2008 Fall Assessment Conference October 2021, 2008

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2008 Fall Assessment Conference October 20-21,
2008

• Debbie Matthews, MS Ed
• dmatthews_at_ksde.org

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Kansas Testing Schedules

• Testing Schedule
• High School Testing Schedule
• History/Government is not assessed this year
  unless the teachers of students who take the
  alternate assessment chooses to assess for OTL.

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What is New with the KAMM?

• KAMM Writing Assessment
• www.ksde.org gt Divisions gt Learning Services
  Division gt Special Education Services gt Icon on
  the right side of the page assessments gtChoose
  KAMM
• 2 prompts
• 2 sections divided and edited
• Teaching the Six Traits Writing Model
• Assessing the Six Traits Writing Model
• Scoring Rubric
• Q A

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What is New with the KAA?

• When a student enters your district after
  January 5 the student will not have to be
  assessed on the
• Kansas Alternate Assessment.

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What is New with the KAA/KAMM?

• All KAA and KAMM information is now located at
  the following url www.ksde.org gt divisions gt
  special education services gt assessment gt icon on
  the right side of the page gt choose KAA or
  KAMM .

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KAA Summer 2008Portfolio Review

• Reviewed 291 Portfolios
• A 5 sample across 4 content areas.
• Rated each Portfolio on 14 questions.
• Portfolios were scored using pre-established
  criteria.
• Overall results revealed, Portfolios were good to
  excellent.

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KAA Summer Portfolio Review Example

• Assessment Performance Categories (Academic
  Warning, Approaches Standard, Meets Standard,
  Exceeds Standard, Exemplary) and the raters
  overall impression of how well the learner
  performed on the five selected indicators, and
  how the rater would judge or classify the
  learners overall performance.
• A Exemplary 94/281
  34
• B Exceeds Standard 93/281 33
• C Meets Standard 60/281 21
• D Meets Standard or above 247/281 88

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KAA Summer Portfolio Review Example

• How would the rater rate the overall clarity of
  the evidence samples in the folio (i.e. did the
  evidence allow you to make your ratings with
  confidence)?
• A Exemplary 104/281 37
• B Exceeds Standard 84/281 30
• C Meets Standard 59/281 21
• D Meets Standard or above
• 247/281 88

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KAA Summer Portfolio Review Example

• How would the rater rate the overall
  appropriateness (fit as a measure of the
  indicator) of the assessment procedures used to
  collect data for each piece of evidence for each
  indicator?
• A Exemplary 113/281 40
• B Exceeds Standard 100/281 36
• C Meets Standard 49/281 17
• D Meets Standard or above 262/281 93

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KAA Summer Portfolio Review Example

• How would the rater rate the overall compliance
  with Kansas Alternate Assessment requirements, as
  evidenced by the presentation and quality of
  information in this learners folio?
• A Exemplary 123/281 44
• B Exceeds Standard 76/281 27
• C Meets Standard 52/281 19
• D Meets Standard or above 251/281 90

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Data Folio Requirements

• 5 indicators per content area
• 3 evidence labels
• 5 data points per evidence label
• 15 data points per indicator

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Portfolio ReviewEvidence Labels

• Examples that illustrate how to record data on
  the Evidence Labels

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Portfolio ReviewEvidence Labels

• 1.All fields on the Evidence Labels must be
  completed.
• 2. A new area on the Evidence Labels is the KEY.
• 3. Accommodations the student uses needs to be
  completed on Evidence Labels.

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Portfolio ReviewData

• 4. Data need to relate to the content area
  (i.e. math should be about math etc.).
• 5.Data need to relate to the content indicator
• 6. Do not use percentages on work sheets use the
  scoring key.
• 7. Not enough trial must have 5 trials

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Resources

• Teachers Guide www.ksde.org
• Kansas Alternate Implementation Guide www.cete.us
  or www.ksde.org

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KAMM and KAAFuture

• Advisory Council KASDAC
• Collection of Portfolios
• Next year 2009-2010 the extended standards for
  all content areas will be revised.

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Contacts

• Debbie Matthews MS Ed
• dmatthews_at_ksde.org
• 785-296-0916
• Joan Houghton EdD
• jhoughton_at_ksde.org
• 785-296-2515 (V/TTY)