Task 1
The California assessment system consists of these two assessments.
What is CAASPP and ELPAC?
The three security forms that must be signed annually for each LEA
What are the Superintendent Designation Form, the Security Agreement Form, and the Security Affidavit?
The approximate number of students that will take the Smarter Balanced Assessment each year
What is 3.2 million students?
YouTube®, Snapchat®, Facebook®, Instagram®, Google+®, Twitter®, and school and LEA websites; as well as Snapchat® and other social media applications as they become available.
What are some of the social media sites that ETS will access and look for any postings—both images and text—that include secure test materials such as test questions or passages, test booklet covers, and answer documents.
The Universal tools, designated supports, and accommodations will be supported for these two assessments in time for their first operational administration.
What are ELPAC CBA and Alternate ELPAC CBA?
This document will include an inventory analysis of the item bank and ETS recommendations for item development for that cycle to ensure coverage of the Board-approved blueprint in subsequent operational administrations.
What is the Item Development Plan?
This tool offers more effective guidance by providing specific information at the time the user is looking for help.
What is Contextual help?
This type of scoring includes technology-enhanced items, require students to provide written responses, from simple fill-in-the-blank items with comprehensive lists of possible answers to full essay responses.
What is Constructed-Response Item Scoring?
A service that allows ETS to offer LEAs the ability to request paper SSRs once per administration is an example of this type of service.
What is an ancillary (fee-based) service?
ETS will use these to guide day-to-day activities
What are process documents?
The LEAs contact this team when they have a question about the Digital Library
Who is CalTAC?
The number of times a day that TOMS accepts a data feed from CALPADS
What is daily?
These investigations will attempt to determine the identity of those involved in the incident, recover any missing material, and assess the extent to which they compromised the test content.
What are security breach investigations?
Assessments that do not provide paper Braille materials
What are the CAAs and the Alternate ELPAC CBAs?
To measure a student’s competency in Spanish language arts in grades three through eight and high school
What is the purpose of the CSA (California Spanish Assessment)?
This initial meeting will include discussion of all manuals and context-sensitive help and proposed timeframes of their releases.
What is an intake meeting?
ETS has developed rater engines that make it possible to automatically score more complex constructed-response items.
What is AI (Artificial Intelligence) scoring?
ETS will provide the SSR for this assessment in both English and Spanish versions.
What is the CSA SSR?
Name one of ten components to the Project Management Plan
Scope Management Plan
Organization Chart and Governance Model
Configuration Management Plan
Change Control Management Plan
Communication Management Plan
Risk Management and Escalation Plan
Quality Management Plan
Requirements Management Plan
Schedule Management Plan
Resource Management Plan
One of 4 ways ETS must solicit and use data and information to improve processes
What is...
1. Collect feedback from LEAs at workshops
2. Provide statewide training to LEAs
3. Review question logs from live websites
4. Obtain weekly feedback from CalTAC
Beginning for the 2018-19 test administration, the only two reasons why an LEA can administer a paper test
What are...
1. Students with special needs who cannot access the online assessments and require braille, large print, or regular print accommodations?
2. Schools who experience unexpected temporary technology issues that are beyond the schools control and cannot be resolved by CalTAC and/or technical services/support teams within 2 weeks.
Items must not be copied into a third-party system without the permission of Smarter Balanced.
What is one of the test security requirements of the Smarter Balanced Interim Assessment?
This document will outline recommendations and information on the types of supports that may be appropriate for the administration of ELPAC CBA.
What is the ELPAC Accessibilities Framework Document?
This is a set of documents to guide item developers and reviewers on approaches to item development, alignment to performance expectations, and characteristics of the components of the performance expectations (i.e., Science and Engineering Practices [SEPs], Disciplinary Core Ideas [DCIs], Cross Cutting Concepts [CCCs]) and will provide documentation of the test development process for peer review.
What are "item specifications"?
This process allows 10% of LEAs across California to send their Initial ELPAC Answer Books for scoring by ETS.
What is Rotating Score Validation Process (RSVP)?
ETS will provide results of any such request from an LEA within 30 business days of receipt of the request.
What is the Request for Rescore Process?
All Interim reports will continue to be available via this system.
What is California Educator Reporting System?
The single point of contact for submitting deliverables and review items to the CDE and notifying the CDE of the submissions.
Who is the gatekeeper?
The minimum number of customer service representatives dedicated to handling CAASPP and ELPAC inquiries
What are 30 customer service representatives?
The availability month and year of the ELPAC CBA Practice and Training Tests
What is December 2019?
This process will create a permanent, detailed record of paper items distributed to each school, which can be matched against returning materials to assess the completeness of each LEA’s/school’s return.
What is closed loop tracking for a paper pencil test?
Accessibility features that are not appropriate for a content area as approved by the CDE.
What are accessibility features that will be turned off by the Test Delivery System (TDS)?
Conducting this confirms that existing ELPAC items can be administered effectively as a Computer Based Assessment (CBA) and will continue to gather appropriate evidence about students’ English language proficiency
What is a Usability Pilot?
Name two of the five topic-specific guides and manuals to assist LEA and school staff with preparations and administration of the California assessment system.
What are:
1. Interim Assessment User Guide
2. Completion Status User Guide and Roster Management for CAASPP Testing
3. Accessibility Guide for CAASPP Testing
4. CAASPP Security Incidents and Appeals Procedure Guide
5. ELPAC Accessibility Guidelines.
For this specific 2018–19 test administration, ETS will deliver test results no later than six to eight weeks after ETS has received and processed the student answer documents for scoring.
What is the Summative ELPAC paper administration?
In the 2019–20 administration, ETS will work with the CDE to add these two additional languages of translated SSRs, for CAASPP and Summative ELPAC (excluding the CSA SSR).
What is Arabic and Cantonese?
Name three of the nine active assessments and tools included in California assessment system for Amendment 6
What is...
Smarter Balanced Digital Library
Smarter Balanced Interim Assessments
Smarter Balanced Summative Assessments
California Alternate Assessments for English-Language Arts and Mathematics (CAA for ELA and mathematics)—formerly known as CAA
California Science Tests (CAST)—formerly known as the CA NGSS
California Alternate Assessments for Science (CAA for Science)—formerly known as CA NGSS Alternate
California Spanish Assessments (CSA)—formerly known as the primary language assessments in Spanish
English Language Proficiency Assessment for California (ELPAC)—including the Initial ELPAC and Summative ELPAC
Alternate English Language Proficiency Assessment for California (Alternate ELPAC)—including the Initial Alternate ELPAC and the Summative Alternate ELPAC
The cost to an LEA to attend an ELPAC scoring workshop
What is no cost?
A process that is a combination of waterfall and agile software development processes
What is ETS' Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) methodology?
The method for LEAs to be trained on the Test Security Procedures
What is the Test Security Guidelines video?
The vendor who produces the Smarter Balanced braille forms.
Who is American Printing House for the Blind (APH)?
We do this in order to achieve a strong representation of educators from California in the item development process
What is recruiting California Educators?
This system includes a rich set of tools to enhance the student’s computerized-testing experience.
What is the Test Delivery System (TDS)?
This flow allows AIR to transmit the data (machine scored and responses for hand scoring) to ETS for tests completed that day.
What is the CAASPP Computer-based Test Delivery—Scoring and Reporting Flow?
This system will produce customized reports showing preliminary individual and group level results for online assessments.
What is AIR ORS?