KITE Updates October 11, 2017 Presented by: Susan Martin director ATS James Herynk project manager ATS Agenda Test Windows KITE Platform Whitelisting Practice Tests Resources Roles & Permissions Interim & Summative Updates Monitoring KIDS and KITE TASC & TEST Extracts Scoring Dashboard
Test Windows Kansas Test Windows Data Test Type Summative 3/13–4/27 Kansas Test Windows Data Test Type Summative 3/13–4/27 KIDS - TEST KELPA2 2/1–03/09 KIDS – TEST & TASC Interim Instructional 09/15-4/27 KIDS - TASC Interim Predictive fall 10/16–10/27 winter 12/4–12/15 spring 2/5–2/16 DLM ITI 9/20-2/28 EP Roster & FCS 3/13-4/27 CPASS 11/1-12/15
KITE Platform Content Builder Educator Portal (EP) Client (KITE or Student Portal) Local Caching Server (LCS)
Operating Systems, Devices, & Status
Whitelisting *.cete.us *.s3.amazonaws.com Interim Predictive window opens 10/16 Students need TASC records for Math and/or ELA Whitelist the following domains to prevent testing interruptions. *.cete.us *.s3.amazonaws.com
Practice Tests KAP Interactive Demos KELPA2 Interactive Demos ksassessments.org/interactive-demos (coming soon) KELPA2 Interactive Demos not available (coming soon, December) DLM Released Testlets dynamiclearningmaps.org > State > Kansas > Manuals and Blueprints > Guide to Practice Activities and Released Testlets cPass not available
Assessment Program Resources KAP ksassessments.org 855-277-9752, kap_support@ku.edu DLM dynamiclearningmaps.org 855-277-9751, DLM-support@ku.edu cPass careerpathways.us 855-277-9755, cPass@ku.edu KELPA2 ksassessments.org/k-elpa Same as KAP KSDE KIDS kidsweb.ksde.org 785-296-7935, kids@ksde.org KSDE Assessment Help Desk/Lee Jones 785-296-4349
EP: Roles and Permissions Consolidated roles/permissions Roles/permissions table on Help tab in Educator Portal Claim user: If the user is inactive, pull them into your district. If the user is active, an email is sent to the DTC in the other district asking to deactivate. 9/5/2017
Interim Updates Interim Predictive vs. Interim mini-tests Interim mini-test scheduling removed Tickets are back in view test session table Students auto assigned When added to roster for Teachers When added to grade for test sessions created to AutoAssign to Grade by Test Coordinator Interim User Guide Monitoring Teachers use the interim tab DTC and BTC can use Test Coordination or Interim Tab "Clear", "Next", "Back", "Save", and "Review/End"
Summative Updates In progress timed out reactivated automatically when student logs in, no longer have to be reactivated; the kids will simply need to use the next day’s DAC code to enter the test. Monitoring new condensed format. "Clear", "Next", "Back" and "Review/End"
Monitoring: Summative & Interim
KIDS and KITE TASC TEST Emails (Dashboard) General Information Students/Rosters Educators TEST Emails (Dashboard) EXIT
TASC: General Information KAP Interim Assessments (ELA and Math) Provides educator, course, and student link (i.e., “Rosters”) Required for Interim participation, NOT used for Summative Feed updates regularly throughout the day (within an hour)
TASC: Students/Rosters Adds assessment program to student Creates an active enrollment for an attendance school in your district if NO active enrollments exist Creates or adds a student to a roster by subject and building for a teacher Foundation for interim and predictive interim test assignment 9/5/2017
TASC: Educators Adds KAP program to user, if needed Creates an “inactive” teacher account if the educator ID is new to Educator Portal Creates an “inactive” teacher account if we receive an email address and an educator ID of all 9s Adds an educator ID to an existing Educator Portal user account if that account did not have an ID Creates rosters assigned to the teacher submitted on the most recently received TASC record
TEST: General Information KAP Summative (ELA, Math, Science, HGSS), cPass, and KELPA2 Used to assign students to the appropriate summative test Required for summative, NOT used for Interim participation Feed updates regularly throughout the day (within an hour)
TEST: Students/Rosters/Test Assignments Adds assessment program to student Creates an active enrollment for the student in the specified schools For KELPA2 , creates a roster used for scoring For KAP, creates rosters used for scoring HGSS
TEST: Educators KELPA2/HGSS Adds KELPA2/KAP program to user Adds teacher role to user If user is inactive or does not exist, does not create account but displays on dashboard (last year sent Email) No action taken for KAP (ELA & Math), DLM, or cPass educators
Data Extracts Review New Run at any time Listed in alphabetical order Names and descriptions updated DLM extracts for FCS and training management New KAP Test Administration Monitoring school entry date added and test part columns removed/consolidated Monitor Scoring now only 1 row per student per test (KELPA2 & HGSS) Test Readiness Extract, NEW 9/5/2017
Test Readiness Extract A new extract is being created that will allow State Administrators and Test Coordinators to pull for either district wide or by school test readiness details Assessment programs Username and Password Groupings PNP settings Modification dates
Scoring
Updates to Scoring: KELPA2 & HGSS Reduced need to scroll, better use of space, improved student response placement, visibility of media Improved manual scorer assignment process (no need to deselect) Harm to Self/Others (visibility page that identifies student items that have been flagged with this code for DTC to determine if actions are required.) Print writing responses Monitor Scoring Extract shows 1 row per domain (w and s) (no adding rows for scorer & only shows rostered teacher) New Monitor Scoring Screen that displays students item scores by row per scorer. This shows which scorer scored an item. User can download as CSV file, but also displays on screen
Score Tests 3
Dashboard
New Dashboard Sections New sections are shown Will be available for state, district and building level users
Testing Summary – Morning View Snapshot view – data updated twice daily M-F In morning, ”today” column will display “n/a” District users may view data for each school in district Downloads available – for district will include district counts and counts for all schools in district
Testing Summary – Afternoon View Updated information will be available mid-day Weekend testing (i.e., virtual schools) will be available mid-day Monday, reported in Monday’s data
Scoring Summary Works like testing summary Timeframes /updates Districts can see school level as well as district Downloads
Reactivations Can see student detail or summary view for all students in user’s organization One timeframe at a time State view will have a column for district
Testing Outside Expected Hours Student starts / finishes a test outside of expected hours Excludes students in schools with “virtual” in school 6AM – 5PM Mon-Fri.
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