Slide 1 of 17 April 2015 DAC Update Presentation by: Office of
Student Assessment Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction April
30, 2015
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Slide 2 of 17 April DAC Update Overview In this DAC Update:
Slide 2: Overview Slides 3 7: Badger Slides 8 12: ACT Slides 13 16:
ACCESS for ELLs Slide 17: General Contact Information Total Length
w/Audio: approximately 11 minutes
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Slide 3 of 17 Badger Exam Updates April 2015 Viji Somasundaram
Assessment Coordinator
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Slide 4 of 17 Test Window Badger Exam test window goes until
05/29/2015
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Slide 5 of 17 Badger Exam Testing Status Around 60 % of testing
completed As of April 29th *668,440 cumulative tests have been
completed *1,564 unique schools have begun testing (88% of all
schools)
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Slide 6 of 17 Test Status Report District users now have the
Test Status Report available under the Reports tab. This report is
updated nightly and can help monitor the testing status of all
students. Schools may contact their DAC to review this report.
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Slide 7 of 17 Badger Exam Reporting DACs will be notified in
late May or early June regarding the timelines for the Badger Exam
results and aggregate reports. TOMS Reporting Suite will provide
permissioned users with interactive and cumulative online private
reports for mathematics and English language arts (ELA) at state,
district, school, and student level.
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Slide 8 of 17 DAC Updates: ACT High School Assessments April
2015 Peggy Roush College and Career Readiness Assessment
Coordinator
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Slide 10 of 17 Aspire ACT Aspire Early High School Frequently
Asked Questions ACT Aspire Early High School Frequently Asked
Questions Wisconsin Summative Important Testing Updates 4-23-15
Wisconsin Summative Important Testing Updates 4-23-15 DPI Guidance:
Special Testing Situations for ACT Aspire Early High School DPI
Guidance: Special Testing Situations for ACT Aspire Early High
School ACT Aspire Opt-Out Communication Summative Test Session
Creation for 10 th Grade Summative Test Session Creation for 10 th
Grade ACT Aspire Infrastructure Trial Guide
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Slide 11 of 17 ACT/WorkKeys Reports
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Slide 12 of 17 Peggy Roush College and Career Readiness
Assessment Coordinator WI DPI Office of Student Assessment
[email protected]
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Slide 13 of 17 DAC Updates: ACCESS for ELLs April 2015 Audrey
Lesondak Assessment Coordinator
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Slide 14 of 17 ACCESS for ELLs Reminders Score Reports have
been sent to districts. Contact MetriTech directly if your
district: Administered the ACCESS during the test window but has
not yet received score reports Has any changes to the reports Needs
translations of reports into other languages Would like access to a
data file of your districts ACCESS for ELLs score report data
Sample cover letters to accompany score reports have also been
translated into many languages. These are housed on WIDAs website
at:
https://www.wida.us/assessment/ACCESS/https://www.wida.us/assessment/ACCESS/
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Slide 15 of 17 ACCESS for ELLs 2.0 2015-16 Updates The Testing
Window is December 7, 2015 - February 5, 2016 Training for the new
online system will be available beginning late summer/early fall of
2015. Resources regarding the new assessment can be found at the
link below. This site will continue to be updated over the next few
months. https://www.wida.us/assessment/access20-prep.aspx.
https://www.wida.us/assessment/access20-prep.aspx
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Slide 16 of 17 ACCESS for ELLs 2.0 Headset Requirements ACCESS
2.0 will require headsets (headphone and microphone combination) A
list of some headset options can be found at:
https://www.wida.us/assessment/ACCESS%202.0/doc
uments/Headset-specifications.pdf
https://www.wida.us/assessment/ACCESS%202.0/doc
uments/Headset-specifications.pdf
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Slide 17 of 17 THANK YOU! For questions or assistance: Visit
the Office of Student Assessments website: http://oea.dpi.wi.gov/
http://oea.dpi.wi.gov/ Email us at:
[email protected]@dpi.wi.gov Connect with an OSA team
member: http://oea.dpi.wi.gov/assessment/staffdirectory
http://oea.dpi.wi.gov/assessment/staffdirectory