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Smarter Balanced

Smarter Balanced. Sample Items and Performance Tasks Scott Cook, Content Director. Oct. 10, 2012. Purpose of Sample Items and Performance Tasks. Demonstrate rigor and complexity of ELA/literacy and mathematics questions Showcase variety of item types: Selected response

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Smarter Balanced

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  1. Smarter Balanced Sample Items and Performance Tasks Scott Cook, Content Director Oct. 10, 2012

  2. Purpose of Sample Items and Performance Tasks • Demonstrate rigor and complexity of ELA/literacy and mathematics questions • Showcase variety of item types: • Selected response • Constructed response • Technology enhanced • Performance tasks • Help teachers to begin planning for the shifts in instruction • The sample items and performance tasks can be accessed from the Smarter Balanced website at http://www.smarterbalanced.org/sample-items-and-performance-tasks/.

  3. Developed with Educators and Experts • Early 2012: Assessment claims for ELA/literacy and mathematics approved by Governing States • April 2012: Item/task specifications and review guidelines published • http://www.smarterbalanced.org/itemspecs • June 2012: Training modules available for item writers/reviewers • http://www.smarterbalanced.org/smarter-balanced-assessments/item-writing-and-review • Summer 2012: Educators from Governing States begin writing items and tasks; cognitive labs / small scale trials begin • September 2012: Sample items reviewed by Smarter Balanced staff and advisors, Student Achievement Partners • October 2012: Sample items and tasks available • February / March 2013: Pilot Test of first 10,000 items and performance tasks

  4. “Students can demonstrate progress toward college and career readiness in English Language arts and literacy.” Claims for the ELA/Literacy Summative Assessment • “Students can demonstrate college and career readiness in English language arts and literacy.” Overall Claim for Grades 3-8 • “Students can read closely and analytically to comprehend a range of increasingly complex literary and informational texts.” Overall Claim for Grade 11 • “Students can produce effective and well-grounded writing for a range of purposes and audiences.” Claim #1 - Reading • “Students can employ effective speaking and listening skills for a range of purposes and audiences.” Claim #2 - Writing • “Students can engage in research and inquiry to investigate topics, and to analyze, integrate, and present information.” Claim #3 - Speaking and Listening Claim #4 - Research/Inquiry

  5. “Students can demonstrate progress toward college and career readiness in mathematics.” Claims for the Mathematics Summative Assessment • “Students can demonstrate college and career readiness in mathematics.” Overall Claim for Grades 3-8 • “Students can explain and apply mathematical concepts and interpret and carry out mathematical procedures with precision and fluency.” Overall Claim for Grade 11 • “Students can solve a range of complex well-posed problems in pure and applied mathematics, making productive use of knowledge and problem solving strategies.” Claim #1 - Concepts & Procedures • “Students can clearly and precisely construct viable arguments to support their own reasoning and to critique the reasoning of others.” Claim #2 - Problem Solving • “Students can analyze complex, real-world scenarios and can construct and use mathematical models to interpret and solve problems.” Claim #3 - Communicating Reasoning Claim #4 - Modeling and Data Analysis

  6. Exploring the Sample Items

  7. Sample Items and Tasks Landing Page to Launch Oct. 9

  8. Sample Items and Tasks Navigation View mathematics or ELA/literacy items Advance to next item, or go back to previous

  9. Sample Items and Tasks Navigation Content Claim Grade band

  10. Sample Items and Tasks Navigation Filter by item type, themes

  11. Item Metadata About this item

  12. Exploring the Sample Items Selected response and technology enhanced items are machine scorable

  13. Feedback and Support Starting Oct. 9 Online feedback and phone support available

  14. Accessibility and Accommodations • Sample items do not include accessibility and accommodations features • Full range of accessibility tools and accommodations options under development guided by: • Magda Chia, Ph.D., Director of Support for Under-Represented Students • Accessibility and Accommodations Work Group • Students with Disabilities Advisory Committee • Chair: Martha Thurlow (NCEO) • English Language Learners Advisory Committee • Accessibility & Accommodations Framework • Learn more online: • http://www.smarterbalanced.org/parents-students/support-for-under-represented-students/

  15. Questions

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