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California Assessment System

An Era of Change. California Assessment System. Centinela Valley Union High School District 2014. SBAC Planning Workshop. Agenda. Introduction to CAASPP Overview of Smarter Balanced Assessment System SBAC Field Test Overview Usability, Accessibility & Accommodations Practice Test

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California Assessment System

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  1. An Era of Change California Assessment System Centinela Valley Union High School District 2014

  2. SBAC Planning Workshop Agenda • Introduction to CAASPP • Overview of Smarter Balanced Assessment System • SBAC Field Test Overview • Usability, Accessibility & Accommodations • Practice Test • Resources • Questions/Collaboration/Planning

  3. CA Assessments Assembly Bill 484

  4. CA Assessments Purpose • STAR • To “serve as a basis for assessing the academic achievement of individual pupils, schools, districts and the California educational system as a whole” • CAASPP • To “serve as a basis for modeling and promoting high-quality teaching and learning activities across the entire curriculum and assessing the academic achievement of pupils, schools, districts and the California educational system”

  5. CA Assessments 2013-2014

  6. CA Assessments Other Assessments

  7. SBAC Intro

  8. SBAC Intro Smarter Balanced Assessments • Grades 3 – 8 and 11 • English Language Arts and Mathematics • Two Components • Computer Adaptive Test • Performance Task • Assessments are vertically aligned

  9. SBAC Intro Smarter Balanced Assessment System From www.ets.org

  10. SBAC Intro What are the benefits of Computer Adaptive Testing?

  11. SBAC Intro Smarter Balanced Assessments: Usability, Accessibility and Accomodations

  12. SBAC Intro Smarter Balanced: Timeline 2014 – 2015 And beyond 2012 - 2013 2013 - 2014

  13. SBAC Field Test Spring 2014 • SBAC Field Test

  14. SBAC Field Test Purpose • Test of Items • Valid • Reliable • Fair • Scaling • No student, school or district data will be produced • Will NOT be used for accountability purposes

  15. SBAC Field Test Student Participation • All Grade 11 students except: • CAPA • EL in US less than 12 months (ELA test only) • Benefits Include • Exposure & experience • Computerized Testing • New Item Types • Testing our • technology infrastructure • Testing policies and procedures

  16. SBAC Field Test Registration • CALPADS • Provides all student demographic data • Must be accurate and updated regularly! • District • Accessibility & Accommodation data

  17. SBAC Field Test Administration Logistics • Testing Windows • 4/7 – 5/16 • Hawthorne • Leuzinger • Lloyde • 4/28 – 6/6 • CVIS • Lawndale

  18. SBAC Field Test *Field Test will not be adaptive

  19. SBAC Field Test Technology Requirements • Compatible Device with Screen Size 10” or greater • Tablet • Laptop • Desktop • Headphones • External Keyboard • Pointing Device • Mouse • Touch Pad • Touch Screen

  20. SBAC Field Test Administration Logistics • Breaks • Up to 20 minutes • Students may go back to review and change answers on questions already answered during the testing session • Longer than 20 minutes • All questions answered will be saved, but students will not be able to go back and change answers.

  21. SBAC Field Test Technology Presentation • New Laptop Carts for Testing • Simultaneous Testing • Testing Locations: IT Recommendations • Tech Support during Testing

  22. SBAC Field Test Break

  23. SBAC Tools Usability, Accessibility & Accomodations

  24. SBAC Item Types Item Types • Selected Response • Select one or more responses from a set of options • Technology Enhanced • Drawing • Graphing • Drag & Drop • Text Selection and Editing • Constructed-Response • Type a numerical or text response • Performance Task…

  25. SBAC Item Types Performance Tasks • Application of knowledge and skills to respond to real-world problems. • Collections of questions and activities that are coherently connected to a single theme or scenario. • Measure depth of understanding, research skills, and complex analysis

  26. SBAC Practice Test Practice Test • Performance Tasks • Adaptive Items

  27. Assessments More Information… • California Department of Education Testing and Accountability Website • www.cde.ca.gov/ta • California Technical Assistance Center’s website • www.californiatac.org • Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium Website • www.smarterbalanced.org • CVUHSD’s Assessment and Accountability Web Page • www.centinela.k12.ca.us/assessments

  28. An Era of Change

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