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Hawaii and Smarter Balanced

Learn about Hawaii's involvement in the development of the Smarter Balanced assessment system, including the contributions of educators and the focus on accessibility and equity. Discover how the system provides actionable data for teachers and schools to improve instruction and help students succeed. Find out about the balanced approach of the system, including summative and interim assessments, and how the results can be used to check student progress, reflect on instruction, and connect with instructional resources.

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Hawaii and Smarter Balanced

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  1. Hawaii and Smarter Balanced September 2018 .

  2. Hawaii’s Assessment System • Since 2010, Hawaii and its educators have been involved in the development of the Smarter Balanced assessment system. This is Hawaii’s assessment. • Since 2014, 240 Hawaii educators have contributed to our assessment system. Educators participate by: • Writing items • Creating and reviewing Digital Library resources • Creating playlists that give suggestions for next steps following student results • Recommending achievement level expectations for students

  3. Video: Hawaii Educators and Smarter Balanced https://youtu.be/SkILSltakU8

  4. This Is Hawaii’s Assessment!

  5. About Smarter Balanced: Led By States

  6. Consortium Members • California • Connecticut • Delaware • Hawaii • Idaho • Michigan • Montana • Nevada • Oregon • South Dakota • Vermont • US Virgin Islands • Washington • Bureau of Indian Education 14 Members

  7. Smarter Balanced is… A member led public agency that is committed to developing a high-quality assessment systemthat provides information and tools for teachers and schools to improve instruction andhelp students succeed —regardless of disability, language, or subgroup. Housed at the University of California, Santa Cruz, College of Extension.

  8. Equity and Accessibility

  9. Equity and Accessibility A core principle of the Smarter Balanced assessment system is accessibility for all studentswho take the test. • Smarter Balanced delivers educators actionable data because the breadth of accessibility features allow a broader array of students to access the content and show what they’ve learned. • Our tests includes accessibility resources that address visual, auditory, language, and physical access barriers, allowing virtually all students to demonstrate what they know and can do. • The breadth of accessibility resources are likely more than any one state could afford on its own. • And we continue to grow: adding languages, illustration glossaries.

  10. Equity and Accessibility Research and Experience Based We work with advisory panels on English language learners and students with disabilities to ensure that the assessments are developed using principles of Universal Design and research-based best practices. Our accessibility resources include: • Braille, • stacked Spanish translations, • videos in American Sign Language, • Pop-up text and glossaries in 10 foreign languages and four dialects, and • translated test directions in 19 languages.

  11. Video: Equity and Accessibility https://youtu.be/g3OiicQoMTk

  12. A Balanced System: Interim, Formative and Summative

  13. A Balanced Assessment System

  14. Summative Assessment

  15. Summative Assessment Entering our 5th year of testing • More than 6 million students annually tested. Student scores are returned quickly • 90 percent of scores are returned within two weeks, and nearly 100 percent within three weeks. Computer adaptive • The computer-adaptive test adjusts the difficulty of questions based on the student’s response. If a student answers a question correctly, the next question will be harder; if a student answers incorrectly, the next question will be easier.

  16. Smarter Balanced & Higher Ed More than 250 colleges and universities in 10 states accept Smarter Balanced scores for placement into entry-level, credit-bearing courses, including Hawaii. The high school test isn’t just for students who plan to attend college. It also serves as an early detection tool by measuring readiness against real-world skills.

  17. Interim Assessments http://www.smarterbalanced.org/assessments/interim-assessments

  18. Check, Reflect, Connect Hawaiiteachers can use Interim Assessments and Digital Library throughout the year to: • Checkwhere students are in their learning. • Reflect on what results. • Connect interim assessment results with instructional resources in the Digital Library.

  19. Smarter Balanced in the Classroom Video: Val Verde Unified (CA) and Interim Assessments https://youtu.be/YdCS7A5C2vo

  20. Check: Interim Assessments • Check student progress throughout the year for grades 3-8 in English language arts/literacy and mathematics • Districts can use both the longer Interim Comprehensive Assessments (ICAs) and the shorter Interim Assessment Blocks (IABs): • One ICA grade per grade level and content area:Tests the same content as summative assessments and reports scores on the same scale. • 107 IABs total:Focuses on smaller sets of related concepts and provide more detailed information for instructional purposes.

  21. 46 Math Assessment Blocks

  22. 61 ELA/literacy Assessment Blocks

  23. Reflect: Using Interim Results With interim assessments, educators can: see their students’ data, including group and item level, as well as individual student responses, to reflect on what is working and what needs improvement. analyze how their students responded to the same items, allowing them to understand common misconceptions and to adjust instruction accordingly, as part of a formative strategy with Digital Library.

  24. Reflect Video: Hawaii Teacher Akemi Faria https://youtu.be/wJXPdj2uKVs

  25. Connect: Playlists & Digital Library https://www.sbdigitallibrary.org/

  26. Connect: Playlists & Digital Library https://www.sbdigitallibrary.org/ The Digital Library is a teacher-created, teacher-approved collection of more than 3,000 instructional resources. Hawaiieducators have contributed resources. Each resource is educator reviewed and approved by a team of 3 teachers before its posted in the Digital Library. Users can save resources for easy access. Users can also set up their profile to customize search.

  27. Connect: Playlists & Digital Library https://www.sbdigitallibrary.org/ Educators can connect with their colleagues to discuss and plan next steps for instruction and find resources in the Digital Library. Connections Playlists link student performance on the Interim Assessment Blocks to resources in the Digital Library. Educators can use these connections to find relevant and useful instructional supports that are aligned to students’ needs.

  28. Smarter Balanced in the Classroom Video: Centennial Middle School (WA) and Digital Library https://youtu.be/9zEtX1XopNA

  29. Stay Connected @SmarterBalanced SmarterBalanced SmarterBalanced www.SmarterBalanced.org SBDigitalLibrary.org

  30. Questions?

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