1. What Will the New Test Be Like? April Yantis 2012 Smarter Balanced Item Writer 7 th Grade ELA & Literacy Olympic Middle School, Shelton, WA

2. Secure Assessment Items  Writers’ submissions are secure  Writers may share general process  Smarter Balanced website offers transparency  Drafts and updates for items available online Today: Work with Released Items

3. CCSStandards for ELA and Literacy  Reading – 10 standards (+foundational skills K-3)  Writing – 10 standards  Speaking/Listening – 6 standards  Language – 6 standards  Technology – integrated into standards Our Assessment = Smarter Balanced SR: 1pt CR: 2pts TE: both PT: 6? Selected Response Constructed Response Technology Enhanced Performance Tasks

4. Student Evidence for ELA/Lit. Standards Sorted into 4 Groups  Claim 1 – Students can read closely and analytically to comprehend a range of increasingly complex literary and informational texts.  Claim 2 – Students can produce effective writing for a range of purposes and audiences.  Claim 3 – Students can employ effective speaking and listening skills for a range of purposes and audiences.  Claim 4 – Students can engage in research/inquiry to investigate topics, and to analyze, integrate, and present information.

5. Claim 1 …Read closely…analytically... Targets:  Key Details  Central Ideas  Word Meanings  Reasoning & Evidence  Analysis Within or Across Texts  Text Structures & Features  Language Use

6. Claim 2 …Produce effective writing...  Write/Revise Brief Texts (Narrative, Informational, Argumentation)  Compose Full Texts (Argumentation)  Language & Vocabulary Use  Edit/Clarify

7. Claim 3…Effective speaking…listening...  Listen/Interpret: Analyze, interpret, and use information delivered orally or visually

8. Claim 4 …Research to analyze, integrate, present information... Targets:  Analyze/Integrate Information  Evaluate Information/Sources  Use Evidence

9. Path to Released Items

11. Sample: Support a key detail

12. Item’s Claim, Target, CCSS, Rubric

13. Rubric

14. Sample: Add a Beginning, Transition, or Ending

15. Rubrics

16. TE Sample: Technology Enhanced/Enabled

17. Rubric

18. Sample: Support Your Argument

19. Rubrics

20. PT Performance Tasks

21. PT Text, charts, videos: Stimuli for Performance Tasks

22. Olympic M.S. Assessments: Used MSP Assessment Format

23. No Test Prep If….  You can use Online Samples to Write Items that Fit your Classwork

24. Remember this sample item? Add a Beginning, Transition, or Ending

25. Practice: Assessment Item for your Class  Write a BRIEF piece (4-8 sentences) Possibility: smoothly move between two scenes, like swimming followed by a picnic

26. Assessment Items for your Class  Write a BRIEF piece, smoothly moving between two scenes (4-8 sentences)  Now ONLY deconstruct a couple sentences Make them very general or vague Cut their elaboration Use kidspeak Create incorrect conventions or texting shortcuts Cut the smooth transition to a new scene Skip the lead-in or ending – abruptly start or stop

27. Assessment Items for your Class  Tell your elbow partner what will need to be changed (missing elaboration, conclusion, etc.)  Read your item.  Let your partner identify the incorrect area and bring it up to standard.

28. What About Informational Text? Students:  Find key details to support a central idea  Write a brief summary (key details + central idea)  Identify which parts are an author’s opinion  Support inferences with details from text  Identify weak areas of an argument, and rewrite them  Identify portions of a text that don’t support an argument

29. Sample Test Items – Generalities  Summary lacking a key detail  The relationship between plot and setting  Find evidence that this is the author’s opinion  Differentiate between shades of meaning in text  Summary: out of order  Create a logical sense of order and wholeness through transitions: show sentence to sentence progression  Find a sentence that doesn’t support an argument  Find a sentence that disrupts the flow  Show how a character changes over course of story  Insert dialogue  How does dialogue move this story forward

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