1. Saturday school
April 22, 2017

2. Parent surveys
Thank you for taking the time to be here today and to providing feedback to us!
We use this feedback to:
Make changes to policy
Review what we are doing well, and what we need to improve
Please place surveys in envelope

3. Sbac preview

4. What is SBAC?
The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) is a standardized test consortium. It is a required Common Core State Standards-aligned test.
It uses automated essay scoring (based on rubric criteria)
It is adaptive (adjusts to student level)

5. How are SBAC Scores used?
ASPIRE uses SBAC scores for several purposes
Identification of students who need academic support
Affects class placement in support classes for Math and ELA
Predictors of student success
Measurements of teacher effectiveness
Guides instruction

6. What does the SBAC LOOK LIKE?
There are many different question types that appear on the SBAC
These question types occur on both ELA AND MATH SBAC Tests
Multiple choice, single correct response 
Multiple choice, single correct response (highlight)
Multiple choice, multiple correct responses (checkboxes and HIGHLIGHT)
Matching Tables (variation using True/False or Yes/No format
Short Text

7. Question Types ELA ONLY
MATH ONLY
Drag and Drop (select and move objects)
Hot Spot (Select targeted areas in the response area)
Table Fill in
Graphing
Equation/numeric
ELA ONLY
Two-part multiple-choice, with evidence responses
Hot Text (select and move text)
Listening Tasks (audio only)
This is new required standard!!
Essay

8. Let’s take a closer look…
Using your student’s user name and password, log on to a chrome book
Open GOOGLE browser and search sbac practice test
Or type in the following url
Choose student interface: Practice and training tests

9. You do not need any information to take the practice test.
Guest Log in
Click on “SIGN IN”
You do not need any information to take the practice test.

10. Select the grade of the practice test you would like to take.
Select grade level
Select the grade of the practice test you would like to take.
Then click “Yes”

11. Select your test
Choose either
ELA Practice Test Or
Math practice test

12. Getting through the test
Click through the settings and complete the sound check
Students will need headphones on the actual test. For today, you can just click through the sound test.
Begin the test
Use the note catcher to make observations about the test you selected.

13. Enjoy your day and we appreciate you being here!
Thank you!
Enjoy your day and we appreciate you being here!