Updates from Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium
Updates from Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium Rachel Kachchaf, Ph.D.
Director of Supports for Students
Magda Chia, Ph.D.
Deputy Director of Systems Design
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
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Agenda
• Educator involved activities • Digital Library Spotlight series • Usability, Accessibility, and •
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Accommodations Guidelines: New Policies and Support Documents Update on long term accessibility effort: Illustrations Glossaries
Educator Involved Activities
Educator Involved Activities • • • • •
May – June 2015 – Over 200 educators convened to update math and ELA performance tasks
July, 2015 – 200 Senior Network of Educators (SNE) summer workshop for reviewing materials in the Digital Library
July, 2015 – 35 educators convened to write math scoring rubrics
August - September 2015 – 75 math educators kicked off and continued the next cycle of PT item development
October, 2015 – math and ELA educators, including accessibility experts, participated in range finding
Digital Library Spotlight
Digital Library Spotlight
• Supporting Students with Disabilities • 3 Part Webinar Series • Webinar followed by Forum • All webinars are recorded and available in •
the Digital Library Forums will remain open and active after dates specified
Digital Library Spotlight
• Maximizing Access to Instruction and
Testing for Students with Disabilities to Improve Achievement – Dr. Steve Elliott – Webinar: Sept. 29 – Forum : October 5-9
• Accessibility in classroom instruction and • •
large-scale testing Research-driven strategies teachers can use to improve access for all students Universal Design theory
Digital Library Spotlight
• Opportunity to Learn for All Students:
Enhancing Access to What Should be Taught and Will be Tested – Dr. Alexander Kurz – Webinar: Oct. 27 – Forum: November 9-13
• Opportunity to learn (OTL)
– How OTL data can be used to inform instruction
• Suggestions for evidence-based decisionmaking in the formative assessment process
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Digital Library Spotlight
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• •
Understanding and Accelerating Achievement Growth for Students with Disabilities – Dr. Ann Schulte – Webinar: January 12, 2016 – Forum: January 25-29, 2016
Achievement gaps and growth for students with disabilities Aspects of instruction that can be modified to accelerate achievement growth – time on instruction – opportunities for active student responding – explicit teaching of content and strategies – targeting students’ specific needs
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Usability, Accessibility, and Accommodations Guidelines New Policies
Process for Updating the Guidelines
• Staff requests feedback on UAAG via online survey – State/member lead and external groups – Completed once a year
• UAAG Committee and staff review results
– Seek advice from external experts, advisory committees, new research – Examine impact • Validity • Feasibility • Risk
• Additions/changes presented to Governing Members for a vote
UAAG Updates
• Non-embedded Accommodation:
– Read Aloud for ELA Reading Passages in Grades 3-5
• Embedded Accommodation:
– Text to Speech for ELA Reading Passages in Grades 3-5
• Non-embedded Designated Support: – Translated Test Directions for ELA • 19 languages plus dialects
• Non-embedded Designated Support:
– Read Aloud in Spanish for students receiving Stacked Translation support in Mathematics
• Non-embedded Designated Support:
– Separate Setting Recommendations for Use elaborated to include “use of devices requiring voicing (e.g., Whisper Phone)”
UAAG Updates
• Guidance for choosing to provide Read Aloud & TTS for reading passages in Grades 3-5
– Developed by Dr. Martha Thurlow and NCEO team – Questions for teachers & Questions for students
• Read Aloud Protocol in Spanish
– Spanish version of Read Aloud Guidelines – Mathematics signs, symbols, etc.
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Comparison of accessibility resources on the 2014-15 and the 2015-16 summative assessments
•
All documents available at:
http://www.smarterbalanced.org/parents-students/support-forunder-represented-students/
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Illustrations Glossaries Usability, Accessibility, and Accommodations Guidelines Long Term Effort
Illustrations Glossaries
• Proposed as Designated Support in • •
Mathematics Functionality would mirror translated glossaries Based on work by Guillermo SolanoFlores
Illustrations Glossaries
• Research Study began Fall 2015: – Develop specifications for illustrations • Systematize process for illustrations development using illustrator feedback • Interview ELLs from different linguistic backgrounds, students with disabilities
– Examine effectiveness of illustrations – Examine student interaction with illustration embedded into pop-up glossaries
THANK YOU Rachel Kachchaf, Ph. D. Director of Support for Students [email protected]
Director of Supports for Students
Magda Chia, Ph.D.
Deputy Director of Systems Design
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
1
Agenda
• Educator involved activities • Digital Library Spotlight series • Usability, Accessibility, and •
2
Accommodations Guidelines: New Policies and Support Documents Update on long term accessibility effort: Illustrations Glossaries
Educator Involved Activities
Educator Involved Activities • • • • •
May – June 2015 – Over 200 educators convened to update math and ELA performance tasks
July, 2015 – 200 Senior Network of Educators (SNE) summer workshop for reviewing materials in the Digital Library
July, 2015 – 35 educators convened to write math scoring rubrics
August - September 2015 – 75 math educators kicked off and continued the next cycle of PT item development
October, 2015 – math and ELA educators, including accessibility experts, participated in range finding
Digital Library Spotlight
Digital Library Spotlight
• Supporting Students with Disabilities • 3 Part Webinar Series • Webinar followed by Forum • All webinars are recorded and available in •
the Digital Library Forums will remain open and active after dates specified
Digital Library Spotlight
• Maximizing Access to Instruction and
Testing for Students with Disabilities to Improve Achievement – Dr. Steve Elliott – Webinar: Sept. 29 – Forum : October 5-9
• Accessibility in classroom instruction and • •
large-scale testing Research-driven strategies teachers can use to improve access for all students Universal Design theory
Digital Library Spotlight
• Opportunity to Learn for All Students:
Enhancing Access to What Should be Taught and Will be Tested – Dr. Alexander Kurz – Webinar: Oct. 27 – Forum: November 9-13
• Opportunity to learn (OTL)
– How OTL data can be used to inform instruction
• Suggestions for evidence-based decisionmaking in the formative assessment process
8
Digital Library Spotlight
•
• •
Understanding and Accelerating Achievement Growth for Students with Disabilities – Dr. Ann Schulte – Webinar: January 12, 2016 – Forum: January 25-29, 2016
Achievement gaps and growth for students with disabilities Aspects of instruction that can be modified to accelerate achievement growth – time on instruction – opportunities for active student responding – explicit teaching of content and strategies – targeting students’ specific needs
9
Usability, Accessibility, and Accommodations Guidelines New Policies
Process for Updating the Guidelines
• Staff requests feedback on UAAG via online survey – State/member lead and external groups – Completed once a year
• UAAG Committee and staff review results
– Seek advice from external experts, advisory committees, new research – Examine impact • Validity • Feasibility • Risk
• Additions/changes presented to Governing Members for a vote
UAAG Updates
• Non-embedded Accommodation:
– Read Aloud for ELA Reading Passages in Grades 3-5
• Embedded Accommodation:
– Text to Speech for ELA Reading Passages in Grades 3-5
• Non-embedded Designated Support: – Translated Test Directions for ELA • 19 languages plus dialects
• Non-embedded Designated Support:
– Read Aloud in Spanish for students receiving Stacked Translation support in Mathematics
• Non-embedded Designated Support:
– Separate Setting Recommendations for Use elaborated to include “use of devices requiring voicing (e.g., Whisper Phone)”
UAAG Updates
• Guidance for choosing to provide Read Aloud & TTS for reading passages in Grades 3-5
– Developed by Dr. Martha Thurlow and NCEO team – Questions for teachers & Questions for students
• Read Aloud Protocol in Spanish
– Spanish version of Read Aloud Guidelines – Mathematics signs, symbols, etc.
•
Comparison of accessibility resources on the 2014-15 and the 2015-16 summative assessments
•
All documents available at:
http://www.smarterbalanced.org/parents-students/support-forunder-represented-students/
15
16
Illustrations Glossaries Usability, Accessibility, and Accommodations Guidelines Long Term Effort
Illustrations Glossaries
• Proposed as Designated Support in • •
Mathematics Functionality would mirror translated glossaries Based on work by Guillermo SolanoFlores
Illustrations Glossaries
• Research Study began Fall 2015: – Develop specifications for illustrations • Systematize process for illustrations development using illustrator feedback • Interview ELLs from different linguistic backgrounds, students with disabilities
– Examine effectiveness of illustrations – Examine student interaction with illustration embedded into pop-up glossaries
THANK YOU Rachel Kachchaf, Ph. D. Director of Support for Students [email protected]
