State Board of Education January 13, 2016

 Grades 3-8  Provides flow-through funds to districts ◦ Provides partial reimbursement to districts for tests purchased from the list  Current Adoption List ◦ Blending Assessment with Instruction Program (BAIP-Math) ◦ STAR Reading and STAR Mathematics ◦ Measures of Academic Progress (MAP-Reading and Mathematics)

 Reviewing proposals to add assessments  Technical Review ◦ Fall 2015  Alignment Review ◦ Late January to early February 2016  Report results to SBE in spring 2016

 Every student entering publically funded prekindergarten and kindergarten  Administered by the forty-fifth day of the school year  Initially focused on early language and literacy development  Beginning in Fiscal Year , must assess ◦ early language and literacy development ◦ mathematical thinking ◦ physical well-being ◦ social-emotional development

 Prekindergarten-Administer one assessment from a list of up to three  Kindergarten- administer the Developmental Reading Assessment(r) 2nd Edition PLUS  Early literacy and language  Administered during the first forty-five days and the last forty-five days of the school year

 Pre-Kindergarten (4K) ◦ Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening (PALS) ◦ Individual Growth and Development Indicators (myIGDIs) ◦ Teaching Strategies GOLD®  Kindergarten (5K) ◦ Developmental Reading Assessment 2nd Edition PLUS (DRA2 PLUS)

 Science and Social Studies  Grades 4-8

 Contract awarded December 1, 2015  ELA and Mathematics  Grades 3-8  Spring 2016: Online and Paper/Pencil  Spring 2017: Online only

 Includes: ◦ TerraNova items to provide national comparison  Norm-referenced test items ◦ Items aligned to South Carolina Content Standards that were developed and field tested by contractor

 ELA ◦ Administered over two days ◦ Approximately 2 ½ hours per day  Mathematics ◦ Two sessions on one day  Session 1 -no calculator section  Session 2 - calculator section ◦ Approximately 2 hours

Subjects/SessionsItem TypeItem Type Description ELA & MathematicsSelected Response (SR) Students select their response from a list of possible answer options. ELA Evidence-Based Selected Response (EBSR) Students read a piece of text or passage and choose the best answer from the answer choices. Students will then be asked to support their response with evidence from the text—e.g. select multiple evidence statements, place multiple steps in correct sequence, place multiple punctuation marks correctly, etc. ELA Text-Dependent Analysis (TDA) Students read a piece of text or passage and draw upon that text for their extended written responses—e.g., support their responses with evidence from the text. Mathematics Short Answer (SA) or Gridded Response (GR) For online testers, students will key a numeric response (short answer). For paper/pencil testers, students will grid a numeric response (gridded response) on their answer document. MathematicsTechnology Enhanced (TE) Students interact with the item (online only) to provide their response—e.g., drag and drop, hot spot, graphing, etc.

Gr 3Gr 4Gr 5Gr 6Gr 7Gr 8 ELA84 96 Writing/Inquiry46 Reading Total38 50 Reading-Literary Text19 21 Reading-Informational Text19 29

Gr 3Gr 4Gr 5 Mathematics5056 Operations and Algebraic Thinking Number and Operations in Base Ten Number and Operations-Fractions Measurement and Data Geometry

Gr 6Gr 7 Ratios and Proportional Relationships8-10 The Number System Expressions and Equations Geometry Statistics and Probability Gr 8 The Number System9-11 Expressions and Equations12-16 Functions11-14 Geometry12-16 Statistics and Probability9-11

 End-of-Course Examination Program (EOCEP) ◦ English 1, Algebra 1, Biology 1, and US History and the Constitution ◦ Each student’s score included as 20% of their course grade

 ESEA Waiver amendment request ◦ Requested response by early December ◦ English 1 and Algebra 1 scores as high school accountability measure  If denied: ◦ English 2 and/or Geometry for accountability

 Administered for the first time in spring 2016  Scores would not be included as 20% of student’s course grade until reviewed and approved by the Education Oversight Committee  Administered to all students who were enrolled in the course during

 WorkKeys  Grade 11 Assessment of College Readiness ◦ Used the RFP process for procuring ◦ No responsive proposals were received ◦ SCDE is working with General Assembly to clear a path for procuring a test

 National Center and State Collaborative (NCSC) Assessments ◦ ELA and Mathematics ◦ Grades 3-8 and 11  South Carolina Alternate Assessment (SC-Alt) ◦ Science and Social Studies  Grades 4-8 ◦ Biology 1