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1. WELCOME District Assessment & Accountability Network October 31, 2012 Wireless Access: Network: LACOE-EC-GUEST Password: ABC1234DEF ARUBA Sign-in: User Name: guest Password: guest Los Angeles County Office of Education

2. WELCOME District Assessment & Accountability Network October 31, 2012 Los Angeles County Office of Education

3. State Board of EducationState Board of Education Region 11 Committee Representation • “Bridge” Materials – Norwalk/LaMirada (Shannon Baker) • Title I Committee of Practitioners – Los Angeles, San Gabriel (Christiane Elhabr), Pomona • Math Framework Committee – Whittier City, Santa Monica-Malibu, Alhambra, Las Virgenes • http://www.celdt.org/opportunities/

4. State Board of EducationState Board of Education Item 2 CCSS Professional Development Modules http://www.myboe.org/ http://www.achievethecore.org/ Other Resources CA Ed Research Association – cera-web.org November 28 - 30, 2012 CCSS – Formative Assessment – January 10, 2013 http://www.lacoe.edu/

5. State Board of EducationState Board of Education Item 6 ESEA Reauthorization - RTTT Most Schools

6. California’s State-defined Waiver Submitted June 2012 to the Department of Education Key Elements of the Waiver request: • Transition to a single system of performance goals using the annual API targets as the state’s AMOs • By January 2013 – SBE will consider revisions to the API calculations • By March 2013 – SBE will establish criteria to identify districts and schools targeted for improvement • By July 2013 – SBE will identify sanctions to be imposed on identified districts and schools

7. Computer-based Testing (CBT) • ETS Science – October 2012 • SBAC – Pilot testing, spring 2013 (10,000 items/tasks) – Field testing, spring 2014 (37,000 items/tasks) http://www.smarterbalanced.org/ http://www.tcoe.k12.ca.us/

8. Legislation • Watch for regulations to support the implementation of the new legislation Also… • Revised API & AYP Guides • Grad Rate student group definitions http://data1.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/

9. Formative Tools… “…Formative assessment [provides the student and the teacher] evidence of where students are on their journey toward mastery of the learning outcome.” (p.24) How can I use/How have I used… the tools currently available to support learning at the depth the CCSS and SBAC assessments expect?

10. CST - Grade 4Reading Comprehension (Q3) http://www.starsamplequestions.org The first sentence in Sample B is the topic
sentence. After reading this sentence, you can
tell that this sample will most likely tell about A   why the writer went to Kauai. B   when the writer is going home. C   what the writer did that day. D   which island the writer will visit next.

11. SBAC – Grade 4 Reading for Information (CR) Item Prompt: Write a summary of key events that led to Amelia Earhart becoming a famous pilot. Use details from the passage in your summary to support your answer.

12. Formative Assessment EC 60603 defines formative assessmentas: “Assessment tools and processes that are embedded in instruction and are used by teachers and pupils to provide timely feedback for the purposes of adjusting instruction and to improve learning.”

13. Relationship of Assessments Perie, Marion, Gong, Wurtzel, 2007

14. 2012–13 CALPADS

15. Assessment & Accountability Network 2012 - 2013 Thursday, January 31, 2013 Wednesday, March 27, 2013 Thursday, May 30, 2013 STAR Training Tuesday, January 15, 2013