mi-access what’s new this year?
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MI-Access What’s New This Year?. Presenter. Dan Evans Assessment Administration and Reporting Office of Educational Assessment & Accountability. Assessment Windows. Fall 2010 Grades 3-8 October 11 - November 19, 2010. Spring 2011 Grade 11 February 14 – March 25, 2011. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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MI-AccessWhat’s New This
Year?
MI-AccessWhat’s New This
Year?
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PresenterPresenter
Dan Evans Assessment Administration
and Reporting
Office of Educational Assessment & Accountability
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Assessment Windows
Fall 2010 Grades 3-8
October 11 - November 19, 2010
Spring 2011 Grade 11
February 14 – March 25, 2011
Spring 2011 Grade 11
February 14 – March 25, 2011
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What’s New This Year?Student Demographic entry to MSDS Single source data gathering for secure site Data updates during Tested Roster restricted to
MSDS Confirm student data correct in MSDS Simplify entry process and minimize errors
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What’s New This Year?
No Released Items in future Items in tests will not be released to the public Helps increase the volume of items currently in
our bank Save money by extending the life of current
items Reduce future development costs
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What’s New This Year?Class/Group ID Sheets Replaces the District and Teacher ID sheet Optional form designed to allow districts and schools to
receive reports by class or group District assigns the codes One form for each teacher Instructions for completion in Manual
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Class/Group ID Sheet
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What’s New This Year?School Header Sheets Replaces School ID sheets Document placed on top of all student answer
documents Requires District and School codes Requires total number of returning documents
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School Header Sheet
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What’s New This Year?
School Return Envelope– Replaces the former Teacher Envelope– White envelope with label– Designed to return answer documents with the
School Header sheet on top– Should be returned unsealed
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What’s New This Year?What’s New This Year?
Test Administrator Manual • Replaces the former “Coordinator and
Assessment Administrator Manual”
Test Administrator Manual • Replaces the former “Coordinator and
Assessment Administrator Manual”
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Test Administrator
Manual
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What’s New This Year?Missing UIC will invalidate scores
• Unique Identification Code is assigned to each student
• UIC is printed on the student barcode label
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What’s New This Year?
Materials Return Kit
– Instruction sheet
– UPS Return Label
– Material Return Label (Tan)
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What’s New This Year?
New “State Model” IEP form
• OSE-EIS released State Model IEP Form August 23, 2010
• Copy available on MI-Access Web page as a link to the form
• Includes standards-based goals
• Includes assessment choice fro MEAP-Access when available
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What’s New This Year?Braille orders placed at state level only– Secure site will not be available to order Braille
assessment material– Orders will be placed only by calling 877-560-
8378 option 4 – Orders require a student name to complete order
process– Help to reduce cost and waste of unnecessary
orders
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What’s New This Year?MEAP-Access Eligibility Bubble– Bubble on Answer Documents – FI only– Fill in if student would have taken the MEAP-
Access assessment if it was available– Information provides framework for data analysis
and future development– MEAP-Access Eligibility Criteria located at
www.mi.gov/meap-access
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What’s New This Year?
Field testing of item formats in some forms
– Field tests items included in some forms
– Designed to fulfill item bank needs
– Inserted to help future test development
– Includes some alternate formats and structured items
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What’s New This Year?Item Descriptor Booklet posted for FI
– Booklets found at MI-Access Web page www.mi.gov/mi-access
– Designed to provide analysis on student performance on assessment items
Contact InformationContact Information
• Call 1-877-560-8378 option 4
• Call 1-877-560-8378 option 4
Thank You!Thank You!