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Montana Common Core

Transition

June 2013 CCSSO Conference ShowcaseJudy SnowState Assessment Director

• 56 Counties• 491 Districts• 824 Schools• 142,000 Students• 12,199 Licensed Staff

• Largest of the 8 Rocky Mountain States• 4th in size among the 50 states• 147,046 square miles

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Development

Accountability

Use of data

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Review cycle built into administrative rule “Old” Standards adopted before NCLB

Used for current state assessment, Reading and Math

“Middle Standards”—adopted in 2010-11 Math and ELA

Montana Common Core Standards—adopted in 2011-12

Math and ELA

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In the middle of the CCSS movement CCSS used as resource and partial model in

the development of middle standards Development of middle standards Some middle standards modeled on the CCSS

Timeline for development of assessment for middle standards fell almost on top of the movement to the CCSS

Wrote and field tested items to middle standards with plans for full implementation within two years

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State superintendent directed staff to development studies to compare middle and CCSS for Math and ELA.

External evaluators Montana educators

Middle standards panels Achieve Gap Analysis Tool

Survey of Enacted Curriculum Content Maps

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Montana Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) Considered timelines and studyRecommended if adopt CCSS

continue testing the old standard abandon the middle develop field test items written and coded

to the CCSS.

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Prior to adoption Governing state, Smarter Balanced--2010 Facts about Smarter Informational meetings on Common Core

Standards Montana Board of Public Education

November 2011

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Montana’s statewide test and educator panels—large group of ambassadors regarding assessment literacy related to the standards

Coding released items to both Montana “Middle” standards and Montana Common Core Standard

Field testing items written to the Common Core Standards—educator panel reviews

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• State assessment: CRT based on “old” Montana standards– Reporting stays the same

• Field testing– Items aligned to Montana Common

Core Standards (MCCS)– Progressive release of field test items

aligned to MCCS

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Operational (scored) items where possible, items will align to both the

previous Montana Standards and the new Montana Common Core Standards (MCCS)

Field test (non-scored) items will be written to align with the MCCS,

targeting standards that are similar to those in the previous Montana Standards

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Continue to focus on items that will meet the existing MontCAS test blueprint

Gradually introduce items that also align to MCCS into the test

Code test items to both sets of standards for as long as this is practical and desirable

Stop developing and field testing new items that match only the “old” Montana Standards

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Many of the standards are very similar between Montana Standards and MCCS

Priority will be made of first field-testing items that match both sets of standards, so differences will be minimized

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Assessments: pilot, field, practice Participation in item development,

review, range-finding Formative Assessment/Digital Library

State Leadership Team State Network of Educator

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Bright Ideas—Connecting with the Common CoreInstructional modulesAssessment development

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