Working with Blueprint Assessment Data

1. Working with Blueprint Assessment Data Lake Elsinore Unified School District Instructional Support Services Doug Wells, Administrator: Assessment & Accountability Riverside County Assessment Network March 4, 2010

2. String Data – Early March (typical)

3. String Data – Early March (positive)

5. Lake Elsinore Benchmark Assessment Schedule

6. How LEUSD uses the Blueprint Assessments • All original instruction is complete before spring break (March 26) • Blueprint Assessments can be given in lieu of the Yellow Benchmark Assessments • Grade Level/Subject teams must agree to which assessment to use • Blueprint Assessments are administered the week before spring break (March 21-25) • Some teams ask to give the assessments March 14-18) • No testing of any kind is allowed after spring break, until STAR • Data is scored and reports provided during the spring break • Data is available in EADMS and reports provided via e-mail

8. Blueprint Assessments vs. Yellow Benchmarks

9. STAR Camp – Using Blueprint Assessment Data • Teachers meet during spring break or on the Monday they return to plan STAR Camp • Some sites request to test early so they can plan during the week before break • Three weeks between spring break and STAR testing • Match the specific students’ weaknesses with the teachers with the best strengths for those weaknesses. • Teams focus on 1 or 2 standards at a time, 2 – 3 days • Students are re-shuffled, based on Blueprint Assessment data for the new focus standards • Focus standards are most heavily weighted, lowest performing standards • Teachers also consider standards that can be reviewed in a shorter period of time • Language Conventions, Writing Strategies, Number Sense, Algebra & Functions

10. Blueprint Assessment Planning and Logistics • Start early • Message is sent out during the Pink Benchmarks and teams have a week to let their principals know what they choose • Some principals are contacted to work with specific teams • Copies take a good amount of time to make • LEUSD utilizes Form B of the Blueprint Assessments • More difficult of the two assessment versions • Most teams utilize Form A for review after the break • All teams who give the Yellow Benchmarks utilize both Form A and B as instructional tools for review

11. High Schools & Blueprint Assessments • All Grade 9 students take the CAHSEE Blueprint Assessments for ELA and Math while the Grade 10 students take CAHSEE in March • High Schools administer the regular Yellow Benchmark Assessments March 21-25 • Results are published district-wide in a competitive manner • Same reporting as the CAHSEE results – considered the “J.V Game” for the CAHSEE results • Results of CAHSEE Blueprint are reported to current teachers for CST review • Results are used in student placement for Grade 10 • Teachers with specific strengths are matched with students with specific weaknesses • Classes focus is in those areas to meet student needs • Student strengths and weaknesses are matched within a class period • Students can more easily move from one class to another without disrupting their schedule • Students can move to a class focusing on their areas of specific weakness

12. Questions? Doug Wells Administrator: Assessment & Accountability Lake Elsinore Unified School District (951) 253-7118 doug.wells@leusd.k12.ca.us