Smarter Balanced Q&A with Bill Moore of SBCTC
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Revised Recommendations: System Agreement for the Use of Smarter Balanced 11 th Grade Assessment in Washington Higher Education Placement Process April 2014
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Bill Moore, Director of the Core to College Alignment & Transition Math Project at the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, hosted a Smarter Balanced Q&A on Tuesday, May 6th, 2014. Session Highlights include an OVERVIEW of the draft system agreement regarding the use of this as an early college readiness/placement indicator; BACKGROUND and rationale for the recommendations, and an OPPORTUNITY for participant questions about the process for endorsing and implementing this agreement. View the Blackboard Collaborate Recording at http://bit.ly/1oPi6mc
Transcript of Smarter Balanced Q&A with Bill Moore of SBCTC
Revised Recommendations:System Agreement for the
Use of Smarter Balanced 11th Grade Assessment in
Washington Higher Education Placement Process
April 2014
Major Shifts in the Common Core State Standards:
“Fewer, Higher, Clearer, Deeper”
MATH• Focus strongly where the
standards focus
• Coherence: Think across grades and link to major topics within grades
• Rigor: Require conceptual understanding, fluency, and application
www.corestandards.org
ELA• Building content knowledge
through content-rich nonfiction
• Reading, writing, and speaking grounded in evidence from text, both literary and informational
• Regular practice with complex text and its academic language
Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium
• 26 states & territories (22 governing, 3 advisory, 1 affiliate)
• K-12 & Higher Education Leads in each state
Describe Explain
Interpret
Level One(Recall)
Level Three(Strategic Thinking)
(Extended Thinking)
Level Two(Skill/
Concept)
Design
Synthesize
Connect
Apply Concepts
Critique
Analyze
Create
Prove
Arrange
Calculate
Draw
Repeat Tabulate
Recognize
Memorize
Identify
Who, What, When, Where, Why
List
Name
Use
Illustrate
Measure
Define
RecallMatch
Graph
Classify
Cause/Effect
Estimate
Compare
Relate
Infer
Categorize
Organize
Interpret
Predict
Modify
Summarize
ShowConstruct
Develop a Logical ArgumentAssessRevise
Apprise
Hypothesize
InvestigateCritique
Compare
Formulate Draw ConclusionsExplain
Differentiate
Use Concepts to SolveNon-Routine Problems
Level Four
Source: Webb, Norman L. and others, “Web Alignment Tool” 24 July 2005. Wisconsin Center of Educational Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2 Feb 2006 4
Assessing the Common Core
Smarter Balanced assessments move beyond basic skills and recall to assess critical thinking and problem solving
Why is Higher Education Involved?
Common Core State Standards anchored in expectations for college readiness
Opportunity to improve college readiness, reduce remediation, and boost completion
Making K-16 “alignment” meaningful
adapted from Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium
Case for Supporting Common Core State Standards
• “Fewer, higher, clearer” expectations
• Framework for meaningful K-16 “alignment”
• Opportunity to address equity issues in college preparation and readiness
Case for Incorporating Smarter Balanced Assessment into Placement Process
• Improvement over existing tools (cost, item variety and range, …)
• Transparency and ownership
• Opportunity to create incentive for more students to get “college-ready” in high school
Core to College System Policy Timetable
System policy work group (Fall 2013)
Cross-sector summit gathering (Fall 2014)
Confirm SB participation commitment (before January 2015)
Develop specific
proposal for SB use in higher
education
Review and endorse proposal
Showcase local school/
college partnerships
System group and institutional review (Winter 2014--Spring 2014)
SMARTER BALANCED SCORE
POTENTIAL IMPLICATIONS FOR 12TH GRADE
POSTSECONDARY PLACEMENT OPTIONS BASED ON SCORE
District option: Senior year college readiness/transition
course (or some other intensive academic support), then
opportunity for re-testing
Taking the statewide math senior year college
readiness/transition course
Expected and advised to earn college credits
An entry college-level terminal math course not on the calculus pathway
An entry-level calculus pathway math course, contingent on a B or better in a calculus pathway class as a senior
LEVEL 4 (college-ready)
Any entry college-level math course through pre-calculus I
LEVEL 1
LEVEL 3 (college-ready)
LEVEL 2An entry college-level terminal math course not on the calculus pathway, contingent on a B or better in the statewide math college
readiness/transition course
Encouraged to consider appropriate advanced college credit courses
Taking a calculus pathway class
SMARTER BALANCED RECOMMENDATIONS: MATH
Additional placement information, determined by local institutional processes
(transcript, high school GPA, additional testing, etc.), needed for all entry-level
courses
SMARTER BALANCED SCORE
POTENTIAL IMPLICATIONS FOR 12TH GRADE
POSTSECONDARY PLACEMENT OPTIONS BASED ON SCORE
District option: Senior year college readiness/transition
course (or some other intensive academic support), then
opportunity for re-testing
Taking a statewide English senior year college
readiness/transition course
An entry college-level English course (including but not limited to English Composition or its equivalent)
LEVEL 4 (college-ready)
An entry college-level English course (including but not limited to English
Composition or its equivalent)
LEVEL 1
LEVEL 3 (college-ready)
LEVEL 2
An entry college-level English course (including but not limited to English
Composition or its equivalent), contingent on a B or better in a statewide English senior
year college readiness/transition course
Encouraged to consider opportunities for earning
college credit
Additional placement information, determined by local institutional processes
(transcript, high school GPA, additional testing, etc.), needed for all entry-level
courses
SMARTER BALANCED RECOMMENDATIONS: ENGLISH
Expected and advised to earn college credits
Key Points about the Agreement
What It Does• Supports
implementation of Common Core
• Provides motivation for some students to improve readiness for college
• Complements system efforts toward multiple, alternative placement measures
What It Doesn’t Do
• Replace or address directly issues with current placement tests
• Apply to admissions decisions for 4-year programs
• Extend beyond Class of 2018 without review process based on performance data
Class of 2016
Take SB spring 2015
Enter higher
education fall 2016
Class of 2017
Take SB spring 2016
Enter higher
education fall 2017
Class of 2018
Take SB spring 2017
Enter higher
education fall 2018
Agreement Timeframe
Review agreement in winter 2018 and consider revision/renewal for class of 2019
