CAASPP Prep Week of 1-26-14
- Share your testing calendars and solicit feedback from your staff. Notify me of any changes.
- Identify dates for your SBAC Interim Assessment practice test for ELA and Math. All staff that will administer the summative assessment to students need to participate in this activity. This activity will take 1 class period for each test. Test/activity dates should be between February 23rd and March 27th. Email me your dates and which teachers will participate (ie ELA Grade 11 and US History teachers) by February 6th.
- Conference with your SH teachers and explain the process of the Science CAPA exams and the new Alternate Assessments. Key talking points include the following:
- CAPA paper and pencil timelines. Testing needs to be completed and materials returned by May 1st. (Testing window is April 15th to May 1st)
- Review basic information regarding the Alternate Assessments for ELA and Math
- 1:1 administration
- 90 in ELA and 90 min in math per student
- Documentation available in mid march
- Document questions they may have and send to me.
- Review your headphone inventory and start thinking about distribution during the interim assessment/practice test activity in March and the summative assessments
- Review the Directions for Administration for the Smarter Balanced Online Assessments. This will give you a good idea of the mess
youyour principal got you into. - Online Test Administration Manual (PDF) (posted 1/23/15)
- Block out your calendar for training on February 11th from 8 am to 10 am. This will cover logistical and some technical components. Site Coordinators and Tech TOSAs need to attend.
- Make sure that the SBAC Site Coordinator and the Tech TOSA sign up for one of the following trainings on the SBAC Interim Assessments (you don't have to both go on the same day). An email from Xochitl will be coming out soon.
- February 12th from 4pm to 6pm
- February 18th from 8am to 11am
- February 18th from 12pm to 3pm
- February 26th from 4pm to 6pm
- In the comments field below (you must be signed into Google), please post a comment regarding something new you learned in the Online Test Administration Manual or a question you have regarding the information above.
The online Administration Manual has lots of information!
ReplyDeleteNo question at this time.
Thank you Charles!
1) Is the alternate assessment computerized or is in paper/pencil
ReplyDelete2) Will there be the same hierarchy of prompts in the new alternate assessments as their were in CAPA 1.
3) If the assessment is computerized, how do teachers accommodate hand over hand accommodation?
4) Do SH teachers need to add accommodations to the special factors page for the alternate assessment?
Hi Adriana, thank you for the great questions! Here are the answers:
ReplyDelete1. The alternate assessment for ELA and Math (grades 5-8 and grade 11) is computerized, meaning the proctor inputs the scores into a web based program. The Science exams (grades 5,8, and 10) are the old CAPA exams and are paper/pencil just like previous years.
2. This is unknown at this time.
3. Hand over hand is not allowed.
4. I will differ this to the Special Education department but suggest documenting accommodations that students receive in the regular classroom setting in the notes section. We should know more about available accommodations in March.
Information updated today:
DeleteCalifornia Alternate Assessment
On January 16, 2015, the Alternate Performance Assessments for California (APAC) was announced to be the successor to the California Alternate Performance Assessment for English–language arts (ELA) and for mathematics. Upon further consideration, the name has been changed to the California Alternate Assessment (CAA) to eliminate the word “performance.” The CAA, based on alternate achievement standards that are linked to the state academic content standards for ELA and mathematics, will be field-tested this spring from April 15 through June 10.
Levels of complexity.Students will experience items at all levels of complexity during the field test in order to gather data on how the items perform. The purpose will be to find out how the items perform across the range of student academic performance. Students may perform better on some items than others because some items will be more difficult. Please provide this information about item complexity before the field test in order to manage test administrators’ expectations.
Student-level data. Because this is a field test to gather item-level data, no student or school level results will be provided. Test accommodations. Accommodations noted in a student’s individualized education program or Section 504 plan that are regularly used during instruction and for state testing may be used during the CAA field test. These accommodations, as appropriate for any pupil taking the CAA, will be included through the TOMS registration system as the CAA field test will be delivered on the same technology platform as Smarter Balanced assessments. However, there will not be a paper-and-pencil version, a braille version, or support for text-to-speech during the CAA field test.
1. I learned that scratch paper is only allowed on performance tasks.
ReplyDelete2. Who is "all staff", here we plan on utilizing Social studies ELA, math, and SPED to administer, do we include all of them in our training, or will there be a site training like last time?
Thank you for the great question Tate. All staff refers to those teachers who will administer the Summative Assessments to students. In your case you would want the US History teachers, math teachers, and the Special Education teachers to attend. This will get them ready for the practice test activity. Site Coordinators will work with TOSAs to implement the training at the sites for the summative assessments. We will develop this together.
DeleteWeird, I posted a comment earlier this week, but it's not here. I had a question. Can the Interim Assessment be done over 2 days, rather than 2 periods in one day?
ReplyDeleteThat is a good question Brett, thank you, The Interim Assessments can be done over two days, they are resumable meaning that a student can log out and then get back into the test on the next day.
DeleteThe Interim assessments will take maybe half to 1 full regular class period to administer. They are about 14 to 19 questions.
I spoke with Roberto and he said no worries. He must feel comfortable.
ReplyDeleteHe lied to you.
Deletehey hey be nice ;)
ReplyDeletefirst question...Why is this 95 pages long! lol seriously though, my questions are as follow.
How many days/hours can we print out paper versions for students who need them.
What are the protocols for students who are out for medical reasons, i.e home hospital, ISP etc.
why is this document so long?? lol
Enjoy!
Paper versions are for extremely, extremely rare cases and have to have CDE approval prior to testing. An example of this would be a student with epilepsy.
DeleteISP students need to be contacted to tested on campus but can be tested on a modified schedule (ie completing the entire test component in one day). Home Hospital testing conditions need to be listed out in the IEP.
Don't worry about the length of the manual, you don't have to have it memorized until Mid March.
I've started the memorizing already :) Thank you for the responses. I will start to look into ISP students. Home hospital? same procedure?
Delete