Resources to Help Parents Understand Score Reports and to Boost Learning at Home Last week, Smarter Balanced released the new Starting Smarter Website, which helps parents of children in grades 3-8 and high school use state score reports to better understand …
Training Test, Practice Test, and Sample Items and When to Use Them Elizabeth Johnston, Guest Blogger English Language Arts Teacher (7th Grade) With all the different tools and resources available to help us get familiar with the summative test, it …
How to Use Assessment Data to Identify Gaps in Learning Elizabeth Johnston, Guest Blogger English Language Arts Teacher (7th Grade) We are getting into testing season and everyone wants to make sure their kids have learned what they need to …
State Network of Educators Winter Workshop Provides Professional Development, Networking Over 120 educators from across 11 Smarter Balanced member states and territories recently met in Portland, OR to develop and review instructional classroom resources at the State Network of Educators …
Elizabeth Johnston, Guest Blogger English Language Arts Teacher (7th Grade) Have you used interim assessment blocks (IABs) with your students? Do you use them as a common assessment with your team to identify student needs? Or maybe your district uses …
Familiarizing Students with Universal Test Tools Can Yield Confidence Boost How to access Universal Test Tools At the top right corner of every test question (on interims, the summative test, and most practice tests) is a “hamburger” menu (it looks …
Over the course of a week in Chicago, Mathematics and ELA test items were reviewed for content alignment, bias and sensitivity, and new items were developed for field-testing Classroom teachers from eight states convened July 30-August 3 to provide a …
