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KLFA
Brad Neuenswander
Deputy Commissioner, KSDE
Slide2Kansas Assessments
What are the plans now that Kansas is not part of the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium?
Slide3Kansas Assessments
What are the plans now that Kansas is not part of the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium?
Just a few changes.
Slide4Assessment Timeline
Spring 2014
Math & ELA; Transitional Assessment, NO PILOT OF SBAC
Dynamic Learning Map (DLM)
Science; Current State Assessment
History/Government; Pilot new items
Spring 2015
Math & ELA; Newly Developed CETE Assessment, and DLM
Science; Pilot new items and remove old items
History Government; Pilot new items
Slide5Math and English Language Arts
Transition assessment in Spring 2014 is the same as we have always planned
Spring of 2015, when we would have had SBAC for the first time, we will have an enhanced Kansas assessment.
By Spring of 2016, we will be very close to where we would have been with SBAC with difference due to choices made in Kansas.
Slide6Spring 2014
Transition Assessment
Delivered on KITE
Aligned with Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for math, reading, and writing conventions
Follows similar blueprint to SBAC
Machine-
scorable
items only
No performance task
No writing prompt
No listening items
Slide7New Development in 2014–2015
The transitional test will serve as the backbone for the new Kansas College and Career Ready Assessment
Enhancements
Listening section
Writing prompt
Math performance tasks
Slide8Spring 2015
The core machine-
scorable
part of the test will be parallel to what was administered in 2014, but we will refresh the item pool.
We will field test the enhancements.
Accountability for 2015 will be based on the core portion of the test.
Schools and districts will receive feedback on the field-test portions to help gauge student readiness on the full set of standards.
Slide9Summer 2015
After analyzing the field-test items, we will create the best form possible that includes all features of our future assessment.
We will set new achievement standards (cut scores and performance level descriptors) based on that form.
Using those new cut scores, we will set new AMOs and communicate the new targets to schools and districts.
Slide10Spring 2016
Now we have a fully enhanced test that covers all of the Kansas College and Career Ready Standards.
We should also have sufficient numbers of items to make the test adaptive this year as well.
Slide11Adaptivity
We are considering stage
adaptivity
rather than item
adaptivity
that SBAC uses.
Benefits
More reliable estimates
Targets assessment to student level
Requires fewer items than item-level
Slide12College
and Career Ready means an individual has the
academic
preparation,
cognitive
preparation,
technical
skills, and
employability
skills to be successful in postsecondary education, in the attainment of an industry recognized certification or in the workforce, without the need for remediation.
Slide13Slide14A subset of the KCCRAAC
met again August 28 to draft a plan based on conversations from the August 6 meeting . The group identified four possible paths forward:
1. Smarter
Balanced Assessment Consortium for 3-8 and H.S.
(CETE will score, administer, and report)
2
. Assessment Vendor, e.g. ACT for 3-8 and H.S.
3. Hybrid Assessment Model (i.e., the state will provide a default assessment and allow districts if they so choose to use another USED approved assessment funded by the district) 4. CETE-developed Assessment for 3-8 and H.S
Slide15A final meeting was held on September 3
rd
during which #3 was chosen as a path to pursue:
1. Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium for 3-8 and H.S. 2. Assessment Vendor, e.g. ACT for 3-8 and H.S.
3. Hybrid Assessment Model (i.e., the state will provide a default assessment and allow districts if they so choose to use another USED approved assessment funded by the district)
4. CETE-developed Assessment for 3-8 and H.S.
Slide16Slide17Are You College & Career Ready?
Slide18Moving from Proficient to College & Career Ready
Proficient
What % of Kansas Students meet grade level proficiency, and ready to move to the next grade level?
Math 2012 = 85%
Reading 2012 = 87%
College & Career Ready
What % of Kansas Students perform at a CCR level on the new assessments?
65% ???
We don’t know, but we need to be prepared to communicate that we have raised the bar.
Slide19Old vs. New Performance
Old State Assessment
2002-2013
Exemplary
Exceeds
Meets
Approaching
Warning
New State Assessment
2014-2015
4
3
2
1
Slide202002-2013 Performance
A New Start
2014-2015 and Beyond
Slide21ESEA Waiver Update
All States must re-submit their waiver to extend for one more year (2015-16) or until ESEA is reauthorized.
Kansas will re-submit in Feb.-March 2014.
We will make any changes or amendments to our waiver during this process.
Move the use of student growth to inform personnel decisions until 2017-18
Assessment Changes
Recalculating AMO’s
Slide22Thanks for Caring about KIDS!!!!
Brad
Neuenswander
bradn@ksde.org
785-296-2303