1. Getting Smarter About CAASPP

2. Overview of CAASPP  English Language Arts: Smarter Balanced Assessment  Math: Smarter Balanced Assessment  Science: California Standards Test / California Modified Assessment  Early Advanced Placement (EAP): Smarter Balanced Assessment

3. Who Is Exempt from Smarter Balanced?  Students who take the California Alternate Assessment (CAA)  Newcomers to the U.S. are exempt from ELA only

4. Smarter Balanced Assessment  Computer Adaptive  + OR - 2 GRADES  Fully Operational  Results (Individual and School)

5. Projected Pass Rates for 2015 GradePass Rate ELAPass Rate Math 338%39% 441%37% 544%33% 641%33% 738%33% 841%32% 1141%33%

6. STAR Districtwide Averages 2004 - 2013 Percent at Proficient and Advanced ~ ELA Percent at Proficient and Advanced ~ Math

7. Designated Supports  Designated supports can be provided to potentially any child.  Teacher recommendation  Site review  Parent Contact

8. Potential Designated Supports for English Learners Mathematics Translated Test Directions Test Translation in Spanish Translation Glossary ELA Performance Task Essay English Dictionary Bilingual Dictionary Thesaurus ELA and Math Assessments English Glossary

9. Primary Language Assessment Reading Language Arts  Jan. 28 & 29 Stakeholder Meeting  100 Californians Selected  Recommendations regarding new test  First year of testing: 2016-17

10. ELA Computer Adaptive Item Types

11. Selected Response (Single Answer, Single Option)

12. Highlight

13. Selected Response (Single Answer, All Options)

14. Arrange

15. Brief Constructed Response

16. Selected Response (Multiple Answers, All Options)

17. Speaking / Listening Items

18. Research Items

19. Math Computer Adaptive Item Types

20. Drag and Drop / Matching

21. Matching (Multiple Answers, All Options)

22. Graph Creation

23. Selected Response (Multiple Answers, All Options)

24. Problem Solving

25. Practice Tests  1) www.caaspp.org www.caaspp.org  2)  3) 4)

26. Smarter Balanced Implementation

27. Smarter Balanced Interims  2014-15  Practice  Instructional Tool  2015-16  Benchmark Assessment  Specific Points of the Year  Provides Student Data

28. Smarter Balanced Summative Assessment  2014-15 Testing  End of the Year Test  Window: April 27 – May 29  One grade per week  Grades 3 – 8, 11  Results  Individual (Scale Score and Claim Score)  School  District

29. What Can I Do To Help My Child?  Take the Smarter Balanced Practice Test Together  Read Together  Reading, Language Arts:  Talk to your child  Ask complex questions  Have your child explain their thinking  Mathematics:  Ensure that your child can:  Subtract, Add, Multiply, Divide (according to their grade level)  Talk to your child about how you use Math

30. Encourage a Growth Mindset Praise your child:  for their effort in school (even when they fail).  when they take on and persist through challenges.  when they learn from criticism. Encourage your child:  to see that intelligence is grown with hard work.  to be more focused on the process of learning than the result of the final grade.  When students believe that they can get smarter through their hard work, they will improve faster and experience greater success than students who do not believe this.

31. Resources http://www.caaspp.org/practice-and-training/index.html (Smarter Balanced Practice Tests) http://www.smarterbalanced.org/ (Smarter Balanced Informational Website) http://www.smarterbalanced.org/parents-students/como-ayudar-a- todos-los-estudiantes-a-que-tengan-exito/ (Smarter Balanced Website - Spanish Page) http://commoncore-espanol.com/ (Common Core Spanish Translation)