Sunday, February 15, 2015

Smarter Balance Reminders - Grade 3-5

Grades 3-5 Teachers,
There are new resources available for Smarter Balanced (SB) at: http://sbac.portal.airast.org/practice-test/resources These resources would be excellent preparation tools for getting your students familiar with the Smarter Balanced Assessment interface they will be seeing this spring.

Math:
Few things to remember:
·         The Computer Adaptive Test (CAT) portion in grades 3-5 will be computer scored.
·         There is a performance task that students will be taking for their grade level.
·         No calculators or outside manipulatives can be used during the test

Things to do in preparation for the Smarter Balanced Assessment:
·         Have students take the practice test and use the Equation Editor: Equation Editor Tutorial
·         Give students an opportunity to explore the universal tools such as the highlighter, strikethrough options, and digital notepad
·         There will be different kinds of items on the CAT than just multiple choice, so students should be prepared to encounter multiple answer, grid,  manipulating objects and matching
·         Look at sample SB problems off the ODE page: http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?id=3729

English Language Arts
Things to do in preparation for the Smarter Balanced Assessment
·         Have students take the practice test
·         Give students an opportunity to explore the universal tools such as highlighter, strikethrough options, and the zoom in and zoom out buttons.
·         Look at sample SB problems off the ODE page: http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?id=3713 and http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?=3405


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