1. Secondary Assessment Calendar
Inspect Item Bank
Proposal

2. How are Inspect assessments developed?
Professional item writers focus on writing quality items that have content accuracy, range in cognitive complexity, and meet the Common Core Standards.
To be accepted, each item must be unanimously approved by three separate content experts, ensuring items are free of bias and sensitivity concerns, aligned to the appropriate standards, and meet the expected rigor for the standard.
Statistical data are collected from the items to ensure items and assessments are reliable and valid. Items that fall outside of acceptable statistical norms are either removed from the Inspect item bank or revised and reevaluated.
Items and exams are constructed based on the SBAC blueprints.
Detailed “Inspect Technical Report Brief” published in 2016.

3. Inspect Assessment Types
Interim Formative Assessments
Can be given online or on paper
Focus on more limited sets of standards
Similar to Interim Assessment Blocks (IAB)
Contain more CAASPP-Style Item Types
Listening Comprehension
Clickable Hot-Text
Evidence-based Selected Response
Interim Comprehensive Assessment
Best when delivered online
Follows SBAC Summative Blueprint
Similar to CAASPP Interim Comprehensive Assessment (ICA)
Contain More CAASPP-Style Item Types
Evidence-Based Selected Response

4. Inspect Assessment Targets (Grades 9-11)
Orange Assessment
Green Assessment
Pink Assessment
Blue (Comprehensive)
Reading Literature
Narrative Writing
Language Conventions
Listening (Online Only)
Reading Informational
Explanatory Writing
Vocabulary Acquisition
Argumentative Writing
Constructed based on the SBAC blueprints.
Similar to CAASPP Interim Comprehensive Assessment (ICA).

6. Online and Paper-Based Administration
*Comprehensive Assessment is Online Only

7. Item Types

8. Two-Part Multiple Choice

9. Hot Text

10. Short Answer

11. Highlight (Multiple Correct)

12. Sample Items (Listening)