1. Administrator Days Statewide Assessment Presented July 30, 2014
Valorie Foy- Director
Jeremy Heneger- Assistant Director
Ed Foy- Writing Director
John Moon- NeSA Project Manager
Kim Snyder- NAEP Coordinator
Tammi Peterman- Administrative Assistant

2. Nebraska School Accountability [NeSA]
Moving forward with
Nebraska School Accountability [NeSA]

3. Letter of Assurances from Data Recognition Corporation
NeSA components available by September 1--Will be available August 29
Software Update
Online Tools Training ( + Spanish)
Practice Tests (+ Spanish)
Guided practice tests
Text-to-speech
Check for Learning

4. DRC Assurances
No new system downloads during the year except as needed to benefit districts (iPad and Chromebook- end of September)
Better load and capacity testers
DRC Technology Representative in Nebraska for Level II Technology Support— will work with districts as needed
More “real-time” reporting of technology updates/incidents.
Discussion of co-location of DRC servers

5. Updates Clear button removed from NeSA- Writing test
New entry screen (Less confusing)
Better system in eDIRECT for student look-up and test management
Chromebook and iPad Pilot statewide
Chromebooks and iPads can be used for NeSA-Reading, Math, Science- March-May 2015

6. Updates
Optional Spellchecker as a Special Education accommodation for NeSA-W
New field added in spring 2015 to allow Individual Student Reports to be sortable by student's school of attendance in the fall
All data changes due to zero score removals, writing verifications and such will go back to eDIRECT after all data are corrected

7. Standards/Assessment Transition
English/Language Arts Standards Fall 2014
Transition of Assessments
Depth of Knowledge and Format of items
Alignment
Item Sampler
Table of Specifications
Item Development
Item Piloting
Operational Tests
Standard Setting

8. Assessment/Accountability Advisory Committee
40-50 educators, representative schools and policy partners in Nebraska
Met in June 2014
Two meetings per year-fall and spring

9. Check4Learning Assistant Director- Jeremy Heneger

10. Check4Learning (C4L) System is running
Districts can go ahead and add students and teachers to the system
Usage-continues to increase
Returning districts-no additional requirements
Districts are still welcome to join
Videos will be updated in September

12. iPad & Chromebook Pilot

13. iPad & Chromebook Pilot
Purpose-ensure that INSIGHT is working on these devices prior to use for NeSA-RMS
October 27-November 7
Application will be available October 1
Pilot is open to all districts
Districts determine their level of participation
A single test at each grade level-5, 8, & 11
About 30 items covering RMS and a survey about the experience

14. 2014-2015 NeSA-Writing Edward Foy-Director of Statewide Writing

15. Dates September 11 Prompt Writing in Lincoln
NeSA-Writing Grade 4 workshops for 4th Grade Teachers
October 21st Scottsbluff----ESU 13
October 22 and 23 Kearney----ESU 10
October 24 Norfolk----ESU 8
October 28 Beatrice----ESU 5 (Confirming)

16. Accommodation Changes
The spell checker will be available on-line at grades 8 and 11 for students with an IEP or 504 plan.
The spell checker as an accommodation will be available for:
NeSA-W Practice Test
NeSA-W Field Test
NeSA-W Test

17. Changes to NeSA-W
The Clear button has been removed from the system for the upcoming year. The remaining tools now come closer to functioning much the same as they do in word processing programs that students use on a daily basis.

18. Transcriptions
NeSA-W under accommodations will have a bubble to fill in if the students’ paper was transcribed. The Transcription Form will contain a reminder to fill in this bubble.

19. NDE would like to retain the following:
Prompt Creation
Field Testing
Prompt Selection
Rangefinding
Score Verification
Field Testing is the keystone activity for the above!

20. Request for Field Testing
NDE is requesting schools seriously consider participation the field test.
Grade 8/11 will be on-line through the NeSA testing site. Prompts are assigned randomly to students.
This is an opportunity for students to practice taking the test under the same conditions as the regular NeSA-W test.
As a field test of future prompts for NeSA –W, the test results cannot be used in any other way. (example no local scoring)
NDE appreciates school’s supporting this project as we want to keep prompt writing in the hands of Nebraska educators.

21. Request for Field Testing
Grade 4 Field Testing will take place in the spring. The testing is paper pencil.
Rangefinding is dependent upon the Field Test.

22. 2014 NeSA-W 8/11 On-Line Test Times
Time Span Grade 8
in Minutes:
Time Span Grade 11
0 – 30 minutes
0 –
30 – 60 minutes
30 – 60 minutes
60 – 90 minutes
60 – 90 minutes
90 + minutes
90 + minutes
Total tested
Total tested

23. Nebraska Performance Accountability System
NePAS

24. Nebraska Performance Accountability System
History
Board Policy
NePAS in current form
LB # 438-Legislature
Framework- State Board
Statute

25. Implementation of Statute 79-760
Identification of three priority schools designated most in need of assistance to improve
August 2015 – initial run of NePAS with the classification of all schools and school districts
August 2016 – Priority Schools present their plans to State Board for approval

26. Implementation-the model
The model to determine performance level of each school and district—
Recommendations to the State Board for further input developed by
NePAS 1.1 Task Force
Reading, Math, Science, Writing
Status, Improvement, Growth
Graduation Rate
All students and subgroup(s)

27. Second Pass of schools in the lowest performance level to identify three priority schools
To be based on a fuller picture of each school in order to identify schools most in need of assistance to improve

28. Accountability-School Improvement- All Schools
Communication
Learning from effective processes and strategies

29. Accountability-Vision for the future
Include other factors not yet available as data, possible-
Dual Credit
Advanced Placement
Industry Certification
International Baccalaureate
Preschool Programs

30. NeSA-Release August 26th-10:00 a.m. Video Stream
Release of NeSA-Reading, Math, Science and Writing-Grade 4

31. District Information New DAC—need superintendent email
New N-TAC- need superintendent
New or reorganized districts--need superintendent
DAC
N-TAC
Address

32. Questions
Do not hesitate to contact us at any time