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Smarter BalancedSample Items and Performance Tasks
OSPI – Assessment and Student Information
October 11, 2012
Today’s Topics
• Website and teaser item
• CCSS context for these items and Smarter Balanced tests
• Navigating Sample Item webpage
• Resources for reviewing– Customer support– FAQ
• Smarter Balanced timeline
Sample ItemsSmarter Balanced Website
• http://www.smarterbalanced.org/sample-items-and-performance-tasks/
Sample Item Teaser
• The Contest
Purpose of Sample Items and Performance Tasks
• Demonstrate rigor and complexity of ELA/literacy and mathematics items
• Showcase variety of item types:• Selected response• Constructed response• Technology enhanced• Performance tasks
• Help teachers continue planning shifts in instruction related to Common Core State Standards (CCSS)
ESEA Flexibility
CAREER AND COLLEGE READY LEARNING EXPECTATIONS FOR K-12 All
students leave high
school college
and career ready
Vision
Purpose Core Values
Every Washington Student and Educator
Our Vision: Every student will have access to the CCSS standards through high quality instruction aligned with the
standards every day; and every educator is prepared and supported to implement
the standards in their classrooms every day.
Our Purpose: To develop a statewide system with resources that supports all school districts in their
preparation of educators and students to implement the CCSS.
Common Core State Standards (CCSS) Implementation Timeline
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2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15
Phase 1: CCSS Exploration
Phase 2: Build Awareness & Begin Building Statewide Capacity
Phase 3: Build State & District Capacity and Classroom Transitions
Phase 4: Statewide Application and Assessment
Ongoing: Statewide Coordination and Collaboration to Support Implementation
Smarter Balanced Assessment System
Components
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Common Core State Standards specify
K-12 expectatio
ns 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 and learning
Interim assessments Flexible, open,
used for actionable feedback
Summative assessments
Benchmarked to college and career
readiness
Teacher resources for
formative assessment
practicesto improve instruction
Exploring the Sample Items
Key features of Sample Item Tool
• Mathematics and English Language Arts/Literacy items
• Computer Adaptive Testing items and Performance Tasks:
• Selected response
• Constructed response
• Technology enhanced
• Meta-data for each item
• On the spot scoring for many items
• Items and tasks will be similar for summative and interim assessments
Sample Items and Tasks Navigation
View English Language Arts/Literacy or Mathematics items
Advance to next item, or go back to previous
http://sampleitems.smarterbalanced.org/itempreview/sbac/ELA.htm
“Students can demonstrate progress toward college and career readiness in English Language arts and literacy.”
“Students can demonstrate college and career readiness in English language arts and literacy.”
“Students can read closely and analytically to comprehend a range of increasingly complex literary and informational texts.”
“Students can produce effective and well-grounded writing for a range of purposes and audiences.”
“Students can employ effective speaking and listening skills for a range of purposes and audiences.”
“Students can engage in research and inquiry to investigate topics, and to analyze, integrate, and present information.”
Overall Claim for Grades 3-8
Overall Claim for Grade 11
Claim #1 - Reading
Claim #2 - Writing
Claim #3 - Speaking and Listening
Claim #4 - Research/Inquiry
Claims for the ELA/Literacy Summative Assessment
Sample Items and Tasks Navigation
Content Claim
Grade band
http://sampleitems.smarterbalanced.org/itempreview/sbac/ELA.htm
ELA ComparisonWashington State & Smarter Balanced
Similarities DifferencesMultiple Choice/Selected Response
Short Answer/Constructed Response
Online
Essay Writing
Computer Adaptive
Listening Items
Text Complexity
Brief Write, Revise and Edit
Performance Tasks
Technology EnhancedVocabulary Grade 4 Item
http://sampleitems.smarterbalanced.org/itempreview/sbac/ELA.htm
Measurements of Student Progress Reading Vocabulary Item
Listening Task
http://sampleitems.smarterbalanced.org/itempreview/sbac/ELA.htm
Item MetadataAbout this item
Evidence
Note the Common Core standards connected to
this target
Access information on text complexity
View the rubric
http://sampleitems.smarterbalanced.org/itempreview/sbac/ELA.htm
Scoring Rubric
Item
Item Rubric
http://sampleitems.smarterbalanced.org/itempreview/sbac/ELA.htm
Text Complexity Analysis
The Placemat
Brief Write with Text Evidence
High School Proficiency Exam Writing Grade 10
Persuasive Argumentative Writing
• Experience-based persuasive prompt
CurfewsCommunity officials have proposed that individuals under the age of 18 cannot be out after 9:00 p.m. unless they are with an adult. Take a position on this proposal. Write a multiple-paragraph letter persuading community officials to support your position.
Smarter Balanced Grade 11 Performance Task
• Smarter Balanced – Nuclear Power
– Source-based performance task• 20-minute classroom activity (accessibility)
• Part I: Research and evaluate sources (take notes and answer questions)
• Part II: Write argumentative essay citing evidence from sources
Performance Task:Classroom Activity
http://www.smarterbalanced.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/performance-tasks/nuclear.pdf
Performance Task:Introduction to Activity
http://www.smarterbalanced.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/performance-tasks/nuclear.pdf
Performance Task:
Research
http://www.smarterbalanced.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/performance-tasks/nuclear.pdf
Performance Task:Research (continued)
http://www.smarterbalanced.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/performance-tasks/nuclear.pdf
Performance Task:Research Questions
http://www.smarterbalanced.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/performance-tasks/nuclear.pdf
http://www.smarterbalanced.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/performance-tasks/nuclear.pdf
Performance Task:Argumentative Essay Assignment
http://www.smarterbalanced.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/performance-tasks/nuclear.pdf
Performance Task:Essay Scoring Criteria
“Students can demonstrate progress toward college and career readiness in mathematics.”
“Students can demonstrate college and career readiness in mathematics.”
“Students can explain and apply mathematical concepts and interpret and carry out mathematical procedures with precision and fluency.”
“Students can solve a range of complex well-posed problems in pure and applied mathematics, making productive use of knowledge and problem solving strategies.”
“Students can clearly and precisely construct viable arguments to support their own reasoning and to critique the reasoning of others.”
“Students can analyze complex, real-world scenarios and can construct and use mathematical models to interpret and solve problems.”
Overall Claim for Grades 3-8
Overall Claim for Grade 11
Claim #1 - Concepts & Procedures
Claim #2 - Problem Solving
Claim #3 - Communicating Reasoning
Claim #4 - Modeling and Data Analysis
Claims for the Mathematics Summative Assessment
Smarter Balanced Grade 5 Item
http://sampleitems.smarterbalanced.org/itempreview/sbac/index.htm
Measurements of Student Progress Grade 5 Mathematics
Item Find the quotient.
9,018 ÷ 3
What is the quotient?A. 36B. 306
C. 3,006
Smarter Balanced Grade 8 Item
http://sampleitems.smarterbalanced.org/itempreview/sbac/index.htm
Smarter Balanced High School Item
http://sampleitems.smarterbalanced.org/itempreview/sbac/index.htm
Mathematics End of Course ExamItem
The cylinder shown has a volume of 36 cubic feet.
What is the height of the cylinder?
2 ft
Smarter Balanced High School Item
http://sampleitems.smarterbalanced.org/itempreview/sbac/index.htm
Item ScoreSelected response and technology enhanced items are machine scorable
http://sampleitems.smarterbalanced.org/itempreview/sbac/index.htm
Sample Items and Tasks NavigationFilter by item type, themes
http://sampleitems.smarterbalanced.org/itempreview/sbac/index.htm
Sample Items and Tasks NavigationFilter by item type, themes
http://sampleitems.smarterbalanced.org/itempreview/sbac/index.htm
Feedback and Support available through first week of November
Online feedback and phone support available
Additional Resources
• http://www.smarterbalanced.org/sample-items-and-performance-tasks
/
• FAQ
• Washington State Lead:
Accessibility and Accommodations
• Sample items do not include accessibility and
accommodations features
• Full range of accessibility tools and accommodations
options under development guided by:– Magda Chia, Ph.D., Director of Support for Under-Represented
Students
– Accessibility and Accommodations Work Group
– Students with Disabilities Advisory Committee
• Chair: Martha Thurlow (NCEO)
– English Language Learners Advisory Committee
– Accessibility & Accommodations Framework
• Learn more online:
http://www.smarterbalanced.org/parents-students/support-for-under-represented-students/
Smarter Balanced Items Developed with Educators and
Other Experts• Early 2012: Assessment claims for ELA/literacy and mathematics approved by Governing States
• April 2012: Item/task specifications and review guidelines published– http://www.smarterbalanced.org/itemspecs
• June 2012: Training modules available for item writers/reviewers– http://www.smarterbalanced.org/smarter-balanced-assessments/item-writing-and-re
view
• Summer 2012: Educators from Governing States begin writing items and tasks; cognitive labs / small scale trials begin
• September 2012: Sample items reviewed by Smarter Balanced staff and advisors, Student Achievement Partners
• October 2012: Sample items and tasks available
• February / March 2013: Pilot Test of first 10,000 items and performance tasks
Our guiding beliefs and approach for CCSS Implementation in WA
2-Prongs:
1. The What: Content Shifts (for students and educators)– Belief that past standards implementation efforts have provided a
strong foundation on which to build for CCSS; HOWEVER there are
shifts that need to be attended to in the content.
2. The How: System “Remodeling”– Belief that successful CCSS implementation will not take place top
down or bottom up – it must be “both, and…”
– Belief that districts and communities across the state have the
conditions and commitment present to engage wholly in this work.
– Professional learning systems are critical
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Shifts in ELA1. Building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction and informational
texts in addition to literature2. Reading and writing grounded in evidence from the text3. Regular practice with complex text and its academic vocabularyThese apply to content area (social studies, science, and technical subject) teachers as well as to English teachers.
Shifts in Mathematics1. Focus: 2-3 topics focused on deeply in each grade 2. Coherence: Concepts logically connected from one grade to the next
and linked to other major topics within the grade3. Rigor: Fluency with arithmetic, application of knowledge to real world
situations, and deep understanding of mathematical concepts
The “What”:ELA and Math Content Shifts
Smarter Balanced Timeline(Summative tests)
• 47 districts invited to conduct Small Scale Trials in October/November 2012
• Limited pilot in 2012-13– Need 22% of state– Available to all
• Comprehensive field test in 2013-14
• Operational use in 2014-15
Testing System Transition
Current Testing System
• Reading and Math: Grades 3–8 and 10
• Writing: Grades 4, 7, 10
• Science: Grades 5, 8, 10
SMARTER Balanced (SBAC) / Common Core State
Standards (CCSS) Testing System
• English/Language Arts and Math: Grade 3–8 and 11*
• Science exams are required under ESEA but are not
included in SBAC
*11th grade to measure college and career readiness. We are working with higher ed to explore the possible use of these measures as an alternative for college placement (or entrance).
Current StatewideSummative (Student) Assessments
Reading Mathematics Science Writing
Grade 3 MSP MSP
Grade 4 MSP MSP MSP
Grade 5 MSP MSP MSP
Grade 6 MSP MSP
Grade 7 MSP MSP MSP
Grade 8 MSP MSP MSP
High School HSPE EOC EOC HSPE
MSP= Measurements of Student Progress; HSPE = High School Proficiency Exams; EOC= End of Course exams
Washington’s Context…Likely Summative Assessments in
2014–15English/LA Mathematics Science
Grade 3 SBAC SBAC
Grade 4 SBAC SBAC
Grade 5 SBAC SBAC MSP
Grade 6 SBAC SBAC
Grade 7 SBAC SBAC
Grade 8 SBAC SBAC MSP
Grade 10 E/LA using SBAC items
EOCs using SBAC items
EOC
Grade 11 SBAC SBACSBAC=SMARTER Balanced Assessment ConsortiumEOCs= End of Course exams
* SBAC is vertically scaled; MSP/HSPE are not.
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Questions?
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Feedback and Support available through first week of November
Online feedback and phone support available