Bootcamp Session B:Common Formative Assessment

What They Are, How to Create Them,

and How to Use Them

Writer/Presenter Team

Deborah Sanchez

Credit Where Credit is Due:

Some of the following materials come from the former Leadership and Learning Institute which is now a part of

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. The presenter at the time was Connie Kamm, who is now the CEO of Kamm Solutions. If

you would like more information regarding this information or Kamm Solutions, check out the link below, or let us know.

https://kammsolutions.com/

The materials in this presentation, on the whole, are the best researched information available on Common

Assessment Development

MAP Item Formats

➢Multiple Choice (MC)

➢Multi-Select Response (MS)

➢Constructed-Response (CR)➢Short-Answer (SA)➢Technology Enhanced (TE)

R.J. Stiggins: Student-Centered AssessmentAbout Multiple Choice Items:

•Written clearly in a “sharply focused manner”•A question with only one best answer

**DESE says item distractors should be plausible solutions based on common errors or misconceptions.

•Write items consistent with grade-level reading expectations• Eliminate clues leading to the correct answer•Make response options brief

Multiple Choice Items

6.EEI.C.9

Multiple Choice Items

7.EEI.A.1

Multiple Choice Items

8.EEI.C.8

About Multi-Select Response Items:

• Written clearly in a “sharply focused manner”

• A question with multiple correct answers often scored as “all or nothing”

• Create items with more than four options

• Write items consistent with grade-level reading expectations

• Eliminate clues leading a the correct answer

• Make response options brief

Multi-Select Response Items (Non-Calculator)

6.NS.C.8 7.NS.A.2 8.EEI.A.1

Constructed Response Items:

➢Students generate a response to a question

➢Items have multiple solution paths

➢Students must create a response that demonstrates an integrated understanding

➢Items match level of rigor of “unwrapped” standard

➢Some form of scoring guide/rubric is required

Constructed Response Items

6.DSP.B.4

Constructed Response Items

7.NS.A.1 (non-calculator)

Constructed Response Items

8.EEI.B.6

6.GM.A.1: Find the area of polygons by composing or decomposing the shapes into rectangles or triangles and apply these techniques to solve real-world problems.

• Multiple Choice• Multi-Select Response• Constructed Response

Resources

• DESE Grade-Level Assessment Practice Forms

• DESE Item Specification Documents

• Mathematics Assessment Project

• Achieve the Core Coherence Map

• Achieve the Core Assessment Item Alignment Modules

• Illustrative Mathematics

• Cognitive Rigor Matrix (Karen Hess, 2009)

Quote from Larry Ainsworth, assessment expert:

“The one true purpose of educational assessment [common assessment] is to correctly determine student understanding

of the standards and then to use those results to inform, modify, adjust, enrich, and differentiate instruction to meet

the learning needs of all students.”