Robyn Seifert

February 6, 2013

smarterbalanced.org K-12 EDUCATION

Administrators

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Summative assessment to be administered during the last 12 weeks of the school year

Optional interim assessments that can be used to check student progress throughout the year

Digital library of formative assessment practices and professional learning resources for teachers.

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Summative and optional interim assessmentsComputer adaptive assessment that provides

more accurate and efficient measures of student achievement and growth

Variety of assessment item types selected response, constructed response, technology

enhanced items, and performance tasks

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Data will be available in a timely way through an online portal.

On-demand access to resources on assessment literacy through the digital library

Professional development and training for teams of educators from each state

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Fall 2012: Teacher teams write Field Test items and tasks

Early 2013: Begin development of online professional learning materials on the assessment system, the Common Core, using reporting data and utilizing online resources

Spring 2013: Pilot test of summative and interim assessment items and performance tasks

Spring 2013: Pilot test scoring

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Spring 2014: Smarter Balanced conducts Field test of summative and interim assessment items and performance tasks

Summer/Fall 2014: Training materials available for all users on interpreting interim and summative assessment reports, searching resources, and using collaboration tools in the Digital Library

Fall 2014: Smarter Balanced assessments and digital library ready for use by states

Spring 2015: States administer summative assessment during last 12 weeks of the school year 8

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Building Awareness

Mathematical Practices How do we teach?

Content Standards What do we teach?

Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium

Did they learn?

15%

5%

80%

Tier 3

Intensive Interventions

(Times and frequency varies)

Tier 2

Targeted Interventions

(30 minutes, 2 – 5 days per week)

Tier 1

Differentiated Core Instruction

(60 minutes/day)

Without additional Tier 2 support,some students may not be ready to learn.

Claim 1: Concepts and Procedures (40%) Recall and reproduction of facts and other

types of information. Claim 2: Problem Solving (20%)

Basic skills and concepts that require cognitive processes that extend beyond the recall of information.

Claim 3: Communicating Reasoning (20%) Strategic thinking and reasoning.

Claim 4: Modeling and Data Analysis (20%) Extended thinking that includes complex

reasoning, planning, development, and cognition that occurs over an extended period of time.

Screen for Procedural FluencyIES: Assisting Struggling Students

Recommendation #2Introduction to the Math Shiftsof the CCSS

Acheivethecore.org

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