### Fall 2014 OSPI Meeting Report: Assessment Changes and Smarter Balanced Updates ###

1. AWMLP Fall Meeting OSPI Report – October 20th - Mike Hubert

2. Topics • Assessment • Revised Achievement Index / Student Growth Percentiles

3. Assessment

4. Current Resources for Test Proctors

5. Evolution to Smarter Balanced Summative Assessments in Washington

6. Summative Assessments in 2014–15 and Beyond

7. Major Milestones in Development of Summative Assessments ✔ ✔ ✔ Full system run-through; Establish performance standards; some results Early Q.C. of items & software; no student results

8. Smarter Balanced Field Testing • March - June 2014 • Purpose: Evaluate items and tasks for Smarter Balanced pool… • Statistical data analysis of 22,000+ items • Divide items/tasks into secure (summative) pool and open (interim) pool • Conduct standard setting for different performance levels (“cut scores”) • Sampling of about 10% of each state’s students for ELA and about 10% for math • States & Smarter Balanced developing ways to avoid double testing

9. Technology Requirements: Responding to School Needs • Smarter Balanced has established standards for new and existing hardware • Online “Readiness Tool” • Schools and districts can evaluate technology readiness • Schools do NOT need one-to-one computers • Illustrative example: A 600-student school can be supported by a single 30-computer lab • Smarter Balanced Readiness Calculator at: http://www3.cde.ca.gov/sbactechcalc/ • Pencil-and-paper option available for three-year transition period

10. Smarter Balanced Field Testing Blended model is what Washington plans to use (in grades 3-8). In September, elementary and middle schools will choose to: A. Administer current test only B. Administer field test only

11. Smarter Balanced Field Testing • Administering field test only (grades 3-8): • Operations • Field test will be online • All grades at a school must field test, both ELA & Math • Testing window TBD (hopefully schools will have choice of two weeks within last 12 weeks, but may be an assigned 4 week window) • Minimal info will be available for individual score reports • No direct costs to schools for field test • More information coming from Smarter Balanced in the next month

12. Smarter Balanced Field Testing • Administering field test only (grades 3-8): • School accountability • Percent meeting standard is carried over from state assessments in 2012-2013 • Priority, Focus, and Emerging lists to be generated in same way, but 2014 proficiency score will be duplicative of 2013 • New accountability index will be compromised because we won’t have new Student Growth Percentiles for 2013-14 (could just use same SGP for 2013 and 2014)

13. Testing Times for Summative Assessment The testing window is the final 12 weeks of the academic year for grades 3-8; maybe be a designated 4-6 week window for HS.

14. Interim Assessments and Formative Tools (Digital Library) • Interim Assessments – Ready in Fall 2014 • Available to all districts – costs covered by state • Optional use and frequency • Two types of assessments can be constructed: • Clone summative test • Target specific skills • 2014-15 will have fewer items to draw from than later years • Digital Library - Resources to be available in late Spring 2014

15. Digital Library Features One Stop: • The Digital Library will have links to all test engine systems through a single sign-on with user permission levels so teachers, parents, and students have access to all of the curriculum and professional learning resources. • Assessment literacy • Formative assessment resources • Links to other resources and other components of the Smarter online system • Includes resources for each grade band that address English Language Learners and Students With Disabilities Interactive Teacher Space • Opportunities to keep journals of practices • Key words or phrases in the journals will generate suggested lists of resources. • Record resources consulted and suggest others. • Teachers can request resources matched to student assessment results.

16. Accommodations – 2013-14 for current state tests • New “Access Supports and Accommodations Guidelines for State Assessments” coming soon • Current framework includes: • Who • Accommodations for students with disabilities • Accommodations for English language learners • Access Supports (formerly Universal Accommodations) • What • Presentation • Response • Setting • Timing and Scheduling

17. Current Resources for Communities and Families • NEW! The Common Core State Standards: An Introduction for Families and Other Stakeholders (from the Aspen Institute) http://www.aspeninstitute.org/publications/common-core-state-standards-introduction-families-other-stakeholders • Flyers in Spanish and English for download • OSPI’s CCSS Web Site: http://www.k12.wa.us/CoreStandards/Families/default.aspx • Links to: • National PTA Parent Guides • Parent Roadmaps to the CCSS – from the Council for Great City Schools

18. Resources for District/Building Transitions • “System” Readiness and Action Guides • OSPI’s District Professional Learning System Readiness Assessment: Implementing the CCSS (http://www.k12.wa.us/CoreStandards/pubdocs/CCSSReadiness5-23-12.pdf) • Achieve’s Implementing the CCSS Action Briefs (http://www.achieve.org/publications) • The Role of the Elementary / Secondary School Leaders / Counselors • Considering Instructional Materials • OSPI Instructional Materials Web Sitehttp://www.k12.wa.us/CurriculumInstruct/InstructionalMaterialsReview.aspx • CCSS Publisher’s Criteria – ELA and Math (http://engageny.org/resource/publishers-criteria-for-elaliteracy-and-math/) • EQuipReview Rubrics and Process (http://engageny.org/resource/tri-state-quality-review-rubric-and-rating-process/)

19. The Revised Achievement Index

21. ESSB 5491 Indicators and Performance Goals

23. Student Growth Percentiles http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e_j9QwjVWk&feature=player_embedded

24. So What Does It Look Like?

25. What is an Academic Peer? • The Washington Growth Model measures student growth by taking • account of where a student starts and uses WCAP results for all • Washington students in a given content area and grade to quantify each • student's annual progress. The resulting metric is called a student • growth percentile. Similar to height and weight percentiles used to • describe the relative height and weight of an infant as compared to other • infants of the same sex and age, a student growth percentile describes • the relative academic growth a student made compared to other students • with the same achievement history|their academic peers. Academic • peers are not an actual set of students but are constructed using all the • state's data.

26. SGPs Disaggregated

27. Revised Index Tier Labels

28. Reports to Districts http://www.k12.wa.us/assessment/SGP/Educators.aspx

29. School Growth Summary Stonebridge Elementary

31. Stonebridge Elementary School High Achievement, High Growth