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CAIS Northern Regional Meeting 2015 3/8/15

Sima Misra & MaryBeth Ventura 1

Our School’s Move from Standardized Tests to

Online Formative Assessments

Sima Misra & MaryBeth Ventura

[email protected] [email protected]

The Berkeley School Preschool-8th grade

275 Students Berkeley

Acknowledgments ! Northwest Evaluation Association

! Zachary Roberts, Stephen Cahill, Mitch Bostian

! Pam McComas & Megan Holmstrom

! Erica Herro

! Matt Huxley

! The Berkeley School faculty

Agenda

!  Intro

!  Why we moved from ERB CTP-4 to MAP

!  What is MAP?

!  Family Education

!  Teacher Professional Development

!  i-Ready

Parking Lot

Intros

! K-2, 3-5, MS, HS

! Teacher, Administrator, Other



Dot Voting Testing currently at your school

Rank Strongly Disagree to Strongly Agree

Currently, the standardized assessment that my school

uses…


uses…

!  provides parenting adults with valuable information about students and their learning.

!  is a platforms for constructive conversations with families.

!  is a positive experience for most of our students.


uses…

!  provides teachers with valuable information about students and their learning

!  provides the school with valuable information about its curriculum & instruction

!  provides information that is accessible, timely, and easy to interpret

ERB CTP-4 Tests !  Educational Records Bureau (ERB)

!  Comprehensive Testing Program (CTP) test

!  Paper & Pencil or Online

!  National, Suburban & Independent school norms

!  Timed above 3rd grade

!  Online is adaptive within 3rd-6th or MS

!  Once a year

!  Constructed response

ERB CTP-4 Tests !  Reading Comprehension

!  Writing Mechanics

!  Writing Concepts & Skills

!  Verbal Reasoning

!  Vocabulary

!  Quantitative Reasoning

!  Mathematics 1 & 2

!  Science test available



Our Journey from the ERB CTP-4 to MAP

Why do we give the ERBs? Does administering ERBs fit with our principles

as a school?

What is MAP? A computer adaptive interim assessment

Measures of Academic Progress (MAP)

!  Northwest Education Association (NWEA)

!  36 year old nonprofit

!  Public, parochial, independent schools

!  50 states, 124 countries

!  3 million students in 2011-12

!  Norm every 3 years

!  3rd-12th grade students

Measures of Academic Progress (MAP)

! Reading

! Language Usage

! Mathematics (Common Core State Standards)

! Science test available

Subject Areas and Strands Elementary

Reading Language Usage Mathematics Literature Writing: Plan,

Organize, Develop, Revise, Research

Operations and Algebraic Thinking

Informational Text Understand, Edit for Grammar, Usage

Number & Operations

Vocabulary Acquisition & Use

Understand, Edit Mechanics

Geometry

Measurement & Data

Subject Areas and Strands Middle School





The Real and Complex Number System



Geometry

Statistics and Probability



Pros of MAP !  Fully adaptive on computer--“just right”

questions from 2nd-12th

!  No time limit; avg. is 35-40 minutes per test

! Measures growth 3 times a year

!  Feedback next day

!  Straight-forward questions

!  Can retest easily

Equity in Testing

!  Every student is challenged

!  Stronger students keep getting harder questions

!  Students who need more support get easier questions

Sample Test

Measuring growth

RIT Scale measures growth Status vs. Growth Status Tests

!  Standardized tests

!  Summative assessment

!  What have I mastered?

!  How good am I compared to others?

!  2400 on the SAT

Growth Assessments !  MAP assessment

!  Formative assessment

!  How much have I learned?

!  What am I ready to learn?

!  200 in 4th, 210 in 5th, etc.



Cons of MAP !  No time limit

!  Requires proctoring

!  Error measurement

! Quantity of data

!  Pay extra for independent school norms

!  No constructed response

!  No verbal or quantitative reasoning

Questions?

Pair Share by Role How do you communicate test results to your

school’s parenting adults? What issues come up?

Timer

Family Education

Logistics !  Parenting adults must attend 45 minute Family

Ed event to receive scores the first time.

! We offer Family Ed every time we test.

! We reformat results to be easily interpreted.

! We don’t share scores with students.

Interpreting results



Interpreting results

Peer and self assessment

Rubrics

Tests and quizzes

Fountas & Pinnell/DRA

Standardized tests

Observation

Portfolios

Conferring

Assessment happens on a spectrum

Formative !---------------" Summative

MAP

Exhibitions and presentations

Measuring growth Each child is unique

Growth can be uneven A “Snapshot” in time



To Share or not to Share ! Emphasize growth

! Highlight strength & challenge areas

! Snapshot

! One data point

Lexile Score

www.lexile.com

The Lexile Framework for Reading

“Just right” books

Pair Share by Role

Does your school have ways to help teachers use test results?

What issues come up?

Timer

Professional Development !  Technical training for IT & database staff

!  Teacher/proctor training to administer

!  Teacher training to interpret first set of test results

Using MAP to inform instruction: lesson planning

Using MAP to inform instruction: differentiation

Strategy

Product

Content



Using MAP to inform instruction: groupings for instruction

Subject Areas and Strands Elementary





Number & Operations



Geometry

Measurement & Data

Instructional Ranges

Example reports



i-Ready

i-Ready !  Curriculum Associates

!  40 year old business

!  K-12th grade online diagnostic

!  K-8th grade online instruction



i-Ready

!  Reading

! Mathematics

(Common Core State Standards)

Pros of i-Ready !  Adaptive, “just right” questions

!  No time limit; 30-60 minutes per test

!  No proctoring necessary

! Measures growth—formative assessment

!  Immediate feedback

!  Straight-forward multiple choice questions

!  Personalized online instruction

Cons of i-Ready

!  No time limit

!  Error measurement

! Quantity of data

!  No constructed response

!  No Language Usage

Questions? Dot Voting

Potential for MAP testing Rank Strongly Disagree to Strongly Agree



A computer adaptive interim assessment…


!  provides parenting adults with valuable information about students and their learning.

!  is a platforms for constructive conversations with families.

!  is a positive experience for most of our students.


!  provides teachers with valuable information about students and their learning

!  provides the school with valuable information about its curriculum & instruction

!  Provides information that is accessible, timely, and easy to interpret

Questions?

Sima Misra [email protected]

MaryBeth Ventura [email protected]

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