- [Kim] Welcome everybody, this is Kim Young.
I work within the Office of Educational Assessment
and Accountability, and I'm gonna be the monitor
and facilitator of this hour-long
webinar on Michigan's 2018-19 State Assessment System.
We're welcoming you today, in mid-August
as you're all gearing up for another school year.
So we're glad that you took time out your busy schedules,
to be with us this afternoon.
There's just a couple of reminders, for you today,
just reminding you that we gonna record this webinar
and then we will post it on the OEAA site
the first of next week, along with the FAQ that will come,
potentially, out of this hour-long webinar, as well.
Related to that FAQ, are those questions
that you may want to ask.
If you would put your questions in the chat box,
because we find that keep people muted,
that keeps the background noise at a minimum.
If you would please put your questions in the chat box,
and as we go through those sections of our webinar today,
we'll stop, and we'll offer a question or two
to the person that's responsible for that section.
But don't worry, if we don't get to your question,
we definitely will, will put it in the FAQ, and then,
we'll post it on the OEAA site, the first of next week.
With that, I think we'll just keep, we'll move forward,
and I want to just make sure that we let you know
what our topics are for today.
We're gonna provide to you an overview
of Michigan's System of State Assessments,
and what's new, and what's the same
for the upcoming school year.
We're gonna take a look at some of the policies
and practices related to state reimbursements
of the optional early literacy and benchmark assessments
that will begin this fall.
And then finally, we'll talk a little bit about,
about the information and how Michigan is supporting
the use of the formative assessment process in Michigan.
Even though there's only three topics here,
there's a lot that goes within those topics.
We are gonna get started, and with me today
on this webinar, we have Andy Middlestead,
who is Director of the Office
of Educational Assessment and Accountability.
We also have Linda Howley, who is
the Test Development Manager for OEAA,
and also Kate Cermak, who is Manager
of the Test Administration and Reporting unit within OEAA.
I think with that, we will get going, and just remember,
that if you have a question, please put it in the chat box,
and we will either answer it live,
or we'll post it within the FAQ.
With that, I think Andy, you get to go first,
and then just let me know
when you want me to forward the slides.
- [Andy] Great, thanks, everybody.
Well, I appreciate everyone taking some time out today
to spend with us, and preview a little bit
about what's happening with assessments this coming year.
Linda, Kate, and I, and Kim, we'll kind of
pass the ball back and forth, throughout our hour here,
and like Kim said, we'll cover as much material as we can.
We're excited to give folks a look into this coming year.
So first off, I want to talk about
this assessment system for this year.
This coming year, we are continuing with M-STEP,
MI-Access, and MME, as state summative assessments
for most students, to provide consistency and stability.
We've had a couple pretty stable years,
in terms of M-STEP and MME, and that's gonna continue on
moving forward, and we'll talk a little bit about
what's happening in each of the grade levels,
and then what certain other things coming up.
We're gonna expand the use of PSAT
as a college readiness assessment,
when you use that as the state summative assessment
for ELA and Math, in Grade Eight.
That is pretty much our only change this coming school year,
in terms of what the assessments will look like.
So we'll have that change in Grade Eight,
so students will see the PSAT 8/9 in the Eighth Grade.
And we're gonna continue to offer PSAT
in Grades Nine and 10, as we have in past years.
Go ahead and next slide, Kim.
The assessment system will have in place,
it continues to provide the K-2 assessments,
which are one option to help prepare students
to read by Grade Three.
Those are the Michigan Early Literacy
and Math Benchmark Assessments.
We're now going to be providing those three times a year.
For the last number of years, the ELA and Math
Early Literacy and Benchmark test
has been just in the spring and the fall,
and we're actually gonna be able to provide those
three times a year, this coming year, so that
one, it is a, it better meets the requirements
of the Read by Grade Three law that's out there.
It's also going to provide a mid-year touchpoint,
for schools that are using those,
in terms of their students' progress.
And there are still gonna be computer,
or vendor-provided computer adaptive and benchmark,
the screener tools, that can be purchased by districts,
can be used in grades K through Two,
and those also will be eligible for the reimbursement grants
coming up, and made available by the State School Aid Act.
And we'll talk more about that,
in a future slide coming up.
Next slide.
So system features that we're gonna be introducing,
district-selected Grade Three through Eight
benchmark assessments, to inform program improvement
and measure within-year student progress.
If they've been monitoring benchmark assessments
over the last year, we kind of ping-ponged back and forth
on what the plan is.
And what's happening now, based on
the latest state legislation, is our districts
are gonna have the opportunity to purchase
district-chosen benchmark assessments,
they can use in Grades K through Eight.
That is gonna be an assessment that you purchase locally,
and then literally the next couple weeks,
grant criteria is gonna come out.
when districts can apply for a grant.
That could provide reimbursement for the purchase
of that benchmark assessment.
And again, we have specific slides on this
later on in our time today.
But the state will be providing some funding,
to help provide the Three to Read benchmark assessment.
If you have taken advantage of this grant process
in the past, specifically for those K through Two,
or K through Three assessment,
it's gonna be a very similar process.
It's just the grade levels that apply has been expanded,
so there will be more opportunities
to get those benchmark assessments in the later grades.
Now these tools, benchmark assessments,
are given multiple times a year.
They're provided by a vendor that is chosen by the district,
and then they can be paid for, or reimbursed
from the State School Aid Act.
Next slide, please.
So this is a giant chart, and I'm not gonna read it
line by line, but this is, basically, a snapshot
of what our K through 11 Assessment System looks like.
And I'll point out a few different things.
What K through Two there, it is still required by state law,
that schools provide something in Grades K through Two.
And that can be the Michigan developed
Early Literacy and Mathematics Benchmark Assessment,
or again, it could be a locally chosen tool,
that could be used at those younger grades.
These are the tools that need to be selected
from that initial or extensive list,
that's been provided in the past, that will be part
of the documentation that we provide.
So we still need to be doing that,
either the Michigan provided ones, or locally chosen tests.
And I'll kind of break things out in Elementary,
and Middle School, and High School, as I talk through here.
In Grades Three through Five, most things
are gonna be very, very similar,
to what we've seen this year.
In Grades Three and Four, again, we have M-STEP,
and then again, that optional district-selected
benchmark assessment.
We're including it in our chart here,
because while it's not an MDE-provided assessment,
we do want to talk about it, as part of an overall system,
that districts could be using in their schools.
In Fifth Grade, we also have Science and Social Studies.
This coming year will be our second and final year
of a field test, for our Science assessment.
That's the new designed test, that's aligned
to our latest standards.
Moving forward to Middle School,
you'll see Sixth and Seventh Grade
will be the same as it was this last year.
Again, with the optional district-selected
benchmark assessment.
In the Eight Grade, you will see that we are switching
to the PSAT 8/9, as our ELA and Mathematics test.
There still is M-STEP for Science and Social Studies,
because the PSAT 8/9 does not cover those content areas.
And then again, there's the option
for the district-selected benchmark assessment.
In high school, again, we're providing the Ninth Grade
and 10th Grade PSAT option.
Then in 11th grade, you still have
the Michigan Merit Exam components out there,
with the SAT with Essay, the M-STEP for Science
and Social Studies, and then the WorkKeys
that's out there, as well.
Next slide, please.
MI-Access, this is our assessment for students
with more significant cognitive impairments,
with disabilities.
This is not changing this year, we are still providing this.
We're continuing to work on that,
and provide that for these students.
Next slide.
WIDA, WIDA is our English Learner Assessment,
for our students where English is not
their primary language.
This process is well on their way,
with screener orders, and things like that.
So this is gonna be the same as it has been
in the past, as well.
- [Kim] Now, Andy, we're gonna take,
we're gonna offer you a couple of questions here.
- [Andy] Sure.
- [Kim] We'll just do a couple.
One of the questions was: Are there any
vendor-provided assessments automatically approved?
- [Andy] Are there any vendor assessments
that are automatically approved?
- [Kim] Yes.
- [Andy] Well, later on in the slides,
for the future of us all, I'm assuming we're talking
about benchmark assessments, based on the question.
These are the assessments that are district-selected,
they're gonna use them in the higher grades,
the higher elementary and middle school.
The K through Two assessments, for the Early Literacy,
those are the tests that need to be on
either the initial or extensive list,
that we created last year, that is out there,
that we can send out again, if we haven't already.
And then in the later grades, these are gonna be tools
that are selected by the districts, based on some criteria,
that will be part of the grant application.
This criteria comes up later in the slide deck,
and actually the State School Board
just approved this criteria Tuesday.
So we'll be getting that out there real quickly.
There's nothing that's necessarily automatically approved
for benchmark assessments, for those higher grades.
But there's some criteria that folks need to consider
when they select one, and if they want to
apply for that grant criteria.
- [Kim] Great, I think we'll take one more.
Another one from the chat box is:
Will MI-Access offer Science at Fifth Grade,
or will they still take it in Fourth?
- [Andy] I will have Linda correct me, if I'm wrong,
but we are continuing with MI-Access the way it is,
until we get to a place where we can transition
our alternate assessment standards to
the new, the new Science ones.
We're gonna leave that as it is, for right now.
Linda, correct me, if I'm wrong.
- [Linda] You're correct.
- [Kim] Alright.
Great, and remember, that even though
Andy might not be addressing your question right now,
we are capturing the questions,
and we'll put them in the FAQ.
So having said that, let's move on to
the State Summative Assessments and reporting,
and Kate Cermak, who is the Test Administration
and Reporting Manager within OEAA,
has some slides to share with you.
So, Kate, are you there?
- [Kate] I am, hello, everyone.
- Perfect, perfect. - Would you,
go ahead, and send us to the next slide, please.
Okay.
Continuing on with many years of past history,
all students in Michigan will continue to take
a high-quality state summative assessment.
When we're talking about state summative assessments,
generically, these are assessments that are given
at the end of a learning cycle, to measure
what students know, and are able to do.
And the summative assessments that we provide here
are given at the end of a school year,
measuring what students know, and are able to do
for the content standards, content area standards
that they were supposed to have used in that school year.
Within Michigan, all of the students will take
one state summative assessment, to measure their progress
towards Michigan's content standards,
or other career and readiness goals.
We'll talk a little bit in the future slides,
but most students will take the M-STEP, but some students
will take the MI-Access alternate assessment.
And also,
most kids will spend no more than three to eight hours,
or less than 1% of instructional time on state assessment.
In high school, that is at the higher end
of the time range, high schoolers and 11th Grade
will spend approximately eight hours,
as well in the elementary and middle school grades,
they're gonna spend approximately three to five hours
on the state summative assessment, at the end of the year.
Now districts and schools often select other assessments,
that they administer within their organizations, and
those do, from a public perspective,
will often add to the testing time.
But for what we require, it's in
that three- to eighthour range.
Next slide, please.
So as I was saying earlier, the M-STEP
is the Michigan Student Test of Educational Progress,
and we are continuing to give.... that is given ,
to students in Grades Three through Seven,
to measure student progress on academic standards
in English Language Arts, or ELA, and Mathematics.
You'll note, I just said Grades Three through Seven,
that's gonna be one of the changes,
we'll talk about the PSAT next.
For students in Grades Five, Eight and 11,
those students will continue to take the Science,
which again, is the field test this year,
a required field test for participation purposes,
and the Social Studies assessments.
So that means, when we're talking about students
in Grade Eight, they will be, they will continue
to take M-STEP for Science and Social Studies.
This year, as Andy stated earlier, the PSAT,
which is one of the products in the SAT suite
of assessments provided by College Board,
will be given to students in place of M-STEP,
for ELA and Mathematics.
The PSAT does measure, 8/9 does measure student progress
on our standards, as well as, it will prepare students
for the SAT taken in high school.
We are continuing to offer recommended, but not required,
the PSAT 8/9, for students in Grade Nine,
and PSAT 10, for students in Grade 10.
Next slide, please.
So the Michigan Merit Exam is gonna continue
to be given to students in Grade 11, as well as
any eligible 12th Graders who,
for whatever reason, did not take
the MME as an 11th Grader.
The MME does consist of three required components.
The SAT with Essay, which measures student progress
in ELA and Mathematics standards.
This is a college entrance examination.
11th Graders will also take the M-STEP,
the Science field test, and the Social Studies test.
And they'll also take the ACT WorkKeys test,
to measure their career skills.
As mentioned earlier,
the M-STEP is our state summative assessment,
taken by most Michigan students.
And this includes, so all general education students,
and most students with an IEP, will take the M-STEP.
Some students,
whose IEP requires them .....to take one of the MI-Access assessments,
will take MI-Access.
But most students, even those with IEPs,
will take the M-STEP.
We first administered the M-STEP in the 2014-15 school year.
And since that time, I don't remember how,
what our online participation was in that year,
but this past spring, 99% of the students
tested online this past spring.
So that is really going well.
The M-STEP measures how well students
are mastering state standards.
And one of the key things that we really want to point out,
is M-STEP is developed by educators, for educators.
And when I talk about that...
teachers are involved in the item writing process,
they're involved in our committees,
our content bias review committees, as well as,
our content review committee.
So we really involve the teachers, and the educators,
in the development of the M-STEP.
The M-STEP broadly outlines what students should know
and be able to do, to be prepared for the workplace,
career training, and for college.
Next slide, please.
The M-STEP features.......
It is a new design, from the old MEAP test.
It has a modern test design, so it has far fewer
multiple choice questions, and many more problem solving
and critical thinking type questions than did former state tests..
It is a computer adaptive test, in ELA and Mathematics.
That allows us to provide a more individual test experience
for the students, as well as
more precise measurement of student learning.
And as stated earlier, the testing time
has been reduced every year,
since it's implementation in 2015, and it now takes
less than 1% of instructional time, annually.
Next slide, please.
And finally,
M-STEP does provide some actionable results.
For the online test that students take,
within 48 hours, usually within 24 hours,
schools will receive preliminary results
through the secure site,
You can go through the secure site,
and see your preliminary results for any student
that took an online test, within 48 hours
after they submitted that test.
So you can, it gives you a high level,
high level input into how the students
are doing on the M-STEP.
The final results are available before
the start of the next school year.
This year, we really see
individual level of reports earlier this week,
and most of the comprehensive aggregate reports
went out today, you'll see that in our Spotlight article.
And we expect those timelines to remain the same
in the next school year.
Parent reports are distributed to schools,
for schools to disseminate to the students
by the start of the next school year.
And one of the things to remember with the M-STEP,
while it shouldn't be used in isolation,
it can be a very powerful tool, when it is combined
with classroom work, report cards,
your local district assessments and other tools,
including those benchmark assessments
we were talking about earlier.
So when you look at all of those pieces together,
it can offer a comprehensive view
of student progress and achievement.
And I believe, the next slide will be for Linda.
So, if we wanted to
stop and take some questions - Linda, it is.
We do, we have a couple questions,
and maybe it'll be you, Kate, or maybe Andy,
or Linda will chime in, depending on the question.
Anthony asks, will schools receive
five, eight and 11 Science scores?
- [Kate] Schools will receive, we will have
aggregated results for the field tests,
for the field tests, so last year and this coming up year...
....for 2018 and 2019....
there will be an aggregated district level report.
That will allow schools to, basically,
compare how they did on the Science test,
and the various claims to the state.
They will not receive individual student resuslts
for the field test.
- [Kate] Well, I'm gonna talk about MI-Access,
first of all, when we talk about our state assessment
for our students that are in special populations.
MI-Access is the alternate assessment
that Michigan provides for our students
that have significant cognitive impairment.
MI-Access is an assessment program,
that measures student progress toward Michigan's
state alternate content standards.
As most of you are aware, students are eligible
to take MI-Access when the Individualized Education Program,
or IEP team, has determined that general assessments,
even with accommodations,
are not appropriate for the student.
So the alternate assessments are administered
at three levels.
For students who have, or function as if they have
a significant cognitive impairment,
and this is really important, those students
whose instruction is most closely aligned
to the Essential Elements within,and there are three levels,
MI-Access Functional Independence, and those students
are considered to be at the higher end of
the standards are at the higher end of complexity.
The next level is our MI-Access Supported Independence,
and those are for students that are more in
the standards are more in the medium range of complexity.
And MI-Access Participation, is our MI-Access assessment
that the standards are at the low range of complexity.
And the Essential Elements, you know,
they're completely tied to our Academic Content Standards,
in Math, English Language Arts and Science.
We do have Social Studies for our FI.
Next page.
The other assessment that Michigan offers
for students in special populations,
is our WIDA Program of Assessments for English Learners.
We kind of we think about that in three categories.
We have the WIDA Screener, the WIDA ACCESS Placement Test
for newly enrolled English Learners.
Then we have the ACCESS for ELLs 2.0,
and the Kindergarten ACCESS for ELLS, to measure listening,
reading, writing, and speaking skills of English Learners.
And we also have the WIDA Alternate ACCESS
for English Learners with significant
cognitive disabilities.
These are the kids that are taking,
or would be taking MI-Access.
Next slide.
I'm gonna talk a little bit about
Nonpublic and Home-School students.
All of our nonpublic schools can administer
one of our state assessments, if they'd like to.
But it is during the same assessment window
that we offer all of our state assessments.
Home-schooled students are also allowed
to take state assessments.
What the student, the home-school student would do,
is to contact the school district in which
the student resides, to make those testing arrangements.
Just to note, that those home-school student scores
will be reported individually, and they are not included
in the district results.
Next slide.
And I think we're back to Andy.
- [Andy] Starting off, so the Interim/Benchmark Assessment,
this is, like I said earlier,
we kind of bounced back and forth
on what this is gonna look like.
But what we're moving forward with is this,
that we've gonna talk about now.
It's an optional component of our state assessment system.
The Benchmark Assessments are gonna be provided,
to provide multiple changes throughout the year,
to provide student progress indicators.
And it's gonna allow educators to have insight
into whether students are on-track to perform well
on state summative assessments.
And it can have valuable data tied to it,
to inform program improvements.
Next slide, please.
We talked about a little bit earlier in the slide deck,
there's gonna be two types of benchmark options.
Again, if we're just talking about Grades K through Two,
there is the state-developed benchmark option,
for Early Literacy and Mathematics.
That's provided through Grades K through Two,
up to three times a year.
That's something that the state provides free of cost.
Then there's gonna be the grant process,
that can provide state-reimbursement
for vendor-provided Benchmark Assessments.
This can be in K through Two, or Three through Eight.
And again, on those younger grades,
that's where you need to choose a solution from
the initial extensive list that's been out there.
And in the higher grades, you can choose an assessment
based on some criteria, that will be
in the application process.
But again, those are your Benchmark Assessments
that folks have been using.
Many folks are using products out there,
that could be your NWEA, or your iReady,
or you can use the Smarter Balanced solution through DRC,
Renaissance Learning, those are the types of assessments
that folks are looking to use in the higher grades there.
Next slide, please.
So briefly, on the Michigan Early Literacy
and Math Benchmark Assessments, these are the
assessments in Grades K through Two
that are developed by MDE with Michigan educators,
to ensure that our youngest learners
are on track for success.
They are provided at no cost, up to three times a year.
It'll be early fall, winter, and spring.
And these assessments do qualify as an initial assessment
under that Michigan Read by Grade Three law.
These are shorter assessments, but they are fully aligned
to State Standards for early and elementary grades.
And there's practice opportunities available
for students to become familiar with the system,
and what the tests look like,
those are the situations you would like to use.
Next slide, please.
This is where there's a lot of questions going on
out there, the Reimbursement Process
for these Vendor-Provided Assessment solutions.
Districts may select vendor-provided assessment options
that meet the following criteria, that's on this fact sheet
that will be posted after this webinar, on our website.
And then, 2018-19 State School Aid Act provides funding
for these, to be reimbursed for districts,
if they choose this vendor-provided option.
It can be, again, that K to Two computer adaptive,
that is in line to help improve early reading performance,
or a K through Eight benchmark assessment.
Next slide, please.
This is a little more of the weeds,
that will come out very soon.
The State Board approved the criteria just the other day.
Reimbursement will be provided based on
an equal per-pupil basis, according to available funding,
and the number of Michigan pupils
whom assessments are purchased for,
and their districts apply for the grant process.
This came out through Section 104d
of the State School Aid Act.
Applications will be out by September 1st,
and will close by November 9.
Again, these are some of the dates that tie into,
a district must figure out what they're gonna use
by October 15th, which I believe many folks
have already figured that out.
And then, the grant awards will be out
on the December State Aid payment.
And people have asked, how much money do we get per student,
well, we don't know exactly, because it depends,
like we said, on the number of students
that are part of the whole pool of applicants.
We will see, and I do think it will pay for
a good portion of cost, but we don't know the exact number.
Now, MDE must report some information to the legislature
by February 15th, so they are looking for a report.
Understandably, how many people have chosen
what assessments, and how well is it going,
things like that, so will certainly do that.
So if Linda, is Linda back on?
- Andy? - So this is.
Yeah? - Andy, this is Kim.
Sorry. - Okay, great.
Now Kim can cover Formative Assessment.
- [Kim] So I'm gonna offer a couple questions to you,
and see if we can't get rid of that echo.
So, Andy. - Great.
- [Kim] Do districts get to determine
when and how often benchmarks will be administered?
- [Andy] Yes, yes, they will.
Whatever solution you choose, let's just, you know,
you use Vendor A, and you will work with that vendor
to set up a good situation, that will work good
for your schools, based on that vendor system
and how you want it to look in your building.
So, yes, it will be locally decided,
when, and how often you administer those assessments.
- [Kim] Great.
Now here's another benchmark...
Can the Michigan Early Lit and Math Benchmarks
be used only twice, or does it have to be given three times?
- [Andy] Well, the intent of
the Read by Grade Three legislation, is that
you need to use a tool three times a year.
I know in the past, folks have used it twice,
and we would encourage that,
that folks try to work in a third time,
so you can have a mid-year touchpoint,
on how your students are doing.
So that's kind of how I would answer that question.
That would, we hope folks can move
to a three time a year solution.
- [Kim] Okay, next I have a question about
student growth percentiles, and that's when we cut off.
So, maybe I didn't notice the question right.
Will there be
SGP data released,
for PSAT,
and SAT?
- [Andy] Yes, what we're doing, we're actually using
the data from this last spring, to try to flesh out
an SGP process in Ninth Grade and 10th Grade,
to 11th Grade, so that we're prepared next year
to connect the dots between Eight Grade and 11th Grade.
So we are working on that, and that,
our goal is to have that, the new aspect coming out
after next spring's assessments.
- [Kate] Great, thank you.
So just a reminder to everybody, that we are capturing
all of the questions, and we will post
those questions and responses on the OEAA site.
Now, I get to talk about Formative Assessment.
And there is a, I'm hearing a slight delay,
so I'm hoping you're not hearing the same thing,
and I'll try not to go crazy.
What you see in front of you,
is the definition that frames Michigan's thinking about
what Formative Assessment is.
So if you'd look at your screen, and just take a second
and read that here yourself.
This came from
the CCSSO FAST SCASS group
just this past June, about a year ago.
Michigan is a member of that particular FAST SCASS
Formative Assessment for students and teachers.
So it's been deliberately developed with key words,
that are embedded in that definition.
And if you don't walk away with anything other
than thinking about Formative Assessment is a process,
Kim's a happy girl.
This is a really powerful
definition, that will help frame teacher's understanding
and administrator understanding
of what Formative Assessment is.
Next slide, please.
So one of the things, (sounds interrupting speech)
amongst all the other tasks that the department is doing,
it is helping support teachers and administrators
in their understanding of formative assessment.
We also know, that learning about
the Formative Assessment process and practices,
is best done when it occurs in learning opportunities
that are job embedded and collaborative.
And we have a,
a long-term program called FAME,
Formative Assessment for Michigan Educators,
that is doing just that.
It is providing learning team opportunities,
led by a local coach, and teams made up of local teachers,
to learn about implementation
and reflect on the Formative Assessment process.
And we just started out gearing up
for this year, our 11th year.
We have 100 new coaches, and with learning teams,
and we are returning about 150
returning coaches and teams, to the process.
If you would like to learn more about Formative Assessment,
we have a couple of websites for you to look at.
One is right on the Michigan.gov site,
slash Formative Assessment.
And if you go onto the next slide,
there'll be a particular
website for FAME.
And that is W-W-W-dot-FAME-Michigan.org,
to learn more about FAME itself.
We've been, like I said, we've been going since 2008,
we have nearly 250 coaches
for this upcoming school year.
And if you look to the right of your slide, you see
in the dark blue, where we have had FAME coaches and teams.
And so, if you represent a lighter blue area,
Kim would love to come visit you,
and talk more about FAME and start planting seeds
of Formative Assessment teams within your area.
And I think that's next,
and Linda is next.
- [Kate] I can talk about this slide.
- [Kim] Okay, great, thanks, Kim.
- [Kate] Yup.
Actually, the 2019
Assessment Schedule,
with the exception of the Grade Eight,
is very, very similar to last year.
M-STEP
for Grades Five, Eight, and 11
will have a four-week, the online will have
a four-week test window, starting that second Tuesday,
second Monday in April, and it will run for four weeks.
Grades Three, Four, Six and Seven,
there'll be an overlap week, starting the week of
April 29th, the end of April.
And that will run through the Friday before Memorial Day.
Our alternate assessment--MI-Access will run seven weeks,
the same seven weeks that M-Step runs,
so April 8th through
May 24th.
We Were talking about college,
when we were talking about the SAT,
that will be the second April,
the second..., oh, my, I'm having problems here,
the second Tuesday in February,
with a makeup day on a Tuesday, April 23rd,
with an accommodation window,
the accommodation window will be the entire time
starting on April 9th, through April 23rd.
Work Skills will be that Wednesday,
the Wednesday following the SAT,
both for the initial testing, April 10th,
and makeup on the 24th, with accommodation
testing going through that same time period,
the 10th through the 24th.
Now here, is where people will be interested,
this is the change for this year,
the PSAT 8/9 for Eighth Grade.
Because PSAT 8/9 for Eighth Grade, and SAT
are both used for accountability purposes,
they do have some fairly
rigorous stand, time standards.
So the PSAT like for Eighth Grade only,
like SAT, must be administered on April 9th.
There is though, however, a longer makeup period.
So there's a makeup period from the 10th to the 16th,
and if you're, they'll use the same test form for that,
and then there'll be makeup again, on the 23rd and 24th.
The accommodated window for PSAT 8/9 for Eighth Grade
will be April 9th through the 23rd.
So that is three weeks.
The PSAT 8/9 in Ninth Grade,
as well as the PSAT 10 in 10th Grade,
there's a little bit more flexibility this year.
Schools can choose to offer those
on the 9th, the 10th, or the 11th of April.
They have the same makeup window
as PSAT for Eighth Grade.
And this is for both 4/10 through the 16,
and 4/23 through the 24th.
The key thing that you want to keep in mind
for Grades Nine and 10, is while you can test in either
the morning or the afternoon, you do have to test
all your Ninth Graders together,
and all of your 10th Graders together.
And then I did see a question in the chat window,
about the WIDA
schedule, that is going be the same as in prior years.
That schedule, it is scheduled to start on February 4th,
and it will run through March 22nd,
this year.
And that is based on feedback from a survey,
that the EL Team put out here, from MDE put out.
It was overwhelming, that the respondents
preferred to keep that window the same as in prior years.
We do offer a number of resources, to help students prepare
for our State Summative Assessments.
Students who are taking Michigan's Early Literacy
and Mathematics Benchmark Assessments,
the MI-Access and M-STEP online,
they can access sample test questions and online practice,
through the website there on the screen.
I'm not gonna try and say it.
Stated here, it does have to be,
you do have to use a Chrome browser.
There is also additional information
on the various websites,
the W-W-W. Michigan.gov/, and then
the Early Lit, MI-Access, and M-STEP websites.
Students taking the PSAT, or SAT,
can take advantage of online practice tests,
and they can access Kahn tutorials, and again,
the URL is listed there.
And finally, there is tools available
to help prepare students for WIDA assessments,
on the WIDA site.
All of these websites will be in the
PowerPoint when it's posted.
- [Kim] We have a couple of questions.
Kate, I think this could be yours.
Can Eighth and Ninth Graders be tested in the same room?
- [Kate] For this year only.
Basically, College Board is going to be
working on some
additional improvements, now that Michigan's not
the only state that will be using PSAT
for some accountability purposes.
So they are working on
improving the number of forms and what-not.
While they can this year, it is certain
you should not plan to be able to do that in future years.
- [Kim] But, for this year?
- [Kate] Yes.
- [Kim] Yeah, okay.
Very good, thank you.
And some additional resources
for districts and buildings to access,
to help you with the testing, and the data release.
This particular document is posted within the OEAA site,
under M-STEP Summative, and what's new.
It is a
plethora of
resources and templates for you as districts to use,
to communicate your test results.
So please, look to that for assistance.
And next slide, please.
And here's some other resources.
We apologize, there's so much on the screen,
but there are a lot of things out there,
to help and support your assessment needs.
Probably starting straight out, if you don't
take the Spotlight newsletter, please do,
and there's a place for you to sign up for it.
It comes out weekly, through the school year,
and has a tremendous amount of information
on a weekly basis, that come out of the assessment
and the accountability department.
After we close, and we again, we apologize
for the techie problems today.
They were, the gremlins were working overtime.
Our website is available for you,
michigan.gov/oeaa, or you can email us
at M-D-E dash O-E-A-A @michigan.gov.
And then here's our 800 phone number, as well.
And we're available here to assist you,
and answer any question you may have.
I want to thank my colleagues here at MDE,
who were on the call today.
I want to thank the Michigan Assessment Consortium
for their support, and Kathy Humphrey,
who is helping us behind the scenes.
And of course, Kathy Dewsbury-White, the President of MAC.
And just as a reminder, we will post
the webinar on the OEAA site, along with the questions
that we've all captured from the chat box.
So you still have one more chance,
to put a question in the chat box.
And we'll get that out and on the website
as soon as possible.
And thank you, for your patience,
with all of our technical problems.
We wish you a terrific
2018-19 School Year.
Thank you, for joining us today.
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