Indiana Assessment Overview Wes Bruce Assistant Superintendent Indiana DOE

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Indiana Assessment OverviewWes BruceAssistant
Superintendent Indiana DOE
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Context

• 1,050,000 students K-12
• 80,000 per grade
• 293 school corporations
• 49 public charter schools
• Elected State Superintendent
• Chairs a 11 member Gov.-appointed board
• 41 million for assessment/remediation
• can only go to vendor or schools

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Academic Standards

• Major Revision in 2000
• From grade-span to grade level
• Implemented with 2002 tests (2004 GQE)
• 6 year cycle of review align with textbook
  adoption
• Implementing Core Standards
• http//dc.doe.in.gov/Standards/AcademicStandards/i
  ndex.shtml

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Indianas Assessment History

• ISTEP began in 1987 part of the A program
• 1992 New legislation (IPASS)
• 1996 1st Administration of ISTEP (Transition to
  Fall)
• 2000 1st Grad Class required to meet GQE
  standard (1997 Grade 10)
• 2002 New Standards tested 3, 6, 8
• 2003 Science for Grade 5,
• 2003 Trial ISTEP for 4, 5, 7, 9
• 2004 New Standards tested on GQE
• 2005 Science for Grade 7
• 2008 Implement Assessment System (Transition to
  Spring)

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Biology
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New Spring 3-8

• Applied Skills (Open-Ended or OE)
• Administered in March
• All four content areas
• ELA, math, science, and social studies
• Open-ended items
• Constructed-Response (CR)
• Extended-Response (ER)
• Essay
• Multiple Choice
• Administered in April / May
• Multiple Choice items
• All four content areas
• ELA, math, science, and social studies

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Applied Skills

• Since 1996 40 of points have come from Applied
  Skills (open ended/performance) items
• State Law Requires ()
• Release of all AS items, Rubrics and Scoring
  Guides
• Return a copy of AS students work (26 M
  impressions)
• Rescore of AS at parent/school request
• Basic format is consistent for all content areas
  and our end of course tests

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Online

• All ECAs are offered online or paper
• School X Course decision
• All students in English 11 will take the same
  format
• 170,000 online (65)
• 90,000 paper
• New 3-8 contract calls for 20 online MC at all
  grades
• CAPACITY?

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All Students

• NCLB
• 3-8 10 E/la Math (Sci. 5, 7, HS)
• Typical accommodations
• 1 - ISTAR in-house developed, teacher based
  ratings scale
• Uses academic standards with extensions and
  produces a score that can determine growth
• 2 current under development EAG (AZ and
  Vanderbilt)
• Struggling with Who and What

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Contact Information

• Wes Bruce
• 317-232-9054
• wbruce_at_doe.in.gov
• http//www.doe.in.gov/istep/
• 101 W. Ohio St., Suite 500, Indianapolis 46204

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