1. Overview of 2015-2016 Assessments
Interim Assessments
Overview of Assessments
Training Module

2. Smarter Balanced Interim Assessments
Designed to support teaching and learning throughout the year.
Interim Assessments provide feedback to inform instruction including:
Global measures of early and midyear progress
Identify specific areas of strength and weakness
Assess skills of incoming students

3. Similarities to summative items:
Interim Items
Similarities to summative items:
all items were developed together
assess Common Core State Standards
use Universal Design principles
same accessibility resources
provide evidence to support claims in mathematics and English language arts/literacy
Differences from summative items:
separate open, non-secure pool

4. Interim Comprehensive Assessments (ICAs)
Two types of tests
Interim Comprehensive Assessments (ICAs)
Same design as summative tests
Assess the same claims and standards
Yield overall scale scores, performance level designation and claim score information
Interim Assessment Blocks (IABs)
Assess smaller sets of targets
Address specific content areas
More flexible
Reported as “Below Standard, “At/Near Standard,” and “Above Standard”

5. Administration of Interim Assessments
Administered online through the Test Delivery System (TDS)
Individual Accommodations and Supportive features may be selected in TIDE
Uses same delivery software and secure browser as summative and other state assessments
Uses same scripts as the summative assessments
Reports will be rendered in the Online Reporting System (ORS) after tests are submitted and hand scoring has occurred (where applicable)

6. Scoring of Items and Tests
Scoring of non-machine scored items is a school responsibility
ICAs and some IABs have items that are not machine-scored and must be scored by a Test Administrator, Teacher or school specified individual
For more information about hand scoring, refer to the Teacher Hand Scoring System User Guide

7. Scoring of Tests
Same scoring rules as summative tests
Scores will only be rendered for a subject (ELA or Mathematics) only after both the Computer Adaptive Test (CAT) and Performance Task have been completed by a student and all responses for a student that require hand scoring have been completed by a Test Administrator/Teacher.

8. Administration of Interim Assessments
Grade flexibility
Provides teachers and students the option of testing outside grade level, where appropriate
Available for students in grades 3 through high school
Tests from any grade may be used, depending on purpose.
ICAs may be administered twice during the year and IABs may be administered once.
There is only one fixed form test available for both the ICAs and IABs.
Students will see the same items more than once.
Decisions about test choice and frequency are determined by school plans for test purpose and score use.

9. Interim Assessments Available in 2015-2016

10. Current Interim Assessments
Fully accessible
Fixed form online tests for Spring 2016, to become adaptive as item bank allows in next year
ICAs will be offered in both ELA and Mathematics in Spring 2016.
Current set of IABs available are dependent upon item availability in the interim pool.
Blocks with an asterisk are not available for the school year.

11. English Language Arts IABs
Grade 3-5
Read Literary Texts
Read Informational Texts
Edit/Revise
Brief Writes
Listen/Interpret
Research
Narrative Performance Task*
Informational Performance Task^
Opinion Performance Task**
*Grades 4-5 only in
**Grade 3 only in
^Not available in

12. English Language Arts IABs
Grade 6-8
Read Literary Texts
Read Informational Texts
Edit/Revise
Brief Writes
Listen/Interpret
Research
Narrative Performance Task*
Explanatory Performance Task
Argument Performance Task
*Not available in

13. English Language Arts IABs
High School
Read Literary Texts
Read Informational Texts
Edit/Revise
Brief Writes
Listen/Interpret
Research
Explanatory Performance Task
Argument Performance Task*
*Not available in

14. Mathematics IABs IAB Name
Grade 3 4 5
Operations and Algebraic Thinking a *
Numbers and Operations in Base 10
Fractions
Geometry  *
Measurement and Data
Mathematics Performance Task
*Not available in

15. Mathematics IABs IAB Name
Grade 6 7
Ratio and Proportional Relationships a
Number System *
Expressions and Equations
Geometry
Statistics and Probability
Mathematics Performance Task
*Not available in

16. Grade 8 Mathematics IABs
Expressions & Equations I (and Proportionality)*
Expressions & Equations II*
Functions
Geometry
Mathematics Performance Task
*Available as a single "Expressions & Equations" Block in

17. High School Mathematics IABs Algebra and Functions – Linear Functions
Algebra and Functions – Quadratic Functions
Algebra and Functions – Exponential Functions*
Algebra and Functions – Polynomials Functions*
Algebra and Functions – Radicals Functions*
Algebra and Functions – Rational Functions*
Algebra and Functions – Trigonometric Functions*
*Not available in

18. High School (cont'd) Mathematics IABs
Geometry – Transformations in Geometry*
Geometry – Right Triangle Ratios in Geometry
Geometry – Three - Dimensional Geometry*
Geometry – Proofs*
Geometry – Circles*
Geometry – Applications*
Interpreting Categorical and Quantitative Data*
Probability*
Making Inferences and Justifying Conclusions*
Mathematics Performance Task
*Not available in

19. Reporting of Interim Assessment Results

20. Flow of Scored Test Data
State Hosted and Managed
TIDE
(Test Information Distribution Engine)
TDS
(Test Delivery System)
THSS
(Teacher Hand Scoring System)
ORS
(Online Reporting System)
Individual Student Reports
Identified Student Data
The Online Reporting System (ORS) will be used to render individual student reports.
Scores will only be rendered for a subject (ELA or Mathematics) only after both the Computer Adaptive Test (CAT) and Performance Task have been completed by a student and all responses for a student that require hand scoring have been completed by a Test Administrator/Teacher.

21. Further Information Visit http://idaho.portal.airast.org
Call or the American Institutes for Research ISAT Help Desk
Hours: 8:00 am to 8:00 p.m. MST, Monday-Friday (except holidays)
Phone: 22

22. Thank you for your attention!