SBAC SMARTER Summary for Academies

							•   29 States
•   $176,000,000 for development
•   Includes formative, interim & summative
•   Governed and controlled by states
•   Co-chairs, Judy Park, Utah; Tony Alpert, Oregon
•   Teacher Involvement
•   Utah will administer 2014/15 school year
• To develop a set of comprehensive and innovative
  assessments for grades 3-8 and high school in English
  language arts and mathematics aligned to the Common
  Core State Standards
• Students leave high school prepared for postsecondary
  success in college or a career through increased student
  learning and improved teaching
• The assessments shall be operational across Consortium
  states in the 2014-15 school year
• States will participate in pilots 2013-14 school year



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• Meaningfully engaged in all aspects of the assessment
  development and implementation process.
• Development of test maps that assess the full range of the
  CCSS and that articulate within and across grade levels.
• Specifying, writing, reviewing, and range finding test items/
  performance tasks.
• Scoring constructed response items and performance tasks, in
  conjunction with AI systems.
• Scoring of performance tasks as a professional development
  vehicle to enhance teacher capacity to evaluate student work
  aligned to the standards.
• Designing different score reports and web-enabled tools and
  services to maximize their communication value and
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...the SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium
can be found online at

        www.k12.wa.us/SMARTER




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