MARCH 9, 2016 Informal DTC Webinar Welcome! Thank you for joining us. We will begin shortly.

Quick Reminders/Information Smarter Balanced Performance Tasks expiration is 20 calendar days. Please remind TAs not to start a student’s PT just before spring break approaches. Seniors taking the Smarter Balanced Retests will not be administered the same Performance Tasks or CATs as their junior year.

Participation Opportunities Writing Scoring Guide Training:

Smarter Balanced: Claims vs. composite scores Composite Scores are not derived from the claim scores via a formula.  Composite scores are based on the responses to all items on a test  Claim scores are based on the responses to items that address the claim. Example from Sports: batting averages in baseball  Overall:.289  Runners in Scoring Position:.302  Runners on First Base:.279  No Runners on Base:.291  Note there is no “formula” that combines the three situational averages – it depend on how often the batter was in each situation.

ESSA Workgroups Next Steps Application Window Closed March 6 th 261 applications received*  Accountability: 107  Education Effectiveness: 127  School & District Improvement: 128  Standards & Assessment: 110 ODE is currently reviewing applications *Applicants could select multiple groups

ELPA21 Today, we are at the halfway point of the ELPA21 testing window Please remember to run the “start date” reports to know if there are students whose opportunity is going to expire during spring break (45 days = 3/24)  Expired tests are very rarely reopened, and apply to all individual domain tests (for students with domain exemptions) and the full test instances as well Contrasting Groups Study recruitment continues through March 25th

ELPA21 Item Security New test – on “new” standards – new test items  Exciting times – which seems to be increasing the “talk” about the test (with students and other staff)  Any/all discussions of test items must be very limited (see TAM), i.e. kept to generalities only  Any s about test items must be permanently deleted (shift+delete) & test impropriety filed Remember that the test items were extensively reviewed by content and sensitivity/bias panels prior to the field test, then field test data was reviewed

ELPA21 Fixed Form Blueprint Test Specifications & Blueprint documents are updated and posted, which includes the updated Oregon blueprint for this year’s test As mentioned previously, the test is different due to tasks and the fixed form, so is longer in number of items compared to the previous Oregon ELPA

Quick reminder re: ELPA21.org School districts should use Oregon documents and policies (TAM, OAM), rather than documents found on ELPA21.org Staff should contact the Regional ESD partners and/or Assessment staff regarding ELPA21, rather than contacting via blind to ELPA21.org Although Oregon is a member state of the ELPA21 consortium (and the lead state) we have policies and procedures in place that are continuing from previous years and will continue in the future

ELPA21 Screener Update The ELPA21 screener is part of the USDOE grant (“EAG”) from The grant ends on 9/30/16. A pilot of the screener is currently planned for May, The live screener is anticipated for August 1, 2016, through a separate vendor. Training and materials are not yet scheduled (via the consortium) at this point. ODE plans a multi-stage “phase in” of the ELPA21 screener, which will not begin in August; instead, our vendor (AIR) hopes to roll out the screener for Oregon later in the school year (date TBD).

ELPA21 Screener (cont.) Therefore, for , Oregon districts should continue to purchase the necessary materials for the commercial screener(s) that are currently used, in order to be prepared for our later rollout of the screener Also, in years forward, districts should plan to have commercial screener materials on hand (a number of booklets, etc.) to compensate for the periods when the vendor’s system must be offline for scheduled maintenance

Essential Skills ACT Update In September 2016 ACT discontinued reporting a Combined English/Writing and released a revised version of the Writing test. As a result, a new Writing Essential Skills achievement standard for ACT was needed. Because the Combined English/Writing score is no longer reported, the English and Writing scores must both be considered (previously these were incorporated in the combined score).

Essential Skills ACT Update The State Board approved the new Writing Essential Skills achievement standard for ACT as a table of score combinations. The achievement standards are included in Table 2.1 in the Essential Skills Assessment Options. You can also find a more detailed explanation of how to determine whether a student met the achievement standard in the Writing Essential Skill Achievement Standard on ACT Instructions.