California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress CAASPP

1. Insert Your School Logo California Assessment of Student Performance and ProgressCAASPP

2. Current Situation • 2014 -15: Transition Year • In this first year of SBAC testing, parents and guardians will naturally have questions • Staff are on the front line of communicating with parents. As the easiest person to ask for clarification and answers, teachers are in the hot seat • Staff need clear responses to parent questions and concerns • Consistent messages help mitigate confusion and the ability of critics to use inconsistency to muddle and complicate the story.

3. We are Preparing for a New Future • Our students will live and work in the world of tomorrow • We have updated our curriculum to match the demands students will face in college and careers • Tomorrow’s need? Workers who are: • Adaptable • Can apply knowledge to unpredictable problems • Can find information, assess its value and integrate it to arrive at creative solutions

4. We have built up to this moment • Implementation of the new approach has been a process • Teachers have been learning new instructional practices (PBL, SEAL) • The curriculum has been aligned to the CCSS (Engage New York, CPM) • Now the annual test will give us a measure of our progress in CCSS

5. The Assessment is like your child’s regular check-up with the pediatrician • Provides a consistent check on progress -Is the student meeting expected milestones? • Allows teachers and parents to measure growth year to year • Provides information that teachers and parents can act on – is focused support needed?

6. TestsProvide Information • Information is used to show us where we need to improve teaching • Information is used to target support before students fall too behind • The annual test is one measure: Other measures of student learning include chapter tests, classroom projects and formative assessment

7. Time on SBAC • Less than 1% of the school year is spent on the annual statewide test • Since the test measures the skills and knowledge we teach all year, there is no focus on test preparation • There’s no time limit for the statewide test; students have the time they need to show what they know and can do

8. What’s New about State TestingCAASPP & SBAC

9. Computer Adaptive Testing (CAT):Philosophy “Computer adaptive testing (CAT) holds the potential for more customized assessment with test questions that are tailored to the students’ ability levels, and identification of students’ skills and weaknesses using fewer questions and requiring less testing time.”Shorr, P. W. (2002, Spring). A look at tools for assessment and accountability. Administrator Magazine.

10. How Does a CAT Work? • Each student is administered a set of test questions that is appropriately challenging. • The student’s performance on the test questions determines if subsequent questions are harder or easier. • The test adapts to the student item-by-item. • Fewer test questions are needed as compared to a fixed form to obtain precise estimates of students’ ability.

11. ELA and Math Performance Tasks (PTs) • In Smarter Balanced, a PT and classroom activity on a given topic are administered as well as the CAT. • PTs are administered at the classroom/group level so they are not targeted to students’ specific ability level. • The items associated with the PTs may be scored by machine or by human raters.

12. Final Scoring • For each student, the responses from the PT and CAT portions are merged for final scaled score. • Resulting ability estimates are based on the specific test questions that a student answered, not the total number of items answered correctly. • Higher ability estimates are associated with test takers who correctly answer difficult and more discriminating items. • Lower ability estimates are associated with test takers who correctly answer easier and less discriminating items. • Two students will have the same ability estimate if they have the same set of test questions with the same responses. • It is possible for students to have the same ability estimate through different response patterns. • This type of scoring is called “Item Pattern Scoring.”

13. Assesses Desired Skills • Problem Solving Perseverance • Application of Knowledge • Listening • Reading Complex Texts • Research • Real-world math tasks

14. New Problem Types: More Engaging - 4th Grade Math Click and Drag animation

15. New Problem Types: Challenging Tasks – 5th Grade Math “Analyze the class plan and determine an alternative that will help make the most of the available area “ • Drawn from real life • Requires multiple steps • No one right answer

16. New Problem Types:Listening Questions – 7th Grade ELA Listen to the presentation Audio glossaries for words above grade level Asks students to provide evidence for answers

17. Meaning in Context – 11th Grade ELA Choose the best two words to replace the underlined word More than one answer

18. Unique Accessibility Features: Example - Pop Up Glossary Roll cursor over shadowed words –glossary pops up

19. Unique Accessibility Features: Example - American Sign Language Videos

20. Student SBAC Results

21. Results: Last Year’s vs. This Year’s • It’s Like Apples and Oranges – you can’t compare • The previous test measured different skills, in a different way

22. Exceeded the Standard Met the Standard Overall Scores – 2 Content Areas, 4 Levels English Language Arts and Mathematics Level 4 Level 3 Level 2 Level 1 Nearly Met the Standard Has Not Met the Standard

23. Smarter Balanced Scaled Score Ranges by Grade Level

24. Smarter Balanced Scale Score Ranges for ELA/Literacy Levels

25. Smarter Balanced Scale Score Ranges for Mathematics Levels

26. English Language Arts Reading Writing Speaking & Listening Research/Inquiry Mathematics Concepts & Procedures Problem Solving Communicating Reasoning Modeling & Data Analysis Additional Scores – CLAIMS Above Standard Above Standard At/Near Standard At/Near Standard Below Standard Below Standard

27. Elements of the Student Score Report Back Page Front Page 5 1 2 3 6 7 4 8

28. Elements of the Student Score Report Front Page 1

29. Elements of the Student Score Report Front Page 2

30. Elements of the Student Score Report Front Page 3

31. Elements of the Student Score Report Front Page 4

32. Elements of the Student Score Report Back Page 5

33. Elements of the Student Score Report Back Page 6

34. Back Page Elements of the Student Score Report 7

35. Elements of the Student Score Report: ScienceGrades 5, 8, & 10 only Back Page 8