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Elementary School BAC Training

2013 FALL TESTING

JCPS TESTING UNIT

Jacque Queenan – Assessment Support Technician

Tammy Durham – Clerk II

Ryan Goepper – Data Management/Research Technician

Jessica Lyons – Data Management/Research Technician

Donna Heun– Data Management/Research Technician

Erica Thompson – District Assessment Coordinator 2

Testing Unit location 3001 Crittenden Drive, Building 7(Entrance just beyond Gate 3 - Kentucky Exposition Center

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Topics for Today• General Assessment Updates• Alternate K-PREP/Alternate Assessment

Administration Code• Advance Program Testing• Administration Code Training• Inclusion of Special Populations Training

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General Assessment Updates

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REQUIRED TESTING FOR SPECIAL POPULATIONS

• Alternate Assessment (1%)• ACCESS for English Language Learners

• W-APT• ESL teachers in 39 schools will train for and administer the required WIDA

W-APT this year. This is an effort to test those students who may have been missed by not enrolling through the ESL Intake Center.

• ESL teachers must keep test materials under “single-lock” when not in use.• Marti Kinny’s office is coordinating this effort.

• ACCESS for ELLS• Alternate ACCESS FOR ELLS

OTHER TESTING (High Schools/Special Schools should be administering ANY appropriate test(s) in order to assist a student in becoming college/career ready)• COMPASS, KYOTE• ASVAB, WorkKeys• KOSSA, Industry Certifications

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Key Assessment Themes

• DATA QUALITY—collaborative process between OAA and school/district staff to ensure accurate reporting of test results

• TEST SECURITY—checks and processes to monitor appropriate administration of state-required tests

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Timeline for ReportingAll dates are

tentative.

Data Quality

Accurate student level information• Infinite Campus and • Student Data Review and Rosters (SDRR) Application

• Test Rosters• Data Review

• Before public reporting—September 23-27 release to schools

• After public reporting—10 days after public release

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Test Security• Seating Charts will be required for all state-required test

administrations.

• Seating charts are required for optional tests that will be included in accountability if the test is administered by the school.

• Testing Unit will collect and maintain in case of potential investigations.

• Customized seating charts are on our Testing Unit website.

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Administration Code and Inclusion Regulations Training

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Test Security

• Ensuring training of appropriate school/district staff in testing regulations:

• Administration Code• Inclusion Regulation

• 2009 versions are the most current.• FYI – Regulations being opened for revision this

year BUT we will operate under the 2009 version ALL year.

• Use the Allegation Reporting form again this year to report possible violations of either regulation.

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Administration Code and Test Security

• Appropriate training required for anyone administering or assisting with any state assessments.

• Signatures on Administration Code• Documentation of training-group signature form

provided by Testing Unit.

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Inclusion Regulation

• 2009 Inclusion of Special Populations Regulation • Anyone assisting with testing accommodations must be

trained annually• Documentation of training-group signature form provided

by Testing Unit.

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Alternate Assessment Administration Code and Test Security

• Appropriate training required for anyone administering Alternate K-PREP (Attainment Tasks/Transition Attainment Record)

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SCHOOL REPORT CARDKentucky’s System for Data ReportingAnticipated release is the week of September 23rd

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Opening PageWelcome and Links to Additional Information

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• Annual Measurable Objective goal • (1.0 improvement in Overall Score for below

Proficient; .5 improvement for Proficient and above)

• New labels available with two years of data• Progressing and High Progress

• SRC provides more detail • Trend and disaggregated data

SRC New for Year 2

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PearsonAccessReports

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Test Results• Published reports are pre-generated reports and data

extracts. • To view a published report :• Go to Test Results > View Published Reports to see a list of

available reports. • Select “District” or “School” from the View By options set. • Click the organization name to see a list of reports for that

organization. • Click the Report Name to view.

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K-PREP Student Report-Grade 4

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Performance Levels:

N, A, P & Dfor each subject

area

District will receive 2

print copies-

1 school copy

1 parent copy

K-PREP Student Report-Grade 4

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Lexile® and Quantile®

scoresNational Percentile

Ranking

Student Growth

Percentile-New on report

this year (grades 4 – 8 only)

K-PREP Student Listing Report-Grade 6

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Alternate K-PREP

students receive a

total score

K-PREP School Summary Report

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Status of Reporting Category-

New this year

Alternate K-PREP Report-Grade 8

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Attainment Tasks

Results

Alternate K-PREP Report-Grade 8

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Transition Attainment

Record (TAR)Explore (8), Plan (10) and ACT (11)

CIITSContinuous Instructional Improvement Technology System

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CIITS & Assessments

• Supports classroom formative assessments and district/school benchmark assessments.

• Contains professional development opportunities.• Additional items (~2,000) are under review.• Purchased items are correlated(not congruent) to standards.• Any item may be edited or changed by a teacher.• Formative Item Pool (FIP) from QualityCore End-of-Course is

available for the four EOC courses.• A teacher/school/district may choose to share their items and

tests.• Over 150,000 assessments have been created.

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CIITS Assessment Reports• Report Bank contains new pre-formatted reports.• Additional reports will be added as more data becomes

available, such as K-PREP Longitudinal Reporting and College/Career Ready.

• Feedback and suggestions are welcome.

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CIITS CONTAINS VALUBLE ENROLLMENT DATA

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Useful during student

accountability work

BRIGANCE KINDERGARTEN

SCREEN

• Testing window:• 8/5/13 – 10/1/2013

• District Contact: Susan Thurman• susan.thurman@jefferson.kyschools.us

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ALTERNATE K-PREP

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ADVANCE PROGRAM TESTING

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ADMINISTRATION CODE

TRAINING

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INCLUSION OF

SPECIAL POPULATIONS

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Just give us a call or send us an email….

JCPS Testing Unit485-3388

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