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The Rhode Island Alternate Assessment (RIAA)
ScienceSeptember, 2014
Northern Rhode Island Collaborative, Lincoln, RI
Agenda• Welcome & Introductions
• Changes in the alternate assessment system
• RIAA Science
• Lunch
• ProFile: creating accounts, registering students, giving access to administrators
• Changes to graduation requirements
• NCSC Pilot Test
• PARCC overview
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Changes in the Alternate Assessment Program
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Grade NCSC Pilot Test 2 RIAA Science NCSC OperationalELA, Math Science ELA, Math
2 not tested not tested not tested
3 not tested* not tested Yes - Required
4 Yes (gr 3 test) Yes - Required Yes - Required
5 Yes (gr 4 test not tested Yes - Required
6 Yes (gr 5 test) not tested Yes - Required
7 Yes (gr 6 test) not tested Yes - Required
8 Yes (gr 7 test) Yes - Required Yes - Required
9 Yes (gr 8 test) not tested not tested
10 not tested not tested not tested
11 not tested* Yes - Required Yes - Required
12 Yes (gr 11 test) not tested not tested
Test Window Oct. 20 – Nov. 15 Sept. 29 – May 3 March 30 – May 15
Teacher Training Dates
October 8 and 15 September 23 and 24 TBD
Change in Standards for All Tests
NECAP RIAA
GLEs and AAGSEs
PARCC
Core Content Connectors
Common Core State Standards
NCSC
Comparing RIAA and NCSCRIAA NCSC
Test Type: Portfolio Adaptive
Grade Levels:
2-8 and 10-11 3-8 and 11
Content Areas:
Reading, Writing, Math, Science
ELA (incl. Writing), Math
Timing: Year-long Month-long in Spring
Standards: AAGSEs: grade spans CCSS: discrete grade levels
Eligibility: Remains the same
Teacher time:
Demanding: Develop assessment activities, write
narratives.
Lighter: some preparation for accommodations and materials for each item.
Scoring: Teacher scores activities Teacher scores some CRs
Results: Highly individualized content and activities
(group comparisons are difficult)
Standardized content(group comparisons will be
easier)
Ways students participate in state assessments:
1.General education assessment without accommodations (PARCC/NECAP Science)
2.General education assessment with accommodations (PARCC/NECAP Science)
3.Alternate assessments (NCSC/RIAA Science)
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Who takes the alternate assessment?
• Students with significant cognitive disabilities who meet the eligibility criteria
• Make up about 1% of the student population
• Disability impacts all domains of learning
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Eligibility for the RIAA (page 5)
• Eligibility should have already been determined by the start of RIAA Science testing.
• IEP Team Guidance for Eligibility for the RIAA ▫Guidance was reviewed by teachers and special
education directors.▫For ALL members of the IEP Team.▫No ONE person should be responsible for making
eligibility decisions.▫Guidance document was sent through the listserv.
The Structure of RIAA Science
Inquiry Construct
Content Standard (AAGSE)
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“doing” science;
investigation
“learning” science; content
Inquiry Entry
Knowledge Entry
Alternate Assessment Grade Span Expectations in Science (AAGSEs)
• Developed from Grade Span Expectations in Science assessed on NECAP science
• Developed in cooperation with RI teachers
• Knowledge and skills that students should know and be able to do.
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Science Inquiry Entry Structure (page 15)
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Science Knowledge Entry Structure (page 15)
AAGSE Entry Components
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Data Summary
Sheet
Student Documentation
Form (LS)*
Student Documentation
Form (ESS)*
Student Work(can be any
collection period)
Student Documentation
Form (PS)*
* Science domains can be assessed in any order as long as all three are covered over the course of the year.
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How do I choose an AAGSEs to assess? (page 16)
• Select the inquiry construct you want to assess first.• Select one AAGSE for each of the three science
domains being assessed (Chapter 6 of your manual)1. Earth and Space Science2. Physical Science3. Life Science
• Make sure you understand the content!! • Make sure you have the resources and tools
available to you to assess the standard appropriately.• Consider student strengths, needs, and interests.
Understanding InquiryConstructs:
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Inquiry Constructs (page 18)
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Assessed Inquiry Constructs by Grade
Grade1. Observing/Questioning 2. Planning 3. Conducting 4. Analyzing
4Make and describe
observations in order to ask a question or make a prediction related to the
science investigation.
Follow procedures or use appropriate equipment or
measurement devices accurately to record qualitative
or quantitative data.
8Identify information or
evidence that needs to be collected or tools to be used
in order to answer a question or check a prediction.
Use data to summarize results.
11Use accepted methods of
organizing, representing, or manipulating data.
Use evidence to support and/or justify
interpretations or conclusions or explain how the evidence refutes their prediction or hypothesis.
Step 1: Observing/Questioning (page 16)
Make and describe observations in order to ask a question or make a prediction related to the science investigation.
Students learn more about the subject: • Watch (observe) animals, the sun, the
stars, ice to water which turns to steam,…plants grow, documentaries, movies, etc.…
• Read books, articles, etc…
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Step 2: Planning (page 16)
Identify information or evidence that needs to be collected or tools to be used in order to answer a question or check a prediction.
•Tools to be used ▫ tangible items
• Information to be collected ▫sources of information, times, frequency of data collection▫What they will collect ▫number of something, temperature, people with a certain
trait, etc.
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Step 3: Conducting (page 17)
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Grade 4: Follow procedures or use appropriate equipment or measurement devices accurately to record qualitative or quantitative data.1. Procedures: How the student collected data2. Equipment/measurement devices: How and what the
student recorded the data on their datasheet3. Others?
Grade 8: Use data to summarize results.4. Numerical (quantitative data)5. Observational (non-numerical data)
Grade 11: Use accepted methods of organizing, representing, or manipulating data.6. Organizing: uses data sheets, groupings of observations.7. Representing/manipulating: tables, graphs, pictures, etc.
Step 4: Analyzing (page 17)
Use evidence to support and/or justify interpretations or conclusions or explain how the evidence refutes the hypothesis.
•Involves looking at the data and making decisions.
•Uses data to respond to the investigation question.
•Analyzing is not recording data on the data sheet.
•Analyzing is not answering questions about the data.
▫How many people in class have dogs?
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Check your understanding
Applying what you’ve learned
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Answers
1. Correct answer is B.
2. Correct answer is A.
3. Correct answer is A.
4. What did you decide?
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How to write up the Inquiry Entry
Describe the inquiry construct clearly.Convey how the student was assessed.Ensure that description clearly shows how the data was collected.
Student Documentation Form (SDF): (page 30)
• One SDF for each collection period (3 total)• Collection Period 1: Life Science• Collection Period 2: Physical Science• Collection Period 3: Earth Space Science
• Reflects how the student demonstrates his/her knowledge and is assessed on the Inquiry Construct
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3 4
Whole-Class Description
Student-Level Description
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1: Describing the Science Investigation
•Whole-class description•Clear and concise description of each of
the four components of the investigation.
•This section should be the same for both Inquiry and Knowledge entries (i.e., cut-and-paste).
2: What did the student do his/herself during the
investigation?
Describe, using specific examples, how the individual student demonstrated his or her inquiry construct skills during the investigation.
Description of what the student did Clear and concise
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3 & 4: Evaluate the student’s Accuracy and Independence
•Accuracy: Clear description of the student’s correct and incorrect answers related to the Inquiry Construct.
• Independence: Clear description of the assistance provided to the student for each answer related to the Inquiry Construct.
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How to write up the Knowledge Entry
Describe the AAGSE activity clearly.Convey how the student was assessed.Ensure that the description clearly shows how the data was collected.
Knowledge Entry
Three Science Domains
1. Life Science (LS)
2. Physical Science (PS)
3. Earth and Space Science (ESS)
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3 4
Whole-Class Description
Student-Level Description
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1: Describing the Science Investigation
• Whole-class description• Clear and concise description of each of
the four components of the investigation.
• This section should be the same for both Inquiry and Knowledge entries (i.e., cut-and-paste).
2: What did the student do him/herself during the investigation?
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Describe, using specific examples, how the individual student demonstrated the AAGSE during the investigation.
Description of what the student did Clear and concise
3 & 4: Evaluate the student’s Accuracy and Independence
•Accuracy: Clear description of the student’s correct and incorrect answers related to the AAGSE.
• Independence: Clear description of the assistance provided to the student for each answer related to the AAGSE.
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Science Investigation Activity:
Select an Inquiry ConstructChoose an AAGSE and plan an investigation
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Select at least one of the AAGSEs below (or from the list in the back of your manual) and outline an investigation using the worksheet.
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• ESS 1.1.3: Compare different soils to each other using their physical properties
• ESS 2.1.1: Identify the major effects the sun has on the earth.
• LS 1.1.1: Distinguish between living and non-living things.
• PS 1.1.1: Distinguish the physical properties of matter.
• PS 1.3.1: Demonstrate an understanding of mass.
How to Complete the Data Summary Sheet (DSS)
Data Summary Sheet Includes:
• Data over the year in the following categories:
Level of Accuracy Level of Independence Levels of Assistance
• Data points Three data points in each collection period
Each data point is from a different day▫One data point is a narrative written on the Student Documentation Form (SDF).
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Accuracy, Assistance, and Independence
Level of Accuracy
Example:# of times the skill is correct
#of times the skill is attempted
“James was given 2 opportunities to show that the data he collected showed that living things breathe. He was correct 1 out of 2 times for an accuracy rate of 50%.”
1/2 = 50%
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Level of Independence
Example:
“The student performed [the skill; what is being measured] independently 1 out of 5 opportunities.”
1 out of 5 independently 1/5 = 20%
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Levels of Assistance
• Are prompt hierarchies/instructional prompts
• Facilitates the completion of a task
• Individualized for each student
• Fade and/or modify as a student progresses toward independence
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Examples of Levels of Assistance Gestural Prompt (GP) Prompts of a nonverbal nature that help students respond and
provides them with cues related to the content of the activity.
Verbal Prompt (VP) Spoken statements that help students respond and provides them with cues related to the content of the activity.
Model (M) Requires the teacher to demonstrate a desired behavior in order to prompt an imitative response.
Partial Physical Prompt (PPP)
Physically guides the students through the target skill/task, but at a less intrusive level (hand-over-wrist, elbow, shoulder)
Full Physical Prompt (FPP)
Requires the teacher to place his/her hand on top of student's hand and physically guide the student through the target behavior/task (hand-over-hand). The teacher, rather than the student, exerts the effort, which minimizes errors.
Entering the Level of Assistance
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Choose three prompts for each student and arrange them from least invasive to most when you enter them into ProFile.
1.Verbal prompt (VP)
2.Wrist prompt (PPP)
3.HOH prompt (FPP)
Connection between Levels of Independence and Assistance
• 1 out of 5 opportunities independent 1/5 = 20%
• 0 out of 5 with verbal prompts 0/5 = 0%
• 2 out of 5 with partial physical prompts 2/5 = 40%
• 2 out of 5 with full physical prompts 2/5 = 40%
100%*
*Must add up to 100%.
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Choosing and Submitting Student Work
Student Work Product Criteria: (page 35) • completed by the student.• graded and initialed by the teacher. • Graded in a way that is clear what is and is not
correct. Scorers will not spend time trying to figure out how a teacher graded something.
• ONE piece of student work should be submitted for the science knowledge entry and one for the inquiry entry. If more than one is submitted, the first student work product will be used for scoring.
• Examples of work products include drawings or writings, worksheets, journal entries, projects, lab reports, and data sheets.
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Photograph Criteria: (page 35) • A photograph of the student participating in the science investigation, not a picture of the student standing next to the finished product, is the only acceptable photograph.
• Multiple photographs are acceptable.• An explanation of the student’s participation must be
included on the Photograph Evidence Documentation form. This form can be found in ProFile. To activate the form, click the box under the heading on the SDF. Activate the form on each SDF for each collection period if you are unsure which piece of evidence to submit. This way you will have access to the form, whether or not you need it. NOTE: If you didn’t activate the form and you would like to include student work for that collection period, you may type or hand-write a description and include it with the photograph. This is the ONLY part of the datafolio that can be hand-written.
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Student Work Product Label: (page 35)
• The optional Student Work Product Label was designed as a reminder to include the required data for student work. Some things to keep in mind:▫ It is a tool to ensure all information is included; it is NOT
required to submit student work.▫ If a Student Work Product Label is used, that information
must correspond to the graded student work attached. ▫ One sheet of labels will be shipped to schools with binder
materials. ▫ More labels can be printed from the RIDE website at
www.ride.ri.gov/RIAA and click on the “RIAA” tab.▫ Measured Progress will not ship additional labels to you.
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Student Work Product Label
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*The student work product must clearly show incorrect/correct answers in addition to accuracy calculation.
PS3.2.1a: Identify objects that are or are not attracted to magnets.
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LS1.1.1c: Discriminate between a living and a non-living things
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Correcting Mistakes (page 32)
• ProFile changes to minimize entry errors• No white out for whole sentences• No tape, glue, etc.• Blank cells stay blank.• Page 32 for an example…just cross out
and write above.
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Other Forms
Table of Contents Checklist – Page 37FERPA Form – Page 38 & 39Affirmation of Test Security – Page 40
RIAA Science Calendar (inside front cover)
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ProFile
Creating your accountRegistering StudentsTransferring studentsContacting the Help DeskContacting RIDE