Assessment
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New!! M-Step (Michigan Student Test of Education Progress)
MDE M-Step web page
Spring 2015 Michigan Statewide Assessment Transition
Michigan 2014-15 Assessment Transition Plan
Division of Assessment and Accountability - web page
Plans for Statewide Assessment in 2016 and Beyond
State Awards Future College Assessment to College Board's SAT for Michigan Students
January 7, 2015 Announcement
Michigan statewide assessment plans for Grades 3-8 to be announced later in January 2015.
Common Core Assessment Options -- A Report on Options for Assessments Aligned with the Common Core State Standards (Submitted to the Michigan Legislature Dec. 1, 2013)
Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium
News from SBAC
SmarterApp.org goes live--SmarterApp.org, the home of the open-source community for specifications, code, and other technology information related to Smarter Balanced assessments, is now live. To learn more about SmarterApp.org and the open-source community, visit http://www.smarterapp.org/about.htm.
Resources and Practices Comparison Crosswalk posted--The Smarter Balanced Resources and Practices Comparison Crosswalk has been uploaded to SmarterBalanced.org and can be accessed here: http://www.smarterbalanced.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Smarter-Balanced-Resources-and-Practices-Comparison-Crosswalk1.pdf.
A Summary of Core Components - Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium
Assessment Consortia Guide - Coming Together to Raise Student Achievement
August 2013 Consortia Update
Seeing the Future: How the Common Core Will Affect Mathematics and English Language Arts in Grades 3-12 Across America -- ETS Center for Assessment and Performance Management
New!! SBAC additional Practice Tests
SBAC Announces Availability of Practice Tests text from 4-12-13 Weekly Update
SBAC "decided to make the Practice Test open and available from our website throughout the summer and into next school year. Also, access to the Practice Tests will not require a password or special ticketing, making it accessible to all who are interested. We recognize this is a change in plans from what we had earlier described, but feel we will actually be doing a better job of providing teachers, schools, parents, and others a better and more comprehensive look at what the Smarter Balanced assessments will entail."
The Practice Tests will:
A Primer on Common Core Aligned Assessments
SBAC, PARCC, ACT Aspire
Doug Reeves on Grading "The Case Against Zero"
Link to SBAC Mathematics Resources
ETS K-12 Center
At-A-Glance Summaries of the Six Assessment Consortia
As several of the assessment consortia begin field-testing this spring, public interest and questions are increasing rapidly. We hope these up-to-date one-page summaries of each of the six multi-state consortia are helpful in your communications activities.
The Comprehensive Assessment Consortia:
Khan Academy Common Core resources--Khan Academy has free online resources and exercises that align with the Common Core and that can be personalized to the needs of individual students. Khan Academy is working with SBAC - Mathematics.
News from SBAC
SmarterApp.org goes live--SmarterApp.org, the home of the open-source community for specifications, code, and other technology information related to Smarter Balanced assessments, is now live. To learn more about SmarterApp.org and the open-source community, visit http://www.smarterapp.org/about.htm.
Resources and Practices Comparison Crosswalk posted--The Smarter Balanced Resources and Practices Comparison Crosswalk has been uploaded to SmarterBalanced.org and can be accessed here: http://www.smarterbalanced.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Smarter-Balanced-Resources-and-Practices-Comparison-Crosswalk1.pdf.
A Summary of Core Components - Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium
Assessment Consortia Guide - Coming Together to Raise Student Achievement
August 2013 Consortia Update
Seeing the Future: How the Common Core Will Affect Mathematics and English Language Arts in Grades 3-12 Across America -- ETS Center for Assessment and Performance Management
New!! SBAC additional Practice Tests
SBAC Announces Availability of Practice Tests text from 4-12-13 Weekly Update
SBAC "decided to make the Practice Test open and available from our website throughout the summer and into next school year. Also, access to the Practice Tests will not require a password or special ticketing, making it accessible to all who are interested. We recognize this is a change in plans from what we had earlier described, but feel we will actually be doing a better job of providing teachers, schools, parents, and others a better and more comprehensive look at what the Smarter Balanced assessments will entail."
The Practice Tests will:
- Be available for grades 3–8 and 11 in both English language arts and mathematics;
- Follow the planned Smarter Balanced test blueprints, making the Practice Test experience very similar to the assessment experience in 2014-15;
- Afford teachers, administrators, and parents access to items planned and designed for the Smarter Balanced assessment;
- Allow students to access the tests over the summer, with the Practice Test available right up to rollout of the operational assessment;
- Use the full array of item types including performance tasks; and
- Make available versions that demonstrate several accommodations:
- Text-to-speech,
- Item-level pop-up Spanish glossaries for construct irrelevant terms (math tests only),
- Braille, and
- American Sign Language (ASL).
A Primer on Common Core Aligned Assessments
SBAC, PARCC, ACT Aspire
Doug Reeves on Grading "The Case Against Zero"
Link to SBAC Mathematics Resources
ETS K-12 Center
At-A-Glance Summaries of the Six Assessment Consortia
As several of the assessment consortia begin field-testing this spring, public interest and questions are increasing rapidly. We hope these up-to-date one-page summaries of each of the six multi-state consortia are helpful in your communications activities.
The Comprehensive Assessment Consortia:
- PARCC (PDF)
- Smarter Balanced (PDF)
- Summary of Key Similarities and Differences (PDF)
- DLM (PDF)
- NCSC (PDF)
- ASSETS (PDF)
- ELPA21 (PDF)
Khan Academy Common Core resources--Khan Academy has free online resources and exercises that align with the Common Core and that can be personalized to the needs of individual students. Khan Academy is working with SBAC - Mathematics.