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1 Welcome to the Practicing for the Smarter Balanced Writing Performance Task Online Session West Virginia Department of Education Office of Assessment and Research October 15, 2014 While you wait for the webinar to begin, please be sure to turn on your speakers.

2 Welcome Stacey Murrell Office of Assessment and Research

3 Agenda Smarter Balanced Writing Performance Tasks Smarter Balanced Classroom Activities Constructed Response Items and Scoring Methods Smarter Balanced Writing Rubrics Additional West Virginia Practice Writing Performance Tasks

4 Smarter Balanced ELA Claims ELA: Targets by Grade Level for each Claim

5 A writing performance task: Requires students to demonstrate the ability to think and reason, and produce fully developed products. Measures complex “assessment targets.” Provides evidence of college and career readiness.

6 Performance task structure Consists of 3 components- – Stimulus presentation- source documents and prompt directions – Information processing- student interaction with stimulus materials- should advance the students’ understanding of the stimulus content or assignment- constructed response items and multiple-choice, note taking – Scorable product or performance- essays

7 Who Completes Writing Performance Task? 2014-2015 – WV students in grades 3-11

8 3 Sections of Performance Task First: Teacher-led standardized, classroom activity Then: Part 1: – Reading sources and answering constructed response items and multiple-choice items – Taking notes on scratch paper Part 2: Typing in an essay in a textbox on the computer

9 Classroom Activity Purpose Introduces students to context of performance task, to prevent disadvantage Gives understanding of setting or situation, potential unfamiliar concepts (cultural, etc.), gives key terms/vocab Gets students interested in exploring topic more Designed for 30 minutes, complete in one session of time Non-secure and displayable materials (pictures, tables, etc.), can use SmartBoard, etc. Script used by teacher to make standardized http://sbac.portal.airast.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Classroom-Activity- and-Performance-Task-Administration-Guidelines.pdf http://sbac.portal.airast.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Classroom-Activity- and-Performance-Task-Administration-Guidelines.pdf

10 Performance Task Part 1 Made up of: – Setting the Scenario – Reading the Sources – Answering Items – Taking Notes Teacher-student interaction will be standardized (i.e., carefully scripted or described in the task directions for fairness and security) Group work- none in ELA writing performance task

11 Part 1: Scenario Set up a scenario for context, purpose, and audience of the performance task This is not the source materials Scenario is short: 3-5 sentences at Grades 3- 4; 5-7 sentences at Grades 5-8 and 11 Does not tell the specific writing prompt, just tells what the context, purpose, and audience will be (writing an informational article about being an astronaut for your teacher)

12 Part 1: Sources Vocabulary- definitions of specialized terms that help students Sources should lexile below grade level when reading is not being assessed Sources will be able to be read and re-read No Internet access- will use screenshots of Internet pages

13 Part 1: Number of Sources Source Documents – Number of documents dependent on grade level Grade SpanNumber of Sources Grade 32 source documents Grades 4-53 source documents Grades 6-83-4 source documents Grade 114-5 source documents

14 Part 1: Length of Sources Source Documents – Length of documents dependent on grade level Grade SpanMaximum Words Grade 31000 words Grades 4-51400 words Grades 6-82400 words Grade 113400 words

15 Part 1: Items asking Questions about Sources All Grades 3-8 and 11 will read the sources and answer items before moving to the essay writing. Number of items is the same regardless of essay type and grade level: – 2 constructed response items (hand scored) – 1 other item type, i.e. multiple choice (automatically scored)

16 How do students answer constructed response items? Accuracy of answer is what matters Can be: – Sentences – Incomplete sentence answers – Note taking form, i.e. bulleted answers Remember a person will score these using criteria specific to the item

17 Sample Constructed Response Item and Its Rubric The sources discuss. Explain what you have learned about. Use one detail from each source to support your explanation. For each detail, include the source title or number. Score points Scoring Criteria 2 of 2 The response: - Explains something learned and identifies one detail from Source 1 and one detail from Source 2 - Gives the source title for each or uses Source 1 or Source 2 as labels. 1 of 2 The response: - Explains something learned and identifies one detail from Source 1 or one detail from Source 2 - Does not reference both source titles or Source 1and Source 2 as labels 0 of 2 The response either misinterprets the explanation and details from the sources and provides no citation

18 Part 1: Taking Notes Students can take notes about the sources which will be used to write the essay. They can: – Use scrap paper and pencils – Use Global Notes which is online note taking on the computer

19 Part 2: Writing the Essay Tools for all students: – English dictionary may be available – Highlighter available – Global Notes is online note taking page – Spellcheck available, does not offer correct spelling – From Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium: Usability, Accessibility, and Accommodations Guidelines, http://www.smarterbalanced.org/wordpress/wp- content/uploads/2014/03/SmarterBalanced_Guidelines_091113.pdf http://www.smarterbalanced.org/wordpress/wp- content/uploads/2014/03/SmarterBalanced_Guidelines_091113.pdf

20 What does student writing look like? No student samples or exemplars exist at this time. Look at the language in sample Smarter Balanced Task for Grade 3 informational article directions: – “For Part 2, you are being asked to write an informational article that is several paragraphs long. Type your response in the box below. The box will get bigger as you type.”

21 Part 2: Essay Scoring 10 point analytic rubric – 4 points for organization/purpose – 4 points for evidence/elaboration – 2 points for conventions 5 different rubrics based on essay type and grade level- no longer one rubric like WV Writing Rubrics from WESTEST 2 Online Writing

22 Smarter Balanced Writing Rubrics (used on performance tasks essays) Type of EssayGrades Narrative3-8 Opinion3-5 Argumentative6-8 and 11 Informative3-5 Explanatory6-8 and 11

23 Analytic Trait Language Organization/Purpose (4 points) – 4-clear and effective organization, 3- evident organization, 2-inconsistent organization, 1-little or no organization, NS- insufficient Evidence/Elaboration (4 points) – 4-thorough elaboration, 3-adequate elaboration, 2- uneven, cursory elaboration, 1- minimal elaboration, NS- insufficient Conventions (2 points) – 2-adequate command, 1- partial command, 0- little or no command, NS- insufficient

24 Smarter Balanced Rubrics Find them here at the bottom of page: http://sbac.portal.airast.org/practice- test/resources/ http://sbac.portal.airast.org/practice- test/resources/

25 Timing and Sequence Performance task has two sessions. SBAC recommends two days. – Classroom Activity (completed prior to sessions) – Day 1/Part 1: Reading sources, notes, and constructed response items and answers – Day 2/Part 2: Writing essay Students unable to return to Part 1, once they begin Part 2 (i.e., change a constructed response answer) Untimed sessions for Part 1 and Part 2. SBAC estimated times for Classroom Activity (30 mins), Performance Task Part 1 (1:30-2 hours) and Part 2 (2 hours)

26 Practice Opportunities for Students

27 Smarter Balanced Practice One ELA performance task per grade level Grades 3-8 and 11 Here is how they are titled: Grade 3 ELA Performance Task/Braille Performance Task [PDF] PDFs located here: http://sbac.portal.airast.org/practice- test/resources/ http://sbac.portal.airast.org/practice- test/resources/

28 Office of Assessment Practice WV teachers wrote the performance tasks using Smarter Balanced item specifications in 2012. Grades 3-11 available, 9 and 10 grades also At least 3 practice tasks for each grade level Some are grade bands, such as grades 6-7 Find them here: http://tinyurl.com/wvnxg- interimshttp://tinyurl.com/wvnxg- interims We did not create Class Activity because we made them prior to Class Activity being designed

29 Questions? Survey on this training session Go here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/L9FZPSY


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