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Annual Assessment and Accountability Meeting Updates

Get the latest updates from the Annual Assessment and Accountability Meeting, including new policies and important information on assessment administration, security training, and accommodations.

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Annual Assessment and Accountability Meeting Updates

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  1. Annual Assessment and Accountability Meeting Updates August 28, 2019 Susie Lee Bureau of K-12 Student Assessment

  2. Year in Review • Later assessment windows (April 1, May 1) • Grades 3–6 administered on paper • Preparing, storing, administering, tracking, packaging, and returning • Despite later deadline (6/30), shorter turnaround for reporting • Reported on 6/28 • Met calibration deadlines and return dates for all materials made it possible

  3. New Policies • Validity • Assessments are aligned to the content they are intended to measure • Reliability • Assessments consistently measure what they intend to measure • Standardization • Students take tests under the same conditions • Scores are comparable • Independent Test Taking • Student test taking is free of any outside influence

  4. New Policies • Last spring: • Removed references to make sure students were responding in the appropriate area • Removed references to ensuring students were working in the right session

  5. New Policies • Spring 2019 Test Monitoring • Peer Review: “The State adequately monitors the administration of its State assessments to ensure that standardized test administration procedures are implemented with fidelity across districts and schools.” • One main purpose and outcome of the Spring 2019 pilot was to refine policies to improve standardization based on observations.

  6. New Policies • Results of Spring 2019 Test Monitoring • Testing Strategies • No monitoring, incentivizing, or using checklists • Check Your Work • No instructing individual students to go back and check their work once they have finished • “Brain Dumping” • No instructing students to write down formulas, acronyms, or other strategies on test materials once they are distributed but before testing begins

  7. New Policies • Spring Security Training for Test Administrators • New instructions in the manuals, training materials, and on checklists and agreements • What is allowed? • Monitor for cheating, electronic devices, etc. • Re-read portions of the script during the break • Display portions of the script in the testing room

  8. Read Aloud Accommodations • FORM 1 • In some cases, it may be appropriate for a test administrator to read aloud to a small group of students who all have the same test form. • This should not be standard practice to administer this accommodation, nor should it be implemented due to scheduling or staffing needs, rather than the actual needs of students. • The administration of accommodations should align with how each student receives accommodations each day in classroom instruction.

  9. Read Aloud Accommodations • FORM 1 • Do not place orders for all students with read-aloud accommodations. • Review IEPs and 504 plans to ensure students require the accommodation. • Do not take Form 1 from a LP or Braille kit for use in a read-aloud room (those forms must stay with the LP or Braille materials they are packaged with).

  10. Important Things We Couldn’t Do Without You • Winter 2019–2020 ELA Writing Field Test • Opportunity for students • Provides us with data for high-quality item development • Shouldn’t need another FSA writing field test for several years • Calibration • Crucial to complete the statistical analyses in a timely fashion for scoring and reporting • Contributes towards Florida having valid and reliable assessments and results

  11. Important Things We Couldn’t Do Without You • Returning Materials from Schools • Allows more time for preparation • Helps meet PBT calibration requirements • Made meeting our deadlines possible this year • Was very successful in districts that returned from schools in Spring 2019

  12. Important Things We Couldn’t Do Without You • NAEP • Required by federal law • Selected students represent Florida’s education system and how we perform versus the nation • Helps improve policy and education decisions nationally • Now offers professional development hours for school and district assessment coordinators • NAEP administrators are our friends!

  13. Statewide Assessment Program Guide • Test Content • Development • Administration • Scoring and Equating • Reporting • Resources • History and Uses

  14. Uniform Assessment Calendars • Complete 2019–20, post on district website, and send link to the department by October 1, 2019. • 2019–20 and 2020–21 templates are available on the FDOE website: http://www.fldoe.org/accountability/assessments/k-12-student-assessment/assessment-schedules.stml • Contact Catherine Altmaier with any questions.

  15. Questions?

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