Delivery System (TDS)
• Test Administrator Interface
• Student Interface
• Teacher Hand Scoring System (THSS)
• Online Reporting System (ORS)
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)
• BYOD is an option some districts may want to utilize by allowing students to use their own (technology) devices.
• Intended for districts that have already implemented BYOD and have sufficient district capacity to ensure equity of access.
• OSPI has developed a policy for districts. The
document is posted to the portal.
Practice and Training Test options
• This is how students can take practice tests at home, for example, or how a member of the public can take a practice test
Guest student Guest session
• Requires a Test Administrator with a user account in TIDE
Guest student Real session
• Requires the student to be present in TIDE and requires a Test Administrator with a user account in TIDE
• This most closely mimics the operational environment
Real student
Real session
Practice and Training Tests
• The Smarter Balanced Practice and Training tests are available on the WCAP portal: http://wa.portal.airast.org/
• Practice and Training tests provide both test administrators and students a thorough review of the test in preparation for the summative assessment.
• Most often, the Practice and Training tests can be
administered in lieu of the interims, especially with Practice Test using the secure browser.
Summative Assessments – Paper/Pencil (Option)
• Smarter Balanced high school paper/pencil tests will cost $6.00 per test per content area ($12.00 per student if using
paper/pencil for both ELA and Math).
• 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.
• Tests will take longer to score and for return of reports.
Summative and Interims assessments- improved accessibility for students
• Accessibility addressed in three categories:
o Universal tools
o Designated supports o Accommodations
• Accessibility guidelines focused on students AND content
constructs, developed through collaboration amongst states and national experts
• Smarter Balanced approach is consistent with recent USED
guidance on supporting greater student access that results in valid test outcomes.
Navigating Interim Support – WCAP Portal
The Washington Comprehensive Assessment Program (WCAP) portal houses the:
Interim assessments
Teacher Hand Scoring System (THSS)
Online Reporting System (ORS)
Administration Manual Online - Interim
http://wa.portal.airast.org/
Start Here
http://wa.portal.airast.org/
Hand Scoring
Reports Interim Tests
Manuals ELA and math hand scoring training documents are also
located here.
Classroom Activities for
Interim
DIGITAL LIBRARY
Professional and Instructional resources Aligned to Common core and formative assessment practices for ELA and
Mathematics
Requires log-in information Includes a HELP tutorial
• https://www.smarterbalancedlibrary.org/digital-library- resources
Timeline
Page 17 FEATURED RESOURCE
Assessment Literacy Modules
• 30 resource videos
• Understanding Smarter Balanced assessments
– The system, interims, and summative
• Parts of the formative assessment process
– Clarifying intended learning and eliciting, interpreting, and acting on evidence
– Grade-band specific: K–2, 3–5, 6–8, 6–12, 9–12
Filtered for:
ELA
Grades 10 & 11
Resources – Digital Library Assistance
• Digital Library access and support is provided by each district
• District staff, usually the District Assessment
Coordinator (DAC), can get assistance from
OSPI for issues that cannot be solved at the
district level
English Language Arts (ELA) Claims
Claim 1: Reading Students can read closely and analytically to
comprehend a range of increasingly complex literary and informational texts.
Claim 2: Writing Students can produce effective and well-grounded writing for a range of purposes and audiences.
Claim 3: Listening Students can employ effective speaking and listening skills for a range of purposes and audiences.
Claim 4: Research Students can engage in research/inquiry to investigate topics, and to analyze, integrate, and present information.
Claims for Mathematics
• Claim 1: Concepts & Procedures
– Students can explain and apply mathematical concepts and interpret and carry out mathematical procedures with precision and fluency.
• Claim 2: Problem Solving
– Students can solve a range of complex well- posed problems in pure and applied mathematics, making productive use of knowledge and problem solving strategies.
• Claim 3:Communicating Reasoning
– Students can clearly and precisely construct viable arguments to support their own reasoning and to critique the reasoning of others.
• Claim 4: Modeling and Data Analysis
– Students can analyze complex, real-world scenarios and can construct and use mathematical models to interpret and solve problems.
INTERIM ASSESSMENTS
Structure Components Resources
What are the Interim Assessments?
Interim Assessment
Interim
Comprehensive Assessment
(ICA)
Interim Assessment Blocks
(IAB)
Interim Comprehensive Assessment?
ICA
• Matches the summative blueprint
– assess the same range of standards – provide scores on the same scale
• Provides teachers with information on a student’s
– general areas of strength or need
– readiness for the end-of-year summative assessment
Interim Assessment Blocks IAB
• Short, focused sets of items that measure several assessment targets
– Five to seventeen blocks per subject per grade – Focus on smaller sets of related concepts
• Provides teacher with
– Information about a student’s strengths or needs
– more detailed information for instructional purposes
English Language Arts IABs
Grade 6-8
Read Literary Texts
Read Informational Texts Edit/Revise
Brief Writes
Listen/Interpret Research
Narrative Performance Task*
Explanatory Performance Task*
Argument Performance Task
* Not available 2015-2016
Math IABs
Grade 7 Grade 8 Grade 11
Expressions/
Equations Expressions/
Equations Linear
Functions Number Systems Functions Quadratic Functions Ratio/Proportions Geometry Geometry Performance
Task Performance
Task Performance
Task
Interim Assessments
• Can be administered at any time during the school year
• Delivered online but not currently adaptive.
– Fixed forms with the intent to become adaptive – Students taking both an ICAs and IABs may see
some of the same items.
• ICAs include performance tasks.
• Adheres to Usability, Accessibility, and
Accommodations Guidelines
Interim Assessment Design Principles
• ICAs and IABs are available at grades 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and high school (11)
• Administration is not constrained by grade level – For example, a fifth grade ICA/IAB can be
administered to grades above or below fifth grade.
– ICAs are constructed consistent with summative blueprint.
• High school
– ICAs/IABs can be used at grades 9, 10, 11, and/or 12
Interim Assessment Scoring
• Interim assessments will have the same item types as summative
– Automatically scored (e.g., Multiple Choice and Hot Text) – Hand scoring is a local (school/classroom) responsibility
• Scoring materials are available in the Teacher Hand Scoring System (THSS) within the WCAP portal
• For Fall 2015, THSS opens on September 2
