What Will the New Test

Be Like?April Yantis

2012 Smarter Balanced Item Writer

7th Grade ELA & LiteracyOlympic Middle School, Shelton, WA

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CCSStandards for ELA and Literacy Reading – 10 standards (+foundational skills K-3) Writing – 10 standards Speaking/Listening – 6 standards Language – 6 standards Technology – integrated into standardsOur Assessment = Smarter

BalancedSR: 1pt CR: 2pts TE: both PT: 6?

Selected Response Constructed Response Technology Enhanced Performance Tasks

Student Evidence for ELA/Lit. Standards Sorted into 4 Groups

Claim 1 – Students can read closely and analytically to comprehend a range of increasingly complex literary and informational texts.

Claim 2 – Students can produce effective writing for a range of purposes and audiences.

Claim 3 – Students can employ effective speaking and listening skills for a range of purposes and audiences.

Claim 4 – Students can engage in research/inquiry to investigate topics, and to analyze, integrate, and present information.

Claim 1 …Read closely…analytically...

Targets: Key Details Central Ideas Word Meanings Reasoning & Evidence Analysis Within or Across Texts Text Structures & Features Language Use

Claim 2 …Produce effective writing... Write/Revise Brief Texts (Narrative,

Informational, Argumentation) Compose Full Texts (Argumentation) Language & Vocabulary Use Edit/Clarify

Claim 3…Effective speaking…listening...

Listen/Interpret:Analyze, interpret, and use

information delivered orally or visually

Claim 4 …Research to analyze, integrate, present information...

Targets: Analyze/Integrate Information Evaluate Information/Sources Use Evidence

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Sample: Support a key detail

Item’s Claim, Target, CCSS, Rubric

Rubric

Sample: Add a Beginning, Transition, or Ending

Rubrics

TE Sample: Technology Enhanced/Enabled

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Sample: SupportYourArgument

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PTPerformance Tasks

PTText, charts, videos: Stimuli for Performance Tasks

Olympic M.S. Assessments: Used MSP Assessment Format

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Remember this sample item?Add a Beginning, Transition, or Ending

Practice:Assessment Item for your Class Write a BRIEF piece (4-8 sentences)

Possibility: smoothly move between two scenes, like swimming followed by a picnic

Assessment Items for your Class

Write a BRIEF piece, smoothly moving between two scenes (4-8 sentences)

Now ONLY deconstruct a couple sentences Make them very general or vague Cut their elaboration Use kidspeak Create incorrect conventions or texting shortcuts Cut the smooth transition to a new scene Skip the lead-in or ending – abruptly start or stop

Assessment Items for your Class Tell your elbow partner what will need to be

changed (missing elaboration, conclusion, etc.)

Read your item.

Let your partner identify the incorrect area and bring it up to standard.

What About Informational Text?Students: Find key details to support a central idea Write a brief summary (key details + central

idea) Identify which parts are an author’s opinion Support inferences with details from text Identify weak areas of an argument, and

rewrite them Identify portions of a text that don’t support

an argument

Sample Test Items – Generalities Summary lacking a key detail The relationship between plot and setting Find evidence that this is the author’s opinion Differentiate between shades of meaning in text Summary: out of order Create a logical sense of order and wholeness

through transitions: show sentence to sentence progression

Find a sentence that doesn’t support an argument Find a sentence that disrupts the flow Show how a character changes over course of story Insert dialogue How does dialogue move this story forward

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