21st Century Balanced Assessment: What Does It Mean to My School? 

WVDE 2008 Fall Regional School Counselors Workshop

   

West Virginia Department of EducationOffice of Assessment and Accountability

Summative Assessment of Learning• Align to WV 21st century content

standards and objectives

• Provide individual and group achievement status at a point in time

• Inform students, educators, parents and the community of student, school and system performance

Policy 2340: WV MAP

• Policy defines Building Level Coordinator and Examiners.

 • Counselors are not required by Policy

2340 to serve as Building Level Coordinators or monitor assessments.

 • Counselor responsibilities are defined in

Policy 2315.

21st Century Content Standards and Objectives

• Reflect national content standards

• Incorporate NAEP, TIMSS and PISA frameworks

• Include 21st century learning skills and technology learning tools

• Align to ACT and SAT standards 

http://wvde.state.wv.us/policies  (Policy 2520.*)

21st Century Balanced Assessment System• Formative Assessments for

Learning: A process during learning 

• Classroom Assessments for Learning:  A proces during learning

 

• Benchmark Assessment of/for Learning:  An event during/after learning

 

• Summative Assessment of Learning:  An event after learning

Formative Assessments for Learning

• Conducted throughout teaching and learning

• Learner-centered, context specific

• Provides feedback to students and parents for monitoring progress

• Include multiple performance-based measures

Classroom Assessment for Learning

• Occurs during the instruction• Student Involvement critical• Acknowledges instructional

decisions of teachers and students

• Continuous descriptive feedback• Only difference between

formative and classroom assessments is student involvement. 

Benchmark Assessments of/for Learning

• Use multiple measures• Provide feedback on students’

relative progress toward instructional targets

• Provide instructional feedback to teachers

• Provide timely information that allows “in course” correction

Acuity funded by WVDE until 2014.

2008-2009 Testing Calendar

WESTEST 2 Field Test     September 22-October 3, 2008PSAT Pilot for 10th Grade Students*    October 15, 2008    October 18, 2008EXPLORE and PLAN    October 27-November 7, 2008 NAEP    January-March 2009 

*WVDE will fund pilot for 10th grade this year. Other grade level PSAT test takers will proceed as in previous years.

2008-2009 Testing Calendar

WESTEST 2 Online Writing:  Grades 3-11   March 2-27, 2009              Grades 6-8   March 23-April 10, 2009    Grades 9-11   March 30-May 1, 2009       Grades 3-5 WESTEST 2:  Grades 3-11    May 18-29, 2009 APTA    April 27-May 8, 2008 Tests on this slide are used to calculate AYP!!

WESTEST 2 Field Test

No individual student, school or county results. Test of the items, not student performance. West Virginia teachers created many items for the WESTEST 2 development.     

PSAT Pilot for 10th Grade Students• Measures academic achievement

in mathematics, critical reading and writing

• Identifies students with potential to succeed in AP courses

• Predicts success students will have in AP courses

     

*WVDE will fund Pilot for 10th grade this year. Other grade level PSAT test takers will proceed as in previous years.

EXPLOREGrade 8 • Measures academic achievement in

reading, mathematics, English and science

• Predicts how students will perform on PLAN and the ACT

• Compares student performance to the ACT College Readiness Standards

• Identifies needs and ways to improve skills

• Provides information on career based on interests

 

PLANGrade 10 • Measures academic achievement in

reading, mathematics, English and science

• Predicts how students will perform on  the ACT

• Compares student performance to the ACT College Readiness Standards

• Identifies needs and ways to improve skills

• Provides information on career based on interests

 

WESTEST 2 Online Writing• Field test conducted in spring 2008 in grades 3

- 11• Composed of passage and  prompt

o Narrativeo Descriptiveo Informativeo Persuasive

• Untimed• Scored

o Hand scored (field test only)o Artificial intelligence

 

NAEP• 2009 State Results reported for

o Reading 4, 8 and 12o Mathematics 4, 8 and 12o Science 4 and 8

• Measures what students know and can do in reading, mathematics and science

• Provides information to state and national policy makers about student achievement

 Sample items are available on • http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/it

mrls• http://sites.google.com/a/wvde.k12.wv.us/

naep-2009/ 

WESTEST 2

• Math and science tests will have two gridded response questions

• Reading/language arts passages will be paired or tripled by theme

• Social studies will have one Document-Based Question per grade level; each DBQ will consist of 4-9 questions based upon 3-7 documents

 

Acuity Item Bank

• Grades 3-11• Reading/language arts,

mathematics, science and social studies

• Classroom, school and district• Online delivery• CTB/McGraw-Hill and WV

developed items aligned to 21st century CSOs

Optional SupportTeach21• Teaching strategies• Unit plans• Assessment updates• Sample WESTEST 2 items

 http://wvde.state.wv.us/teach21/Writing Road Map 2• Unlimited writing practice grades 3-12

http://www.writingroadmap2.com Acuity• website under development• PowerPoint for Acuity training

http://wvde.state.wv.us/oaa/filecabinet.html#acuity   

Contact Information  (304) 558-2546WESTEST 2Beth Judy bjudy@access.k12.wv.us PSAT / PLAN / EXPLOREBeth Cipoletti dcipolet@access.k12.wv.us NAEPVickie Baker vbaker@access.k12.wv.us WESTEST 2 Online WritingSandy Foster slfoster@access.k12.wv.us AcuitySandy Foster slfoster@access.k12.wv.us