1. Kansas College and Career Ready Academic Assessment OR Kansas Assessment Program (KAP) Results

2. Performance on Old vs. New Old State Assessment 2002-2013 Exemplary Exceeds Meets Approaching Warning New State Assessment 2014-2015 4 3 2 1

4. Performance Level Definitions Level 1: Indicates that a student is not performing at grade-level standards, and additional supports are needed. Level 2: Indicates that the student is doing grade- level work as defined by the standards but not at the depth or level of rigor to be considered on-track for college readiness. Level 3: Indicates that the student is performing at academic expectations for that grade level and is on track to being college ready. Level 4: Indicates that the student is performing above expectations for that grade level and is on track to being college ready.

5. College and Career Ready means an individual has the  academic preparation,  cognitive preparation,  technical skills, and  employability skills to be successful in postsecondary education, in the attainment of an industry recognized certification or in the workforce, without the need for remediation. College and Career Ready 5

6. New Vocabulary: Scaled Scores 220 is THE lowest any student can score and a 380 is THE highest any student can score

8. New Vocabulary: Scaled Scores 220 is THE lowest any student can score and a 380 is THE highest any student can score

10. Some thoughts to consider Student performance has not declined! It is an expected outcome that when the bar is raised, there will be a lower percentage of students reaching that higher standard, initially. As with any change, there is a period of adjustment as teachers and students get used to the new standards and tests. Assessment scores from this last year will serve as baseline for future years and cannot be compared to any previous years scores. Level 2 is not failing. A student performing at Level 2 is doing good, basic work required of that grade level, but not doing the work at the depth and rigor to be on track for college and career readiness.

11. Individual Student Results and Reports

12. -Performance Level Bands will be changed before final versions are populated -Median (Middle) Score is KEY with these results -SE is Standard Error: Expected performance range if student repeated the assessment

13. Some thoughts to consider Your student’s score is provided as a scaled score, which does not indicate how many answers were correct. Instead, it shares at what level your student is performing (Level 1, 2, 3, or 4) relative to grade-level peers in the same content area (ELA or Math). The Kansas Assessment Program results utilize the median score as a point of reference. The median scores listed for School, District, and State are helpful in comparing your student’s individual results to the middle score (median) of his or her grade- level group. For example, if your student’s individual score is higher than the median for any of those comparison groups, then that means his or her performance on that assessment was higher than at least half of the students in that group. These reports provide you with information about your student’s strengths using the term Claims. Claims are groups of Targets, and Targets are groups of specific skills that are aligned to Kansas College and Career Ready Standards in each content area.

14. -Strengths and Supports are aligned to Claims -Standard Error (SE) range is shown -Notice Claim 1 is alone and blue: There were enough items for that Claim to separate it from the others which may be represented as a strength -2, 3, and 4 are grouped given fewer total questions

15. Claims, Targets, and Evidence Content Emphases Performance-level Descriptors (PLDs) Item Specifications http://www.ksassessments.org Go to ELA Overview Go to Math Overview

16. Building (School) Results and Instructional Reports

21. District Results and Reports

24. Look into 2016

25. ASSESSMENTS - 2016 English Language Arts and Mathematics ▫Grades 3 – 8 & 10 ▫Will be adaptive ▫Will have a listening part - headphones Science ▫FIELD TEST – no scores will be released ▫Grades 5, 8 & 11 History/Government/Social Studies ▫Delayed Results ▫Standard setting – summer 2016 ▫Grades 6, 8, &11 ▫Alternate History/Government/Social Studies

26. ASSESSMENTS - 2016 TESTING WINDOW ▫Performance task  February 16 – March 10 ▫Machine scored  March 16 – May 12

27. Stage Adaptivity: Spring of 2016 Stages 1, 2, 3, and 4 ▫Stage 1 – 25 fixed questions from mostly PLD 3 by grade level in ELA and Math ▫Stage 2 – Performance on Stage 1 determines Stage 2  15 questions  Stay with mostly PLD 3 questions  Move up to mostly PLD 4 questions  Move down to mostly PLD 2 questions ▫Stage 3 – Stage 1 and Stage 2 (Aggregate) determines Stage 3  15 questions  Mostly stay  Mostly up  Mostly down ▫Random Field Test Block  A fourth stage, but not necessarily Stage 4.

28. Stage Adaptivity Continued Stage 4 – PLD 4 Questions can go above grade level but are tied to a specific grade-level skill. By law, questions will not go below grade level despite performance “Salsa Analogy” – PLD 2, 3, or 4 ▫2 - Mild ▫3 - Medium ▫4 – Hot Random Field Test Block ▫Will occur for each student in Stage 2, 3, or 4 ▫No one will know ▫Does not factor into score ▫Does not impact adaptivity

29. Spring 16 KAP: Early & Noteworthy REMEMBER: Percent Correct is GONE! ELA Cut Score Scale WILL NOT change when listening is included in Spring of 2016 ▫“Scaled In” MDPT will also be “Scaled In” to ELA Tickets…Get Your Tickets! ▫Big Improvements are Anticipated  One Ticket!

30. How do I find out more information! www.usd365.org on the Curriculum Pages www.usd365.org Stacey Hedges, Curriculum Director District Office 785-448-6155 shedges@usd365.org