9/16/2014 Assessment and Accountability Update Dr. Scott Smith, CSAS Director Beth Fultz, CSAS Assistant Director of Assessments Kansas State Department of Education 9/16/14 August and September, 2014 1 9/16/2014 All students grades 3-8 take the same state assessment. All students in HS would take the state assessment, unless they had already demonstrated College & Career Readiness on another assessment (ACT, SAT, CPASS, etc.) commonly referred to as the Bouquet Model.. The state assessment would be the SBAC assessment. The state board approved the Bouquet Model, but chose to have CETE develop the state assessment. Approved the Kansas ESEA Flex Waiver for one more year, 2014-15 Removed our “High Risk” status, meaning we can move forward with our teacher/leader evaluation model and using student growth as a significant factor Allowed Kansas to use student growth as a significant factor in the 2017-18 school year. Exempted Kansas from reporting 2014 assessment results due to the DDoS situation during the testing window. Did not approve the Kansas Assessment Bouquet Model • Performance on ACT, SAT, State Assessment is not comparable. • Each child has to take the same test, grades 3-8 & HS 2 9/16/2014 The statement below is taken from a letter sent from Assistant Secretary of Education Deborah Delisle to the KSDE and received on August 24, 2014: 3 9/16/2014 -- An 11th grade cohort was chosen to maximize instructional time in high school in response to AYP targets. (The ELA and Mathematics intended cohort in 2005 was actually grade 10.) -- OTL began as a policy to align test administration with instruction during grades 9, 10, and 11; a double-testing option was added in response to the AYP mandate to make all students proficient by 2014. -- Emphasis was placed on monitoring “Optional,” “Priority,” and “Complete” students for building-level AYP determinations. -- Some schools tested 9th graders to determine or “diagnose” those who were proficient and whose scores could be “banked” toward making AYP. -- The OTL policy created a three-year footprint comprised of formative assessments, interim assessments, double-testing, banking scores, and monitoring individual student assessment histories while at the same time rewarding only proficient scores for AYP, nothing higher. 4 9/16/2014 10 5 9/16/2014 6 9/16/2014 The Role of the State Assessment in Kansas High Schools 7 9/16/2014 Step #1: http://www.ksassessments.org/ Step #2: Click the “Transitional Summative Reports Available” link under the “News” banner on the right of the screen. Step #3: After clicking the link in step 2, you’ll be directed to a brief paragraph explaining the 2014 cyber attack and the need for the reports. Click the word “report” in this paragraph. 8 9/16/2014 Testing Window March 9 – May 15 ELA and Math grades 3 – 8 and 10 Science grades 4, 7 and 11 History/Government grades 6, 8 and 11 9 9/16/2014 ELA and Math • Part 1 – 25 machine scored items • Multiple choice and technology enhanced • Parts 2 & 3 – 15 machine scored items • Adaptable sections of the assessment beginning 2016 • Part 4 – 15 field test items Performance Task • Grades 3 – 8 in Math and ELA • No performance tasks in grade 10 - 2015 • Grade 11 History/Government • No performance task in Science - 2015 ELA – Multidisciplinary Performance Task (MDPT) • Writing Types: N=narrative; OA=opinion (3-5)/Argument; IE=informative/Explanatory 2015 Field Test Grade 3 4 5 Topic Variety Variety Science Variety HGSS Variety Science HGSS HGSS OA OA OA OA OA OA OA OA OA IE IE IE IE IE IE IE IE IE N N N N N N N Possible Writing Types 6 7 8 11 10 9/16/2014 CETE coordinates all scoring All performance tasks must be hand scored • Scoring must be completed before the standard setting meetings in July Distributed Scoring Model • Online Training • Teachers grade a group of students from a different district • Teachers grade a group of their own students November 19 • Performance Level Descriptors (PLDs) meeting in Lawrence to write the narrative descriptors for the 4 performance levels • Recruitment • 2 panelists per grade per subject • Familiarity with content standards Week of July 20 • Standard Setting (cut scores) 11 9/16/2014 DLM – ELA and Math • Through-course testing model with 3 different windows • Consortium developed assessment • Standard Setting (cut scores) – summer 2015 DLM – Science • pilot History/Government • pilot KELPA-P • Paper/pencil assessment • Managed and reported by KSDE for 2015 ELPA 21 • Consortium Assessment • Pilot 2015 • Recruiting volunteers 12 9/16/2014 Break KITE Day info will be sent to all schools following the State Board meeting. The idea is for the entire state to simulate the maximum assessment load in both the local system and across the state as a whole for the CETE system. Every student in the state will be reset to have Text-toSpeech and graphics to create the largest strain on systems. Schools will be asked to simulate the largest amount of testing which would be expected during the assessments on Break KITE day. 13