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Getting Ready for the Fall 2005 MEAP Assessment

Getting Ready for the Fall 2005 MEAP Assessment. A Preview of What’s On the Way. Overview. No Child Left Behind (NCLB) requirements New assessment designs field testing in Winter 2005 operational Fall 2005. Operational Assessment. Move to Fall Assessment.

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Getting Ready for the Fall 2005 MEAP Assessment

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  1. Getting Ready for theFall 2005 MEAP Assessment A Preview of What’s On the Way Office of Educational Assessment and Accountability

  2. Overview • No Child Left Behind (NCLB) requirements • New assessment designs • field testing in Winter 2005 • operational Fall 2005 Office of Educational Assessment and Accountability

  3. Operational Assessment Move to Fall Assessment • Return to fall assessment in 2005-06 • Consequently, teachers will receive results in time to use them for planning instruction Office of Educational Assessment and Accountability

  4. Operational Assessment Move to Fall Assessment • Operational assessment for elementary and middle school in all subjects for the 2005-06 school year is scheduled for October 3 – 21, 2005. • HS Fall 2005 Retest Dates will be October 24 – November 4. Office of Educational Assessment and Accountability

  5. Operational Assessment NCLB Testing Requirements • Every student must be assessed in mathematics and English language arts every year. • Results in mathematics will be reported by Grade Level Content Expectation (GLCE). • ELA may include limited GLCE reporting • Science & social studies may do so in future Office of Educational Assessment and Accountability

  6. Operational Assessment Changes in Grades 3 through 8 • Greatest impact in grades 3 through 8 • More students will be assessed • Longer assessments Office of Educational Assessment and Accountability

  7. Operational Assessment Test Lengths by Grade Office of Educational Assessment and Accountability

  8. Field Testing Field Testing will Increase • In the past, MEAP has used field testing in a limited number of schools • Current plan is to release all items relating to the core GLCEs each year • Therefore, field testing will be expanded Office of Educational Assessment and Accountability

  9. Field Testing Winter 2005 • A significant number of schools will participate in field testing new items in grades 3 through 8 during the Winter 2005 operational assessment cycle. Office of Educational Assessment and Accountability

  10. Field Testing Sample Selection • School coordinators were notified about sample selection on October 15. • Sample must adequately represent the students in the State. • Schools selected as part of the sample are required to participate in the field testing. Office of Educational Assessment and Accountability

  11. Field Testing Testing in Grades 4, 5, 7 & 8 • In the traditional MEAP grades, assessments will include both operational and field test items. • Field test items will be scored, but will not be used to determine student performance levels or for reporting. • Field test items will be placed within the assessments and will look just like the other items. Office of Educational Assessment and Accountability

  12. Field Testing Winter 2005 Testing Cycle • Base MEAP assessments with embedded field test items will be administered at the same grade levels as they have been in recent years: • Grade 4 – English language arts (ELA) and mathematics • Grade 5 – Science and social studies • Grade 7 – English language arts • Grade 8 – Mathematics, science and social studies Office of Educational Assessment and Accountability

  13. Field Testing Winter 2005 Stand-alone Field Tests • Stand-alone field tests • Will consist only of field test items • Will not be used for scoring or reporting purposes • Schools will be randomly selected to participate Office of Educational Assessment and Accountability

  14. Field Testing Field Tests in Grades 3, 5, 6, 7 & 8 • Stand-alone field tests will be conducted in the following grades and subject areas: • Grade 3 – English language arts and mathematics • Grade 5 – English language arts and mathematics • Grade 6 – English language arts and mathematics • Grade 7 – Mathematics • Grade 8 – English language arts Office of Educational Assessment and Accountability

  15. Field Testing Embedded Field Tests (Future) • Beginning in Fall 2005, we plan to embed field test items in each MEAP assessment booklet for all subjects, in order to determine which items are the best to use for creating future operational assessments. Office of Educational Assessment and Accountability

  16. Field Testing Embedded Field Tests in Math & ELA • For math, each student will take 8 to 10 field test items in addition to the items that will count in their assessment scores. • For ELA , in addition to the items that will be reported as part of their scores, each student will be asked to (a) respond to 10 multiple choice items related to an extra reading passage, or else (b) write an essay based on a prompt. Office of Educational Assessment and Accountability

  17. Field Testing Matrix Sampling Office of Educational Assessment and Accountability

  18. ELA Assessment The new ELA reading assessment • Narrative and informational passages with comprehension questions (14 items each) • One pair of Cross-Text passages (Informational and/or Narrative) including • within-text comprehension questions (7 items each) • cross-text questions (5 items) • Response to Reading constructed-response question. (6 points) • Word Study and Recognition: Multiple-choice vocabulary meaning questions. (5 items) • Replacement items: New passages and items for one component or part of a component of the reading or writing assessment. (10 items or points) Office of Educational Assessment and Accountability

  19. ELA Assessment ELA reading * Not reported Office of Educational Assessment and Accountability

  20. ELA Assessment Reading test word limits Office of Educational Assessment and Accountability

  21. ELA Assessment The new ELA writing assessment • Extended writing prompt (12 points) • Shorter writing prompt (8 points) • Multiple-choice revising and editing of student writing (10 items) Office of Educational Assessment and Accountability

  22. ELA Assessment Revising and editing • Word usage • Reorganization • Additions & deletions • Combining sentences • Appropriate use of transitions • Topic sentence • Identifying organizational patterns • Author's intent (audience & purpose for writing) • Genre • Style Office of Educational Assessment and Accountability

  23. ELA Assessment ELA writing * Not reported Office of Educational Assessment and Accountability

  24. ELA Assessment ELA content expectations In English Language Arts, there are grade-appropriate content expectations at all grade levels in each of the following strands: • Reading • Writing • Speaking • Listening & Viewing Office of Educational Assessment and Accountability

  25. ELA Assessment Grade 4 Reading GLCEs • Word Study: Use structural, semantic, and syntactic cues to automatically read frequently encountered words, decode unknown words, and decide meaning, including multiple meaning words (e.g., letter/ sound, rimes, base words, affixes, syllabication) Office of Educational Assessment and Accountability

  26. ELA Assessment Grade 4 Reading GLCEs (continued) • Narrative: Analyze characters’ thoughts and motivation through dialogue; various character roles and functions (e.g., hero, villain, narrator); know first person point of view and conflict/resolution Office of Educational Assessment and Accountability

  27. ELA Assessment Grade 4 Reading GLCEs (continued) • Informational: Identify and explain the defining characteristics of informational genre (e.g., autobiography/ biography, personal essay, almanac, newspaper) Office of Educational Assessment and Accountability

  28. ELA Assessment Grade 4 Reading GLCEs (continued) • Comprehension: Retell and summarize grade level appropriate narrative and informational text Office of Educational Assessment and Accountability

  29. ELA Assessment Grade 4 Writing GLCEs • Write a comparative piece to demonstrate understanding of central ideas and supporting ideas using an effective organizational pattern Office of Educational Assessment and Accountability

  30. Mathematics Assessment Mathematics assessment • Core: Three-item measures for up to 24 Core GLCEs (55 to 72 items) • Extended Core: Items for up to two additional GLCEs (0 to 2 items) • Future Core: Items for up to two additional GLCEs that are expected to become part of the Core assessment in five years (0 to 4 items) Office of Educational Assessment and Accountability

  31. Mathematics Assessment Mathematics (continued) • Replacement Items: Items to replace released items from 1-3 above in future years (8 to 10 items) • Linking Items: A small group of items from the previous and next grade levels used to place the tests on a common scale – for measuring “growth” from one grade to another (3-6 items) Office of Educational Assessment and Accountability

  32. Mathematics Assessment Math items per grade * Not reported at the student level ** Not reported at any level Office of Educational Assessment and Accountability

  33. Mathematics Assessment Math test lengths * Not reported at the student level ** Not reported at any level Office of Educational Assessment and Accountability

  34. Mathematics Assessment Content expectations in math At all grade levels, there are grade-appropriate content expectations in each of the following strands • Number and operations • Algebra • Measurement • Geometry • Data and probability Office of Educational Assessment and Accountability

  35. Mathematics Assessment Some future math GLCEs • Grade 2: Understand multiplication as the result of counting the total number of objects in a set of equal groups, e.g., 3 x 5 gives the number of objects in 3 groups of 5 objects, i.e., • 3 x 5 = 5 + 5 + 5 = 15. Office of Educational Assessment and Accountability

  36. Mathematics Assessment Some future math GLCEs (continued) • Grade 3: Estimate the perimeter of a square and rectangle in inches and centimeters; estimate the area of a square and rectangle in square inches and square centimeters. Office of Educational Assessment and Accountability

  37. Mathematics Assessment Some future math GLCEs (continued) • Grade 4: Find unknown angles using the properties of: triangles, including right, isosceles, and equilateral triangles; parallelograms, including rectangles and rhombuses, and trapezoids. Office of Educational Assessment and Accountability

  38. Mathematics Assessment Some future math GLCEs (continued) • Grade 6: Solve equations of the form ax + b = c, e.g., 3x + 8 = 15, by hand for positive integer coefficients less than 20, using calculators otherwise, and interpret the results. Office of Educational Assessment and Accountability

  39. Mathematics Assessment Some future math GLCEs (continued) • Grade 7: Recognize inversely proportional relationships in contextual situations; know that quantities are inversely proportional if their product is constant; e.g., the length and width of a rectangle with fixed area and that an inversely proportional relationship is of the form y = k/x where k is some non-zero number. Office of Educational Assessment and Accountability

  40. Science Assessment (yet to be approved) • Science benchmarks and standards are under review this year, with May 2005 as the earliest that assessment development can begin. • Current Science assessments would be given in the Fall 2005 at grades 5 and 8. • Schools will not have the first semester to cover content included in the assessment; this could have local instructional implications. • New assessments could be pilot-tested in Winter 2006 and implemented in Fall 2006. Office of Educational Assessment and Accountability

  41. Science Assessment Science benchmarks • Constructing new scientific knowledge • Reflecting on scientific knowledge • Using life science knowledge • Using physical science knowledge • Using earth science knowledge Office of Educational Assessment and Accountability

  42. Social Studies Assessment (yet to be approved) • The State Superintendent’s Social Studies Task Force will be making several recommendations soon. • Under consideration: A proposal to create grade-level expectations and reduce the breadth of the MEAP assessments. • If completed by Fall 2004, new MEAP assessment items could be field tested in Fall 2005 and the new assessments could be implemented in Fall 2006. Office of Educational Assessment and Accountability

  43. Social Studies Assessment Move to grades 6 & 9 • Existing MEAP assessments, now given in the winter of grades 5 and 8, may be shifted to the fall of grades 6 and 9 in 2005. Office of Educational Assessment and Accountability

  44. Social Studies Assessment Social studies content strands • Historical perspective • Geographic perspective • Civic perspective • Economic perspective • Inquiry • Public discourse and decision making • Citizen involvement Office of Educational Assessment and Accountability

  45. Item Development Teacher involvement • MEAP plans to return to the previous practice of involving Michigan teachers in developing the items for field tests beginning in Fall 2005. Office of Educational Assessment and Accountability

  46. Item Development Benefits • Will ensure that our assessments have high quality • Will also give Michigan educators a valuable professional development opportunity to increase their familiarity with the GLCEs and thereby enhance their knowledge of Michigan’s standards. Office of Educational Assessment and Accountability

  47. References • For further information about content standards, go to http://www.mi.gov/mde and select “K-12 Curriculum.” Copies of the math and ELA GLCEs are available for download at www.michigan.gov or at www.learnport.org/news.cfm • To compare GLCEs with benchmarks, go to http://www.michigan.gov/mde/0,1607,7-140--87065--,00.html • To participate in reviewing State-assessed GLCEs for math and/or ELA, go to the MEAP website and look under “What’s New?”, or else go tohttp://www.mi.gov/mde/0,1607,7-140-22709_31168-101707--,00.html Office of Educational Assessment and Accountability

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