Robyn Seifert February 6, 2013

 smarterbalanced.org  K-12 EDUCATION  Administrators 2

 Summative assessment to be administered during the last 12 weeks of the school year  Optional interim assessments that can be used to check student progress throughout the year  Digital library of formative assessment practices and professional learning resources for teachers. 3

 Summative and optional interim assessments  Computer adaptive assessment that provides more accurate and efficient measures of student achievement and growth  Variety of assessment item types selected response, constructed response, technology enhanced items, and performance tasks 4

 Data will be available in a timely way through an online portal.  On-demand access to resources on assessment literacy through the digital library  Professional development and training for teams of educators from each state 5

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 Fall 2012: Teacher teams write Field Test items and tasks  Early 2013: Begin development of online professional learning materials on the assessment system, the Common Core, using reporting data and utilizing online resources  Spring 2013: Pilot test of summative and interim assessment items and performance tasks  Spring 2013: Pilot test scoring 7

 Spring 2014: Smarter Balanced conducts Field test of summative and interim assessment items and performance tasks  Summer/Fall 2014: Training materials available for all users on interpreting interim and summative assessment reports, searching resources, and using collaboration tools in the Digital Library  Fall 2014: Smarter Balanced assessments and digital library ready for use by states  Spring 2015: States administer summative assessment during last 12 weeks of the school year 8

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Building Awareness Mathematical Practices How do we teach? Content Standards What do we teach? Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium Did they learn?

15% 5% 80% Tier 3 Intensive Interventions (Times and frequency varies) Tier 2 Targeted Interventions (30 minutes, 2 – 5 days per week) Tier 1 Differentiated Core Instruction (60 minutes/day) Without additional Tier 2 support, some students may not be ready to learn.

 Claim 1: Concepts and Procedures (40%)  Recall and reproduction of facts and other types of information.  Claim 2: Problem Solving (20%)  Basic skills and concepts that require cognitive processes that extend beyond the recall of information.  Claim 3: Communicating Reasoning (20%)  Strategic thinking and reasoning.  Claim 4: Modeling and Data Analysis (20%)  Extended thinking that includes complex reasoning, planning, development, and cognition that occurs over an extended period of time.

Screen for Procedural Fluency  IES: Assisting Struggling Students  Recommendation #2  Introduction to the Math Shifts of the CCSS  Acheivethecore.org

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