Using our
assessment system
to improve teaching
and learning
OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC
INSTRUCTION
NANCY THOMAS PRICE.
COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT
SYSTEM COORDINATOR
How do you teach the
standards?
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What do you teach?
How do you teach? (Instructional strategies)
When do you teach what? (Pacing)
What materials are used?
How long do you spend on each standard/block?
…what drives each of these decisions?
Premise #1
We must ask for the same evidence in
the classroom as is called for by the
standards and hence the assessment
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Use student data to
plan forward !
Make changes to
instruction & impact
learning while there is
still time to change the
outcome
Digital Library
Interim Assessments
Use summative data to
look back
ISAT (Summative
Assessment)
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Use of data for teaching
and learning
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Online reporting system
(ORS)
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ONLINE
REPORTING SYSTEM
Idaho.portal.airast.org
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Online Reporting System (ORS) User
Guide [DOCX]
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This user guide provides information
about all ORS’s features, including
instructions for viewing score reports, test
management resources, creating and
editing rosters, and searching for
students.
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Score Reporting Aggregate
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Score Reporting – Math Claims
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Score Reporting – ELA CLAIMS
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Claim Report by
Student for a
Classroom
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Score Reporting Individual Score Report (ISR)
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ORS Interim Assessment Blocks
Grade 5 Mathematics, proficiency % age
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What are Claims and Assessment Targets?
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Conceptual Framework
Claims
broad statements of the assessment
system‘s learning outcomes, each of which
requires evidence
Assessment Targets = Evidence
Targets articulate the types of
data/observations that will support
interpretations of competence towards
achievement of the claims.
Interpretations are spelled out in the Achievement
Level Descriptors.
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Conceptual Framework
We claim the following (Claim language)
is true if we see the following evidence
(Assessment Target language)
at a certain level of proficiency.
(Achievement Level Descriptors)
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The Test Reflects the Standards
Content Specifications create a
bridge between standards,
assessment, and instruction
Item/Task Specifications translate
the Content Specs into actual items
that will provide evidence of learning
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http://www.smarterbalanced.org/smarter-balanced-assessments/
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How can this
information be
used to guide
teaching and
learning?
State Department
of Education
Content and Item Specifications Documents can be
found via this link.
http://www.smarterbalanced.org/smarter-balancedassessments
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IMPLICATIONS
FOR
INSTRUCTION
Goal: Elicit in the
classroom, the same
evidence called for in
the standards
1. Use Core Standards documents to reread the standards
2. Use Content Specifications to dig deeper into specific Claims and
Targets
3. Use Item Specifications to get specific examples of tasks and questions
4. Use the Digital Library to find resources in target areas
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Implications for instruction
GOAL: Elicit in the classroom, the same evidence called for in the
standards
ICA Claim Performance Level Grade 3
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Example 1
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Item
Specs
document
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Item
Specs
document
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Item
Specs
document
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• Possible video link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEFI1wNTekE&lis
t=PLgIRGe0-q7SapZTf5G5sX4sxl92ByyhQt&index=2
The Learner is the most
important user of data…
• How do we go about teaching the standards?
• …assessing the standards (and the teaching) ?
• How do students know what they are supposed to
learn, how they show they have learned what’s
intended, or where they are on the progression to
mastery?
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Premise #1
We must ask for the same evidence in
the classroom as is called for by the
standards and hence the assessment
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Three Framing Questions
 Where is the learner going?
 Where is the learner right now?
 How will the learner get there?
Thompson & Wiliam, 2007