1. Michigan’s Lessons and Uses of the CTEAG
Adam Wyse and Steve Viger
Michigan Department of Education
Office of Educational Assessment and Accountability

2. Michigan’s Part of CTEAG Study
Part of larger pilot study to develop a new 2% AA-MAS
Focused on grade 6 ELA for CTEAG
Investigated Scaffolding and Removing Answer Choices
Students in study took general assessment and modified 2% pilot test with scaffolding
Results from CTEAG suggested that scaffolding had a positive impact in grade 6
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3. Challenges Michigan Faced
Recruiting schools to do multiple separate administrations
Conducting a stand-alone administration
Flexibility to fit study within other state administrations and research initiatives
Changes in MI staff involved in different stages and parts of project
Timing of study
Need to provide data back to study participants
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4. Michigan’s 2% AA-MAS
Administered operationally for first time in Fall 2009
Included scaffolding and fewer answer choices
Sample of students changed drastically from students identified and administered pilot version in Winter of 2009
Found some technical challenges due to change in student population
Decided that additional revisions and modifications were needed before setting cut scores
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5. Michigan’s 2% AA-MAS
Even though revisions of AA-MAS needed still required to submit documents for peer review
Submitted results from CTEAG as evidence that MI investigated and will continue to investigate accommodations and modifications on its AA-MAS
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6. Future Steps for AA-MAS
Examined strategies other states are considering on their AA-MAS to increase student access
Convened panel of MI stakeholders for what strategies MI should consider
Stakeholders provided new recommendations for strategies which included scaffolding in ELA and several new approaches
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7. Future Steps for AA-MAS
New strategies suggested were applied to items and tried out in a cog lab study as part of redesign
Results from cog lab study were positive and scaffolding remained an important factor for increasing access in ELA
Planning to embed AA-MAS items and new formats on general assessment and top level of AA-AAS to further investigate their performance for a range of students
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8. Michigan’s Experience
Enjoyed project and working with researchers and people from other states
Challenged us to think about student accommodations and score comparability in greater depth
Learned quite a bit about accommodations and policies in other states
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9. Conclusions and Other Future Steps
Investigating additional approaches to examine score comparability for students with disabilities and students that receive different types of accommodations
Interested in working with other states and researchers on projects for AA-AAS and AA-MAS
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10. Michigan Department of Education 608 W. Allegan St. Lansing, MI 48909
Contact Information
Adam Wyse
(517)
Steve Viger
(517)
Michigan Department of Education 608 W. Allegan St. Lansing, MI 48909
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