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Comprehensive Guide to Item Review Committee: Structure and Expectations

This training module outlines crucial considerations for item review committees focused on mathematics. It emphasizes the logistics and organization of committee meetings, expectations for members, and the quality of items, tasks, and stimuli. Committee members must be familiar with the Common Core Standards and Smarter Balanced assessments, understand alignment with claims and targets, and ensure content accuracy and readability. The guide aims to foster collaboration and constructive feedback, ensuring high-quality assessments that are grade-appropriate and equitable for all students.

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Comprehensive Guide to Item Review Committee: Structure and Expectations

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  1. Mathematics Item Review Considerations Training Module

  2. Item Review Module • Logistics of the item review committee meeting • Structure and organization • Expectations of members • Content review considerations • Stimuli • Items and Tasks

  3. Item Review Committee • Quality of items, tasks, and stimuli • Committee composition: • Facilitator • Small group of members

  4. Expectation of Committee Members • Conduct the review based on the criteria discussed during training • Listen to, and collaborate with, other committee members • High expectations for quality • Provide honest and constructive feedback • Focus on issues of content • Be familiar with: • Common Core State Standards • Smarter Balanced Content Specifications • Smarter Balanced Item and Task Specifications

  5. Stimulus Review Considerations • Stimulus specifications • Claim consideration • Grade-level appropriate content • Accurate information • Editorial consideration

  6. Item Review Considerations • Alignment with primary Claim and Assessment Target • Alignment with Depth of Knowledge level • Compliance with: • Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium Content Specifications • Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium Item Specifications

  7. Reviewing Items for Content and Accuracy • Selected Response Items: • Is key accurate? • Are distractors inaccurate responses? • Are distractors plausible responses? • Constructed Response Items: • Is the scoring criteria accurate? • Do exemplars accurately reflect scoring criteria? • Stimuli and Stem: • Is all content accurate? • Is all content grade level appropriate?

  8. Item Review Content Considerations • Measure assessment target • Non-targeted knowledge and skills • Readability of stem and response options • Editorial consideration

  9. Reviewing a Sample Item

  10. Summary of Key Considerations • Accuracy • Readability and text complexity • Grade level appropriate content • Alignment with assessment target • Non-targeted knowledge and skills • Depth of knowledge • Editorial considerations

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