Office of Assessment Updates

State Board Presentation

January 21, 2016

Delaware System of Student Assessment (DeSSA)

Enhancements

Training and Technology

All resources updated and streamlined with new resources added (available in
Schoology)
Manuals, online trainings, quick guides, online platform enhancements
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Updates: Smarter Assessment

Digital Library and Interim Assessment resources have been available since
January 2015.
Score reports for parents and schools will arrive by mail in July.
Preliminary online scores will be available earlier according to the following
scoring windows:
If Computerized Adaptive Test
The score will be available in the
(CAT) and Performance Task (PT) Online Reporting System (DeSSA
for a content area are completed
Portal) by this date:
by this date:

Outreach and Communications

Site visits:
110 district school visits
23 charter school visits
Weekly contact with
districts/charters by DDOE liaisons
District test coordinator in-person
meetings and eNewsletters

Weekly conference calls during

test window
Expansion of local assessment
security plans

Parent Smarter Score Reports

Improvements with student
ELA/literacy and math
scores to parents
Enhanced to include
descriptions of student
performance on each
claim/area of assessment

Offers FAQs and additional

resources, including our
standards
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DeSSA Accessibility Improvements

Increased accessibility across four content areas with

clarified descriptions

Smarter Balanced test resources now entered directly

into testing system by schools
Student testing resources immediately available

Available glossaries for Smarter Balanced:

Arabic
Punjabi
Cantonese
Russian
Filipino
Spanish

Korean
Ukrainian
Mandarin
Vietnamese
Portuguese

Delaware allows human interpreters for languages not supported by

glossaries listed

DCAS-Alt2
(new portfolio assessment)
Designed for students with the most-significant communication
challenges
Participation guidelines to assist teams
Wide variety of stakeholders part of development process
New task types
Pilot during Summer 2016
Field test during Fall 2016
Fully operational Spring 2017

Important areas include:

Communication focus within the context of the academic content
Consistent portfolio design
Individualized reports reflecting student strengths and areas of
growth available to parents and schools

NEW SAT
Overview

Resources

SAT replaces the Smarter Assessment as

state accountability test for 11th grade

SAT purpose:
1) To predict student readiness for
college and careers
2) To measure students knowledge
related to the states ELA/math
standards, including writing

Standard setting and alignment studies

planned over next few months

SAT School Day:

April 12, 2016

Trainings, resources, and information for schools

In-person regional meetings
Webinars
College Board site visits
One-on-one assistance available
Accommodations crosswalk
Free resources and materials for educators,
students and families:

Khan Academy

College Board

Delaware Department of Education

Make-up SAT School Day:

April 27, 2016

New Website:
http://www.doe.k12.de.us/sat
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www.doe.k12.de.us/SAT

PSAT/SAT Reports

Students score history for

entire SAT Suite of
Assessments available in
one place
Redesigned assessments
will have detailed score
information, mimicking
students view
Benchmark and score
statistics in one place

10 10th

NOTE: All data is fictitious.

11th

10 10th

11th

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PSAT/SAT Educator Reports

Scores,
benchmark,
and score
statistics in
one place

NOTE: All data is fictitious.

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Assessment Inventory Update

Statewide Assessment Inventory completed and

published by DDOE and posted on website Spring
2015

Assessment Inventories were submitted by all

districts as required by Dec. 31, 2015

Office of Assessment developing summary report

highlighting:
Assessment inventory work
Recommendations provided by districts to
reduce over-testing
Impact data

Senate Joint Resolution 2 (SJR2) committee

currently meeting and will be reviewing inventories;
to finalize recommendation(s) by June 30, 2016

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