Network Teams Institute
May 15-16, 2013
Math Assessment Session
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Shifts in Assessments
Six Shifts in Mathematics Assessments
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Let’s Paginate!
• Skip all the blue sheets and the table of
contents
• Start with “About the Regents Examination…”
• Carefully number all other pages 1-48
• This will take you approximately 2 minutes, 19
seconds
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Our Panel
• Peter Swerdzewski: Fellow for Assessment
• Zach Warner
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Comparative Items
• Turn to pages 29 and 35; you’ll find two Sets of
Items.
• Complete at least 5 items on each set. Be sure that
they are corresponding items.
• Check your thinking against the answer keys and
rationales
• Determine the three key differences between the two
sets.
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Regents Examination in Algebra I
(Common Core)
Reading Time
• About the Regents Examination in Algebra 1
(Common Core)
Page 2
• Test Blueprint: Regents Examination in
Algebra I (Common Core)
Page 4
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Discuss “About” & Blueprint
• What’s news?
• What’s the same?
• What questions do you have?
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Discuss “About” & Blueprint
• What’s news?
• What’s the same?
• What questions do you have?
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Standards Clarifications
(pages 5 & 6)
• Thoughts and Reactions to this
document?
• Instructional Implications of
this document?
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Question Formats & Types
(Pages 7 & 8)
• Is there any news on page 7?
• What is the instructional impact of
page 8?
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Sample 7th Grade Items
(Pages 44-48)
• Complete items 1,2,4,10 yourself.
• Check your thinking against the rationale.
• Discuss your observations about the 3 items including their
similarities and differences.
• Examine the standards at play. What is accomplished by
measuring 7RP3 in multiple ways?
7.RP.A.3: Use proportional
relationships to solve multistep
ratio and percent problems.
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Multiple Representations
(Pages 13-16)
• How does document and its
implications reflect the ways you have
taught in the past?
• How does the document and its
implications reveal a coming change in
your practice?
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Guidelines and Criteria for Item Writing
(Pgs 9-12, 17-23)
• What’s news?
• Name 3 implications for instruction.
• Name 3 implications for teacher created
assessment and/ or common
assessments.
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Tools & Reference Sheet
(pages 24-27)
• What action steps or must-do’s
come to mind when reviewing
these pages?
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Professional Development
• What, of these slides and
conversations would you want
to duplicate for PD in your
context?
• Why?
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