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Following my earlier release of # 10 — # 6, here are my top five takeaways from my Q&A sessions with USED, PARCC, and Smarter Balanced (most important is # 1).

Join our webinar to learn what charter schools must do to implement the Common Core standards and the Smarter Balanced Assessments.

Actually, under the Smarter Balanced summative assessment design, states will be giving different tests during the same 12 - week window at the end of each academic year.

Finally, the transparency of the Smarter Balanced system is antithetical to the competitive nature of commercial test publishing.

Additionally, Smarter Balanced is developing a distributed, multi-actor system of test delivery, with the Consortium maintaining responsibility only for those aspects that are essential for ensuring continued comparability of results, quality improvements, and state - led governance.

Another looming disaster is the Department's plans to «peer review» the new assessments under development — PARCC and Smarter Balanced but also the other exams that some states plan to use to assess student performance in relation to the Common Core.

We see the issue simmering with the delicate rollout of test items by PARCC and Smarter Balanced, as well as in local news stories on this and that objectionable classroom assignment.

Computer - adaptive assessments (such as those developed by the Smarter Balanced consortium) can be structured and administered in ways that measure growth at every level, without overburdening any student with a ridiculously long test.

Smarter Balanced is grounded in the notion that putting good information about student performance in the hands of teachers can have a profound impact on instruction and — as a result — on student learning.

The aligned PARCC and Smarter Balanced tests are also still in place in more than half of the states that adopted them.

AUGUSTA — As Maine shifts to a proficiency - based system by 2018, the 2014 - 15 Smarter Balanced Assessment scores in English language arts and mathematics for grades 3 through 8 and the third year of high school are the first statewide assessment of our students» accomplishments in meeting Maine's college and career readiness standards.

Also, the Parent page includes resources to help you make sense of your child's Smarter Balanced score.

In March 2013, the governing states of Smarter Balanced endorsed a sustainability plan that included instructions for the Smarter Balanced executive director to enter into negotiations with the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) at UCLA to serve as a partner and host for the Smarter Balanced Consortium after the completion of the federal grant in September 2014.

Gonzalez became a Common Core expert through her work writing test questions for the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, which developed the standardized tests in math and English language arts administered to California students in grades 3 - 8 and 11 each spring.

The headline story of the month of May was technology readiness for online testing, no doubt heightened by the media's coverage of the ongoing field tests being conducted in schools across the country by PARCC and Smarter Balanced.

The results on the Smarter Balanced assessments, the centerpiece of the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress, or CAASPP, were released on Sept. 9 and showed the vast achievement gaps that decades of education reforms have failed to close.

Performance tasks in the Smarter Balanced assessment demand that students demonstrate their writing skills by crafting stories or essays in response to several rich sources, including texts from a variety of content areas.

Plus, states are using a smaller number of different tests: PARCC, Smarter Balanced, and a few privately created tests.

It is essential that the scores accurately reflect student mastery of the Common Core State Standards and that they have a common meaning across Smarter Balanced states.

California is providing a range of new resources to teachers, parents and the public to make Smarter Balanced tests and student scores easier to understand — and more useful in actually guiding instruction.

Educators are urging parents and students not to get discouraged with this year's Smarter Balanced test results.

Created by expert educators in collaboration with Smarter Balanced, Digital Library Connections link student performance on IABs to resources in the Digital Library.

Updated with correction: With the State Board of Education's approval, California became the eighth state Wednesday to award a contract to the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium for the standardized tests in the Common Core State Standards that students will take next spring.

A partnership through SMARTER Balanced presented that opportunity: Idaho, for example, had a history of experimenting with adaptive testing, which led to a desire for that kind of assessment, Carissa Miller, deputy superintendent at the Idaho Department of Education, told Governing.

2015 promises to be a pivotal year for several major reforms in public education, including the continuing rollout of the Common Core State Standards, the state's new school financing and accountability system, and the administration of the online Smarter Balanced assessments.

Answers to frequently asked questions about California's Smarter Balanced Assessments based on the Common Core State Standards

These practice tests will be freely available on the Smarter Balanced web site (www.SmarterBalanced.org); they will utilize the same software system that is being used for the operational test and will feature many of the tools, accommodations and accessibility features that will be included in the final software package.

Testing started Tuesday at the school, where a group of teachers, administrators, parents and students had earlier agreed to boycott the exams, called Smarter Balanced, which are replacing Washington's old statewide tests.

Since June 2011 when California joined the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, the target date for implementation of computer - adaptive Common Core tests has been spring 2015.

For the last two and a half years, this group of technical experts has been busily doing its work, and the result is that Smarter Balanced is on track and on budget.

The Academic Indicator (PDF) A state indicator that measures district and school performance on the Smarter Balanced English Language Arts / Literacy (ELA).

(Updated to include further comments from the executive director of the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium.)

Like any federal grantee, Smarter Balanced must operate within the requirements of its federal grant; however, there is a great deal of latitude built into the grant for state decision - making.

For example, in the Smarter Balanced practice task for third - graders, students read two articles on being an astronaut and then must develop their own thesis for an informational article about that topic.

During the next few weeks California educators will play a pivotal role in a crucial phase of work for the new Smarter Balanced assessments California students will take this spring: setting the cutoff scores that will indicate how well a student is performing.

In addition to the $ 4 billion in RTTT funding, two consortia of states — the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers and the SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium — divided the remaining $ 350 million in RTTT funding — $ 170 million and $ 160 million, respectively — to develop common assessments.

The most widely tested are the Smarter Balanced Summative Assessments in mathematics and English language arts / literacy, which are given in grades three through eight and grade 11.

Our second installment of the testing - consortia series is a conversation with Smarter Balanced.

The consortiums are also working to form comparability metrics, so that scores from PARCC and SMARTER Balanced assessments can be effectively compared.

Two assessment consortiums, SMARTER Balanced and the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), have risen from the Common Core movement.

Right now, Smarter Balanced provides a bandwidth checker to allow schools to determine the number of students that can simultaneously take tests and is hosting, in collaboration with PARCC, a «technology readiness tool» that allows schools and districts to assess and track their progress toward readiness.

Smarter Balanced will continue to be governed by its member states, with K - 12 and higher education representatives and a small executive committee providing day - to - day oversight.

The testing groups Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers and Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium are developing exams for students» mastery of those standards using Race to the Top money.

The Smarter Balanced assessments fail to meet basic standards for testing and accountability and should not be used for diagnostic or placement purposes.

In the 2014 - 15 school year, the vast majority of states will use new online student assessments from PARCC and Smarter Balanced that will be based on the deeper and more rigorous Common Core State Standards.

Using a widely regarded conceptual approach called Evidence - Centered Design, and working in partnership with an array of private sector companies, work groups comprising assessment leadership from Smarter Balanced states have developed the various components necessary for a next - generation assessment system.

Twenty - eight states have joined SMARTER Balanced.

The Smarter Balanced assessment system is a key part of implementing the Common Core State Standards and preparing all students for success in college and careers.

Smarter Balanced is committed to doing more outreach and communication work to better inform all our stakeholders about the progress we have made and the challenges ahead.

This week: Michael Kirst's impact on California education, trouble - free Smarter Balanced assessments in math and English language arts, and the primary election for governor and state superintendent of public instruction heating up.