Delaware Assessment Inventory Updates
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Smarter Balanced Summative Assessment Updates
Penny Schwinn and Carolyn Lazar
Assessment, Accountability, Performance and Evaluation Branch
April 2015
Topics
Five-Year Assessment Plan and Inventory
(State)
Assessment Inventory (Districts)
Smarter Balanced Update
Overview: Future of Assessment in
Delaware
The Office of Assessment has spent the last 6 months
reviewing current state assessments
Through district and school feedback, observations,
performance routines, etc., DDOE has noted that there is
replication in the comprehensive use of assessments
across the state (including state, district, and school
assessments)
Over the next five years, the goal is to reduce total
testing time and ensure that students are given
meaningful assessments, with information that supports
teaching in the classroom
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Guidelines for Effective Assessment
Systems
Meet Overall Assessment Goals and Ensure
Technical Quality
Align to Standards
Yield Valuable Reports on Student Progress and
Performance
Not Repetitive
Adhere to Best Practices in Administration
An Aligned System of Diagnostic and Interim
Assessments
Why is this Important?
Shared responsibility of reducing testing
State has done this for past two years
Feedback from our communities
Increases instructional time
Focuses assessments on those most
beneficial to instruction
Supports the development of a long range
assessment plan
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State-level Inventory: Five Year Plan
Smarter Balanced
DCAS
End-of-Course
Alternative Assessments
PSAT, SAT, ACCESS, NAEP
District-Level Inventory
DDOE to release a grant opportunity to fund district ability to:
Complete the assessment inventory
Develop an action plan to execute on findings
Develop a communications and community engagement process
Grants became available early April and are due at the end of the month
DOE will complete a template grant application
Award amounts will vary based on district size; specific amounts will be provided
to each district
Awards may be used for:
Full-time staff member or contractor to facilitate process
Teacher stipends
Teach More, Test Less! The Plan.
Phase One:
Review
Current Status
Phase Two:
Develop
Action Plan
Phase Three:
Implement
Action Plan
Phase One: Review Current Status
Establish an assessment strategy
Why do we assess?
What are components of comprehensive
testing system?
Identify and train teams of teachers to review
current assessments
Conduct a comprehensive review of local
assessments
Administer the district/school inventory of current
assessments
Phase Two: Develop Action Plan
Engage with teacher, parents, students and
others to determine recommendations
Recommendation for each assessment
No change, Modification, Replacement,
Elimination
Rationale for decision
Authority
Timing of Recommendation
Action Steps
Develop the final plan
Phase Three: Implement Action Plan
Implement each component of the action plan
Review status periodically to determine success
Review data for instructional time gained
Survey teachers
Technical Assistance
Sample Project Plans
Achieve
Webinar or on-site mentoring
Resources and Technical Support
DOE will provide other resources districts may
consider as part of your budget (accompanying
the grant template)
Will include organizations/individuals to
contract with
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SMARTER BALANCED UPDATE
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Smarter Assessment Status
ELA
Mathematics
Tests Completed
15,132
9,175
Districts/Charters
22
21
District counts as of 4/10/15
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Smarter Assessment Status by District
District
Appo
Brandywine
Caesar
Rodney
Capital
Christina
Colonial
Delmar
Indian River
ELA
Math
2604
1769
3232
846
District
ELA
Math
544
671
578
582
1336
36
57
56
430
976
552
832
567
114
Lake Forest
Laurel
Milford
291
294
804
697
Red Clay
Seaford
Smyrna
2194
1598
Woodbridge
729
728
Charters
908
239
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Smarter Summative Assessment
Most Significant Issues and Resolutions
Issues
Resolutions
DeSSA trained user flag is Issue unresolved. Temporary work-around to
not successfully being
open test session development requirement with
updated in DeSSA TIDE
monitoring. End-to-end user test currently under
way.
Accommodations data
transfer experiencing
issues
Issue unresolved. Students incorrectly
appearing as custom for accommodations in
the test administrator interface. Work-around
requires test administrators to employ additional
efforts to validate accommodations for every
student. AIR currently working on issue.
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Smarter Assessment System
Issues and Resolutions
Issues
Resolutions
Hand-scoring:
new process
Assessment/curriculum collaboration for
training considering assessment and
instructional aspects. Turnkey training
provided.
Hand-scoring:
new technical system
Curriculum/assessment collaboration with
Washington state and AIR. Training
resources posted on portal for Teacher
Hand-Scoring System (THSS).
Hand-scoring:
Conference calls with other states,
Inconsistent display of Smarter staff, AIR. Collaboration and
resources in system
sharing of resources. Sources, prompts,
and materials deployed.
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Smarter Assessment System Feedback
18 districts have received personal contact calls
10 districts/charters average participation in
weekly District Test Coordinator (DTC)
conference/webinar calls
Number of questions range from 34-3, generally
decreasing from week to week
Help Desk issues generally greater than DCAS
at this time last year, but new assessment
AIR Help Desk counts included on handout by
district
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Smarter Assessment System Feedback
Students like the Smarter assessments better
than DCAS
More interesting
Has listening
More realistic
Teachers pleased to have writing included,
frustrated to not have prompts and sources
available for interim hand-scoring
Alignment with standards
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Smarter Assessment System Feedback
Office of Assessment has expanded
communication efforts
Face-to-face District Test Coordinator (DTC) meetings
eNewsletters for DTCs
Weekly webinar/conference calls with DTCs
Weekly assessment team personal contact calls to
DTCs
Presentations with stakeholder groups
Posting of materials, resources on the DOE website
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QUESTIONS
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