1. Multidisciplinary Performance Task
Reminders, Updates, & More Samples

2. Review: Performance Task
Students…
Read
Process
Compose
While some refer to the MDPT as a writing assessment, it is important to remember that this is actually a performance task, and students are engaging in a recursive process that may include reading or viewing, critical thinking/processing, and then composing notes or a final response. Both activities allow students the space to engage in all three of these throughout the task.

3. MDPT Window: February 16-March 10
Review: Window
MDPT Window: February 16-March 10
The window was moved up, due to the need to have responses scored by teachers and ready in time to be combined with scores from the machine-scored part of the assessment.

4. Review: Structure MDPT Structure:
Activity 1: Students read/view resources (approx. 25 mins)
Activity 2: Students write response to prompt (approx. 25 mins)
*All Kansas State Assessments are untimed. Students should be allowed as much time as they need to complete each assessment.
Schools may choose whether to administer the two activities in a single block or in two different blocks, maybe even on different days. Time estimates are based on field test data from 2015.

5. 2016 Multidisciplinary Performance Task Possible Writing Types
Review: Prompts
2016 Multidisciplinary Performance Task
Grade 3 4 5 6 7 8
10 (Field Test for ELA only) 11
Topic
Variety
Science
HGSS
Possible Writing Types OA IE N  N
OA = Opinion or Argument
IE = Informative or Explanatory
N = Narrative

6. Review: Number of Prompts per Grade
Field Test: Many prompts
Operational Test: One prompt per grade
What does this mean?
Test security is paramount.
Last year, many prompts were field tested at each grade so that CETE would have a bank of prompts and resources to use in subsequent testing years. Now that this assessment is operational for grades 3-8 and 11, one prompt per grade level has been selected, and all students in a given grade will receive the same resources and the same prompt each year.

7. Review: Scoring
• Human-scored by Kansas teachers • Online training (approx. 2 hours) • Online scoring (approx. 3 mins per response) • Districts asked to score 1.5 times the number of MDPTs their students take • “Score your own” is not a thing.
The scoring window will open closer to the closing of the MDPT assessment window. Information about scoring registration and training will be distributed as it becomes available.

8. Review: Teacher-created samples
This is the address of the ELA portal. Here, you can find teacher-created MDPT samples that may be used with students, or used as models to create samples more aligned with your local curriculum. This is also the address where you can find newly-released field tested resources, prompts, and scored student responses.

9. Update: Samples!
CETE has been able to provide samples of actual tasks that were field tested last year.
Samples include:
Resources provided to students
Prompt(s) provided to students
Scored responses with explanations of reasons for scores
While we anticipate releasing more samples in future years, this year we are able to release resources, prompts and scored student responses for grades 6, 8 and 11. The 11th grade is for History, Government, Social Studies only. These can be found in the right column of the ELA portal: