1. Overview of Common Assessment October 15, 2016 Marina Aminy, Ph.D.

2. What have you heard? “I’ve heard CAI is being scrapped.”
“Faculty at my college want to keep working on competency mapping.”
“Will CCCAssess ever be released?”
“We’re looking forward to adoption, whenever that is. When will it be?”
“We don’t want to lose momentum.”
“We’re Compass users and need a plan.”

3. So, what’s up with CAI?
Additional data needed for validation and approval
Full suite of functionality needed for system-wide rollout
Extension of timeline to do this work
Continuing to work with stakeholders to meet the needs of the system and its students, faculty, staff

4. What else can you tell us?
Significant efforts by stakeholders are not lost
Local implementation team work
Competency mapping by faculty
IT integration work on project glue, IdP proxy, Shibboleth upgrades
Assessment center analysis, feedback
MMAP adoption
We continue forward progress

5. Work with CCCCO and other Partners
Working together on a plan
Webinar – recording now available
CCCAssess.org website updates
Newsletter articles
Professional Development events
ASCCC
Saddleback
Memos from Vice Chancellors

6. Options for Compass users
Memo from CCCCO on Assessment Options 10/4

7. Overarching Goals

8. Creation and Refinement of:
A test that covers curricular areas of
Math, English, ESL
With writing samples
Adaptive at the Testlet level
Multiple Measures/MMAP integration
Assessment Preparation toolkits
Accessibility as a primary consideration
Professional development component

9. Common Assessment, Not Common Placement
Placement is locally determined
113+ different placement models possible
Raw data is portable
No traditional cut scores
Map of Student Competencies
Local validation steps needed

10. What type of work has been done to date?

11. 2014: Establish a Foundation
Launch website – January 2014
Establish Governance – March 2014
Steering Committee with stakeholder representation
Environmental scan – May 2014
Pilot College Application, Selection – May 2014
Request For Information (RFI) – June 2014
Work Groups begin meeting – June 2014
Draft competency maps
Request for Proposals (RFP) – December 2014

12. Pilot Colleges Bakersfield Fresno City Butte Rio Hondo Chaffey
Sacramento City
DeAnza
Saddleback
Delta
Santa Monica
Diablo Valley
West Los Angeles

13. Work Groups Math (includes above college-ready)
English (includes Reading)
ESL (includes Noncredit)
Multiple Measures
Professional Development
Test Development Process
Platform & Reports

14. 2015: Build A System RFP Process Unicon, Inc.
50+ stakeholders decide to build vs buy
Unicon, Inc.
Software development
Platform/Administration
Link-Systems International, Inc. (LSI)
Content development
WorldWideTestBank
English, ESL, Math

15. 2016: Pilot Phase, Outreach Spring 2016 Summer 2016
Pilot testing for platform
Test item data gathering
12 pilot colleges
10,000+ assessments taken
Summer 2016
Ambassador training
Initial validation data analysis, summary

16. 2016: What’s next? Fall 2016 Additional Pilot data collection
Field Testing
Bias Panels
Accessibility Testing
Compass user group established
RFPs to be released, vendors selected
Writing sample
Assessment preparation
Back-up test bank

17. 2017 & 2018 Phased implementation across the system Ongoing Success!
Professional Development
Feedback and continuous improvement
Not a static solution
Success!

18. Now what? Watch for updates
Memos, newsletter articles, AssessPress
Additional website postings
FAQs:
Let us know what’s going on at your college – adoption planning
Keep moving forward with faculty mapping, IT work
Join a work group, bias review panel
Attend or request a regional PD event

19. Previous Meetings Total Attendees over 9 meetings = 870
105 of the 113 colleges have attended

20. How do we get started? We know what is coming.
What does that entail locally?

22. Lead the Charge Become the expert Look ahead
Think in terms of Student Success

24. Questions? Thank you www.CCCAssess.org
Marina Aminy:
Jennifer Coleman, Statewide Director ~