Comparison of Proposed Common Assessment Elements

Comparison of Proposed Common Assessment Elements

Grades 3-8

Trait / Achieve Partnership / SMARTER Balanced
-English Language Arts*-
Frequency of Administration / Interim exams: after 25%, 50%, and 75% of course instruction, Speaking/listening: after 75%, End of year assessment at 90% / Interim exams: Multiple testing opportunities throughout the year, Comprehensive/Summative: at least once a year with two opportunities
Item Types and Numbers / Extended constructed response, on-demand writing, extended performance task, machine-scored items, speaking/presentation task / Selected-response, extended constructed-response, technology-enhanced items & constructed response, performance event, on-demand prompt
Administration Mode / Interim exams: (grades 3-5) Items delivered online/responses on paper, Speaking/listening exam: Oral, Others: Computer-based / Performance task: computer delivered/teacher administered, All others: Computer adaptive
Scoring Method / Interim exams: (grades 3-5) Human-scored, (grades 6-8) 75% AI, 25% human-scored, Speaking/listening: teacher-scored, End of year: computer-scored / Computer adaptive: 100% AI scoring with 10% teacher read behinds, Performance events: combination of AI and teacher scoring
-Mathematics-
Frequency of Administration / Interim exams: after 25%, 50%, and 75% of course instruction, End of year assessment: at 90% / Interim exams: Multiple testing opportunities throughout the year, Comprehensive/Summative: at least once a year with two opportunities
Item Types and Numbers / Brief constructed response, extended constructed response, extended performance task, machine scored items, technology-enhanced items / Selected-response, technology-enhanced, extended constructed-response, performance events (including released summative events for interim)
Administration Mode / Interim exams: (grades 3-5) Items delivered online, responses recorded on paper, All others: Computer-based / Performance task: computer delivered/teacher administered, All others: Computer adaptive
Scoring Method / Interim exams: (grades 3-5) Human-scored, (grades 6-8) 50% AI-scored, 50% human-scored, End of year: Computer-scored / Computer adaptive: 100% AI scoring with 10% teacher read behinds, Performance events: combination of AI and teacher scoring
*SMARTER Balanced has assessments in reading and writing while the Achieve Partnership has assessments in ELA and speaking/listening.

High School

Trait / Achieve Partnership / SMARTER Balanced
-English Language Arts*-
Frequency of Administration / Interim exams: after 25%, 50%, and 75% of course instruction, Speaking/listening: after 75%, End of course assessment at 90% / Interim exams: Multiple testing opportunities throughout the year, Comprehensive: at least once in Grade 11, with two opportunities per year
Item Types and Numbers / Mixture of extended constructed response, on-demand writing, extended performance tasks, machine-scored items, speaking/presentation task / Selected-response, extended constructed-response, technology-enhanced items & constructed response, performance event, on-demand prompt
Administration Mode / Interim and End of course Computer-based, Speaking/listening assessment: Oral administration / Performance task: computer delivered/teacher administered, All others: Computer adaptive
Scoring Method / Interim exams: 75% AI-scored, 25% human-scored, Speaking/listening: teacher-scored, End of course: computer scored / Computer adaptive: 100% AI scoring with 10% teacher read behinds, Performance events: combination of AI and teacher scoring
-Mathematics-
Frequency of Administration / Interim exams: after 25%, 50%, and 75% of course instruction, End of course assessment: at 90% / Interim exams: Multiple testing opportunities throughout the year, Comprehensive: at least once in Grade 11 with two opportunities per year
Item Types and Numbers / Brief constructed response, extended constructed response, extended performance task, and machine-scored items, technology-enhanced items / Selected-response, technology-enhanced, extended constructed-response, performance events (including released summative events for interim)
Administration Mode / All: Computer-based / Performance task: computer delivered/teacher administered, All others: Computer adaptive
Scoring Method / Interim exams: 50% AI-scored, 50% human-scored, End of course exam: computer scoring / Computer adaptive: 100% AI scoring with 10% teacher read behinds, Performance events: combination of AI and teacher scoring
*SMARTER Balanced has assessments in reading and writing while the Achieve Partnership has assessments in ELA and speaking/listening.

August 11, 2010