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Preparing Students for College and Careers with Interim

Assessments

Tom Moellering, Sr. Product Manager

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Why is college and career Readiness important?

Large percentage of students never complete high school– 2012 U.S. high school graduation rate was 80%– Each year, 1M kids in the U.S. fail to graduate from high school in time

Students who drop out:– Earn $1M less over their lifetime– 3x more likely to be unemployed– 2x more likely to live in poverty– More likely to have poor health– More likely to be on public assistance– More likely to be single parents

*National Center of Educational Statistics

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Many dropouts can be prevented School Performance and Engagement are significant

risk factors for school dropout According to a 2006 study by the Gates Foundation:

– 45% said thee started high school poorly prepared by their earlier schooling

– 47% of dropouts said classes were not interesting– 70% were not motivated or inspired to work hard– Thirty-five percent said that “failing in school” was a major

factor for dropping out


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Each dropout costs taxpayers $292K.

Dropouts have a negative fiscal contribution of $5K on society. Conversely, adults with a Bachelor’s Degrees contribute nearly $800K to economy.

Dropouts cost everyone


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“Not including dropouts, which would make these numbers even worse, 39% 12th-graders have the math skills needed for entry-level college course work, and 38% have the necessary reading skills.”

Many who go to college are unprepared


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Lack of college preparedness is well documented…


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When does college preparation begin?


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Most agree it starts before high school…


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Some say it starts in elementary school…


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Others say it starts in kindergarten, or earlier…


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Introducing…

The Acuity College and Career Readiness Solution


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Acuity Readiness Overview An interim assessment solution for students in grades 3-8, in Math

and ELA, that enables educators to:– Use valid and reliable assessment data to drive instructional focus– Measure student growth and achievement in relation to the CCSS– Prepare for the unique requirements of the PARCC summative assessment– Know if student’s have mastered reporting categories and claims– Understand if students are on track for being college and career ready

Part of a comprehensive, common core emergent, online, K-12 interim assessment solution


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Acuity Readiness Details Guided by the same leadership, experience and processes used for

creating PARCC assessment items Includes all-new, field-tested, assessment items and tasks written to

the CCSS (Common Core State Standards) and PARCC item specifications

Blueprints that reflect the PARCC summative exam:– Content standards, indicators and claims– Emphasis and balance– Item types– Depth of Knowledge

Acuity Readiness Overview Readiness assessments include:

– Math and ELA– Grades 3-8– 3 administrations per year– 2 sessions within each administration, including

• 1 session paper or fixed form online (50 minutes)• 1 session paper pencil (50 minutes)

– Multiple-choice, technology-enhanced, and evidence-based selected response on online forms

– Constructed-response and performance tasks on paper forms– Detailed reporting aligned to the CCSS

*Adaptive delivery scheduled for December 2014


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Acuity Readiness Item Types Early fall 2014

– Multiple-choice

– Constructed-response

– Multiple correct response

Mid fall 2014– Evidence-based selected-response

– Equation and expression entry

– Numeric entry

– Matching

– Select text

– Performance task

Winter 2014– Drag and drop

– Graphing lines

– Graphing points

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Reporting Reports, available at the session level, and aggregate across 2 sessions,

include:– Types:

• Roster

• Assessment

• Item Analysis

• Matrix

• Cohort

• Growth

• Report batching

• Current and prior year

• Data extracts

• Dashboards via Engrade* Future Year

– Deeper student insight:

• CCSS alignments

• Vertical scale across 3-8

• Growth measures*

• Predictions to PARCC summative

exam*

• Standards-level mastery indicators*

• On track for college and career

readiness indicator*


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Sample Acuity College and Career Readiness Class Assessment Report.

Predictions, growth measures, mastery indicators, and on-track for college and career indicator to be added in future year.


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Sample Acuity College and Career Readiness Class Item Analysis Report.

Link from reports into items to use assessments for learning.


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Readiness solution complements existing Acuity CCSS solution

Diagnostic assessments in K-12 Item banks across K-12 Item authoring capabilities Custom test building Performance tasks in grades 2-12 Online, technology-enhanced, instructional resources

written to the CCSS


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Do your interim assessments…

1. Reflect the blueprint of the PARCC summative exam?

2. Include the same technology-enhanced item types used on the PARCC summative exam?

3. Include the same open-ended item types used on the PARCC summative exam?

4. Reflect the item specifications of PARCC ?

5. Reflect the Depth of Knowledge of items used by PARCC ?

6. Provide educators with reliable measures of what students know and are able to do in relation to the CCSS?

7. Fully prepare your educators and students for PARCC summative exams?


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Appendix


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Blueprints

Acuity CCR for PARCCELA Grades 3-5


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Acuity CCR for PARCCELA Grades 6-8


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Acuity CCR for PARCC: Math Grades 3-5


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Acuity CCR for PARCC: Math Grades 6-8


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Sample Items

ELA/LITERACYSample Items

ELA: Multiple Correct Response

Select the two sentences from the story that show how the narrator feels about the setting.

An alley ran along the back of our house. Kids prowled about seeking adventures. The alley was a place where adventures could be found. It was a fine place . . . “It is a horrible place!” There was nothing to see there.

ELA: Select Text

Read the excerpt from the story. Then click on two sentences that show how the narrator feels about the setting.

Pink noses twitched. Gray forms hurried. Grasshoppers hoped. Bees bumbled. Butterflies inspected the flowers. Kids prowled about seeking adventures. The alley was a place where adventures could be found.

Herman, our family cat—who we tried to keep inside—kept sneaking out into the alley.

It was a fine place . . .

“It is a horrible place!”

ELA: Multiple Response with Evidence

What does the word “swayed” mean in paragraph 1?

A remained still

B slowly began to die

C grew taller than expected

D gently moved back and forth

Part B

What detail in paragraph 1 best supports the answer to Part A?

A “…along the back of our house…”

B “…weren’t found anywhere else…”

C “The grass was high…”

D “…even with only the tiniest of breezes.”

ELA: Matching Table

Reading Short Text

MATHEMATICSSample Items

Math: Multiple Selection

Math: Equation/Expression Entry

Math: Graphing

Math: Matching Table

Math: Drag and Drop

Math: Fill-in Table


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Math: Multiple Choice


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Math: Constructed response

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