Lynn Vásquez Director of Assessment January 2019

1. Summative Assessment Transition Information for Educators Lynn Vásquez Director of Assessment January 2019

2. Spring 2019 Summative Math & ELA Transition Assessment Memorandum As stated in the January 10, memorandum, the transition assessment is: • 1 to 1.5 hours shorter per subject area, reducing overall testing time up to 30%. • comparable to prior year’s results, with five reporting categories. • delivered on the same platform and during the April 22-May 10 scheduled window. A new test will be developed for 2019-20 SY, which will have a new name, TBD.

3. Spring 2019 Summative Math & ELA Transition Assessment Key Messages for Educators • Teachers should continue to do what they do best: teach content with high rigor that is aligned to our adopted New Mexico Common Core Standards (NMCCSS). • The test is called the Spring 2019 New Mexico Standards-Based Transition Assessment of Mathematics and English Language Arts.  This test is fully aligned to NMCCSS. • This is not the same assessment as the old New Mexico SBA for Math and Reading from years past. The prior test was aligned to the former New Mexico Standards and Benchmarks.    • New Mexico is no longer using the PARCC test blueprint or PARCC test design. • A new test blueprint has been developed and there are similarities in test design and structure in order to maintain comparability.

4. Spring 2019 Summative Math & ELA Transition Assessment Comparability Message • This is a transition assessment created with linking items that have undergone educator reviews for content, bias and sensitivity, and field testing. • Linking items are items that have been utilized on prior operational forms or were field tested on the spring 2018 forms to allow for comparability, rather than starting from a new baseline. • This results in parents, educators, and public officials being able to compare spring 2018 and prior scores to spring 2019 scores. • All publicly available resources (e.g., online practice sites) for prior administrations are still appropriate for use as preparation and practice for the Spring 2019 transition assessment. • The transition assessments will be administered in TestNav and managed through PearsonAccessNext.

5. Comparability

6. Spring 2019 Assessment Transition Quick Links

7. Spring 2019 Transition Assessment English Language Arts Design & Unit Times Students are assigned either Form A or Form B

8. Spring 2019 Transition Assessment English Language Arts Design • All items will be deeply aligned to the New Mexico Common Core State Standards. • ELA passages and items are developed in accordance with the National Council of Teachers of English Standards for the Assessment of Reading and Writing. • All units will include reading comprehension and vocabulary items. • A writing component will be included in each unit. • All students will complete oneunit with a research simulation task. • All students will complete one unit based on Literature. This may be a literary analysis task or narrative task with an extra passage, depending of the form students are assigned.

9. Spring 2019 Transition Assessment English Language Arts Design • Students will read a range of both Literature and Informational texts. • Students will be ask to write about texts they read. • Each unit will contain the following item types: • Evidence-based selected responses with Part A and Part B • Drag and drop, choose response from drop down, shared text, move items to show relationships • A prose constructed written response 

10. Spring 2019 Mathematics Design & Unit Times 3 Hours for all grades

11. Spring 2019 Transition Assessment Math Design • All items will be deeply aligned to the NMCCSS. • Mathematics items are developed in accordance with principles and practices endorsed by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. • Starting at grade 6, all assessed grades/subjects contain calculator and non calculator sections/units. • All unit components include short answer and constructed response items.  • The constructed response items will assess the SMP’s (Standards for Mathematical Practice).

12. Spring 2019 Transition Assessment Math Design • There will be a grade level appropriate calculator as a drop-down online.  Additionally, students may use a physical grade level appropriate calculator. • The Grade 8 and Geometry assessment allows students to bring in mathematical tools that are used in the instruction as tools to use in the assessment (example:  patty paper, reflection tools, rulers, protractors). • Scrap paper and graph paper are optional, yet essential in all grades.

13. Important Dates *Subject to change

14. Publicly Available New Mexico Assessment Resources Support Page http://nm.mypearsonsupport.com NM Support page accessible 2/1/2019

15. Publicly Available New Mexico Assessment Resources Support Page nm.digitalitemlibrary.com • Released 2/1/2019 • Access to high quality math and ELA items • Ability to search test items by grade, content area, evidence statement, and task type • Coming Soon: Teachers will have the ability to create formative “testlettes” and administer formatives in TestNav • Professional development will be provided

16. Spring 2019 Transition Assessment Performance Levels Remain the Same for Comparability The Spring 2019 results still inform a level of career and post secondary readiness

17. Reports and Data • Transition Assessment Individual Student Report (ISR) • Transition Assessment School Roster Report • Transition Assessment District Summary Report • Transition Assessment District and School Summative Files • Transition Assessment Performance Level Summary Report • Transition Assessment Evidence Statement Analysis Report • Transition Assessment Content Standards Roster Report

18. Publicly Available Accessibility Features and Accommodations The Spring 2019 New Mexico AF&A Manual will be available at http://nm.mypearsonsupport.com on 2/1/2019 Quick Reference Version at PED Website: https://webnew.ped.state.nm.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/FINAL_Accessibility-Accommodations-Features.pdf • Accessibility Features for all Students • Administrative Considerations • Accommodations for Students with Disabilities • Accommodations for English Learners

19. Accommodations Must: • Enable students to participate with equal access. • Be based on individual needs identified in the instructional/assessment setting. • Be documented in either the IEP or 504 Plan and EL Plan. • For English learners, who needs an EL accommodation, be described and documented in the student’s file. • Be utilized during daily instruction. • Parents receive notification.

20. Text-To-Speech Accessibility vs Accommodations on Assessments

21. PearsonAccessnext (PAN) • Live Site: https://nm.pearsonaccessnext.com • Training Site: http://trng-nm.pearsonaccessnext.com Training site will be available 2/1/2019

22. Future Summative Assessment2019-20 SY • Comparability of results over time still a primary driver for assessment design. This matters to stakeholders. • Item & Bias Review meetings will be held in Albuquerque May/June: TBA. • Stakeholder engagement meetings on future assessment designs are being planned.

23. PED Policy: ped.assessment@state.nm.us