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Category Archives: SBAC
Your Common Core Questions, Answered
During David Liben’s visit to Reno, he took some time to answer questions that educators in our community either emailed or posted on this blog. The questions are listed below with the link to the answers on Youtube. Liben, the … Continue reading
Ughh. We have a “Bug”
Many of you have been trying unsuccessfully to join the Edmodo group that houses the August 8th Professional Development sessions. This, as Edmodo has let us know, is because of a “bug” on their end which makes it impossible for … Continue reading
Common Core Test Costs
EdWeek reports on what it will costs states, per student, to administer their exams in ELA and math. For PARCC, this works out to be $29.50 per student and for SBAC, $22.50 per student. For an additional $4.80 per student, … Continue reading
Posted in SBAC
Tagged assessment, Common Core, Costs, Exam, Formative, Interim, PARCC, SBAC, Test
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Scoring Guides for SBAC Practice Tests
In May we linked to the SBAC Practice Test (here). SBAC has subsequently released scoring guides for each grade level test that you can find here. The scoring guides are available for ELA and math and include sample responses to … Continue reading
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Tagged CCSS, Common Core State Standards, Practice Tests, SBAC, Scoring Guides
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‘CCSS Tools and Resource Page’
The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortia has created a CCSS “Tools and Resource” page on their website. Readers of this blog will recognize the resources but SBAC has organized them on one page replete with helpful one-sentence descriptions. You can find … Continue reading
Common Core Practice Test Released
The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium has released practiced tests for the Common Core State Standards. There are practice tests for grades 3rd through 8th and 11th grade in math and ELA. Each test has 50 problems and there is also … Continue reading
Advancing Literacy Practice with the Common Core
The original post with these materials became corrupted and the links would not open. Thanks for your patience as we rebuilt the links. On May 20th and 21st, educators moved through a new course offering—Advancing Literacy Practice with the Common … Continue reading
Posted in Common Core State Standards, Core Task Project, Instructional Shifts, SBAC
Tagged CCSS, Close Reading, Common Core Class, NAESP, NASBE, NASSP, NEA, performance task, Wiggins
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Help Build SBAC’s Digital Library
The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium is looking for educators to join their team and help build a digital library. They hope to recruit 92 educators with expertise in any of the following: Formative assessment (e.g., collecting evidence of student learning … Continue reading
Assessment and Instruction in the Era of CCSS
University of North Carolina Greensboro professor Dr. Karen Wixson shares a webinar on the CCSS and the instructional shifts. There are several key pieces of information that are worth reviewing including: a) the “claims” are driving the assessment and not … Continue reading
Core Task Project 