Multidisciplinary Performance Task Reminders, Updates, & More Samples

Review: Performance Task Students… Read Process Compose While some refer to the MDPT as a writing assessment, it is important to remember that this is actually a performance task, and students are engaging in a recursive process that may include reading or viewing, critical thinking/processing, and then composing notes or a final response. Both activities allow students the space to engage in all three of these throughout the task.

MDPT Window: February 16-March 10 Review: Window MDPT Window: February 16-March 10 The window was moved up, due to the need to have responses scored by teachers and ready in time to be combined with scores from the machine-scored part of the assessment.

Review: Structure MDPT Structure: Activity 1: Students read/view resources (approx. 25 mins) Activity 2: Students write response to prompt (approx. 25 mins) *All Kansas State Assessments are untimed. Students should be allowed as much time as they need to complete each assessment. Schools may choose whether to administer the two activities in a single block or in two different blocks, maybe even on different days. Time estimates are based on field test data from 2015.

2016 Multidisciplinary Performance Task Possible Writing Types Review: Prompts 2016 Multidisciplinary Performance Task Grade 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 (Field Test for ELA only) 11 Topic Variety Science HGSS Possible Writing Types OA IE N  N OA = Opinion or Argument IE = Informative or Explanatory N = Narrative

Review: Number of Prompts per Grade Field Test: Many prompts Operational Test: One prompt per grade What does this mean? Test security is paramount. Last year, many prompts were field tested at each grade so that CETE would have a bank of prompts and resources to use in subsequent testing years. Now that this assessment is operational for grades 3-8 and 11, one prompt per grade level has been selected, and all students in a given grade will receive the same resources and the same prompt each year.

Review: Scoring • Human-scored by Kansas teachers • Online training (approx. 2 hours) • Online scoring (approx. 3 mins per response) • Districts asked to score 1.5 times the number of MDPTs their students take • “Score your own” is not a thing. The scoring window will open closer to the closing of the MDPT assessment window. Information about scoring registration and training will be distributed as it becomes available.

Review: Teacher-created samples www.ksde.org/ela This is the address of the ELA portal. Here, you can find teacher-created MDPT samples that may be used with students, or used as models to create samples more aligned with your local curriculum. This is also the address where you can find newly-released field tested resources, prompts, and scored student responses.

Update: Samples! CETE has been able to provide samples of actual tasks that were field tested last year. Samples include: Resources provided to students Prompt(s) provided to students Scored responses with explanations of reasons for scores While we anticipate releasing more samples in future years, this year we are able to release resources, prompts and scored student responses for grades 6, 8 and 11. The 11th grade is for History, Government, Social Studies only. These can be found in the right column of the ELA portal: www.ksde.org/ela.