common core state standards/smarter balanced assessment consortium
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Cutler Middle SchoolFebruary 4, 2014
Common Core State Standards/Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium
Familiarize parents with Common Core State Standards and Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium field assessment
Overview of the L.A./Literacy CCSS and classroom impact
Practice the Mathematics SBAC field assessment Questions and answers
Objectives:
5:30 pm Welcome and overview in media center 5:45pm one group to L.A./Literacy Presentation (room)
other group to take practice SBAC math field assessment (room 12)
6:35 pm Groups switch locations
Schedule
How the Common Core State Standards will help students achieve at high levels and help them learn what they need to know to get to graduation and beyond.
http://vimeo.com/51933492
Common Core State Standards
Building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction
Reading, writing and speaking grounded in evidence from text, both literary and informational
Regular practice with complex text and its academic language
CCSS Instructional Shifts for Language Arts/Literacy
Focus strongly on the topics emphasized in the standards
Coherence: Think across grade, and link topics* within grades
Rigor: In major topics* pursue: ◦Conceptual understanding;◦Procedural skill and fluency; and◦Applicationwith equal intensity
CCSS Instructional Shifts for Mathematics
Grade 6 – Ratios and proportional reasoning, early expressions and equations
Grade 7 – Ratios and proportional reasoning, arithmetic of rational numbers
Grade 8 – Linear algebra, linear functions
Mathematics: *Major topics that support expectations of Fluency and Conceptual Understanding
Computer Adaptive Testing Performance Assessment In-Class Activity
Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium
Selected-response items Technology-enhanced items Constructed-response items Performance tasks (with in class activity)
Item and Task Types
TEST TYPE CAT Perf. Task Only
Total In-Class Activity
Total
ELA/Literacy 1:30 2:00 3:30 :30 4:00
Mathematics 2:00 1:00 3:00 :30 3:30
Total 3:30 3:00 6:30 1:00 7:30
SBAC Testing Times
Times are estimates of test length for most students. Smarter Balanced assessments are designed as untimed tests; some students may need and should be afforded more time than shown in this table.
SBAC Testing Time
Additional information and the powerpoints used this evening can be found by going to the CMS website – Shortcuts – CCSS/SBAC for Parents.
http://www.groton.k12.ct.us/Domain/345
Additional Information