OSA Web Conference Series

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OSA Web Conference Series

• MEAP and MME Science Assessment
• 2011 2012
• Office of Standards and Assessment

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MEAP Science Assessment

• As begun last year, the MEAP science test aligns
  to the K 7 Science Content Expectations.
• The elementary school MEAP spans the 95 GLCEs
  across 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grades.
• The middle school MEAP spans the 113 GLCEs across
  5th, 6th, and 7th grades.

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MEAP Science Assessment
Remember, the elementary and middle School
science GLCEs are organized under 4
Disciplines Science Processes Life
Science Physical Science Earth Science
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MEAP Science Assessment
The Science Content Expectations distribute 15
science standards across the 4
Disciplines Science Processes ? 3
standards Life Science ? 4 standards Physical
Science ? 4 standards Earth Science ? 4
standards
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MEAP Science Assessment
The elementary school MEAP science test has 48
operational items plus 12 field test Items. The
middle school MEAP science test has 53
operational plus 12 field test items. As always,
the field test items are not scored
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MEAP Science Assessment
Every standard has a least 1 GLCE assessed.
The operational items are distributed across
the 15 standards using a representative sample.
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MEAP Science Assessment
The GLCEs assessed are selected at random among
all GLCEs available within a standard No GLCE
within a grade span is any more important than
any other GLCE in regard to selection
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MEAP Science Assessment
A test form is divided into 2 parts, with half of
the test items in each part. Both parts of a
form present items across all 15 standards
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MEAP Science Assessment
Both the elementary and middle school MEAP
science test will 5 forms a school will use 1
of the 5 forms Some of operational items are the
same across the 5 forms, while some of the
operational items are different
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MEAP Science Assessment
All test items are multiple choice having 4
answer options. Each item is worth 1 point. The
2011 2012 MEAP science test design is the same
as used last school year.
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MEAP Science Assessment
The MEAP science test date is Oct 19th, with
opportunity to schedule following make-up dates
through Oct 28th
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MME Science Assessment
Yes, the MME for science for the 2011 2012
will change, slightly. The MME for science will
add 3 operational items and subtract 3 field test
items in other words, a students score will be
based on 3 more items, from 32 to 35.
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MME Science Assessment
As you know, the MMEfor science assess 5
disciplines Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science,
Physics, and Science Processes. The latter
discipline has the same content expectations for
each of the other 4 subjects
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MME Science Assessment
An independent quality review of the MME for
science, conducted by Norm Webb, from the
University of Wisconsin, found that OSA can
improve the MME by adding a few more items that
aligned to the Reflection, and Social
Implications content expectations from the
Science Processes discipline.
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MME Science Assessment
With this slight design change, the MME for
science will still include 20 science items from
the ACT, now 35 operational items align to the
content expectations across the 5 disciplines,
and now 14 non-scored field test items.
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MME Science Assessment
The total number of test items, across the ACT
plus the OSA-prepared operational and field test
items, will remain the same as last year,
however, 69.
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MME Science Assessment
Background on MME test design. As mentioned,
the design of the MME for science assessrs
student performance across 5 disciplines, where
Science Processes consist of separate assessment
area along with Biology, Chemistry,
Earth Science, and Physics.
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MME Science Assessment
Separating out Science Processes,
leaves Biology with 4 assessed
standards, Chemistry with 3 assessed standards
(C2 C3, having few expectations, were
combined)
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MME Science Assessment
Earth Science with 4 assessed standards,
and Physics with 4 assessed standards (P4 was
split in P4a and P4b, having many expectations)

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The Science Process discipline has 1 standard
with 2 parts, Inquiry Reflection and Social
Implication. The 20 ACT items align to the
Inquiry content expectations. The Science
Processes items that OSA prepares align to the
Reflection and Social Implications content
expectations.
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MME Science Assessment
This school year, the MME will consist of 6
general issue forms, 1 make-up form, and 1
emergency form. Other than having all unique
items, the make-up and emergency forms will
follow the same design as the general issue
forms.
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The general issue forms will all have the same
set of 18 common operational items, while each of
the 5 forms will have a unique set of 17
items. The common item sets as well as each
unique item set represent the science disciplines
across the assessed standards
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The 14-item field-test sets are also unique for
the 5 general issue and make-up forms Outside
the addition of the 3 Reflection and Social
Implication operational items and the cut of 3
field test items per form, the MME has followed
the same design since Spring 2009.
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Office of Standards and Assessment
Rodger H. Epp - Sr. Assessment Development
Coordinator Science - Office of Standards and
Assessment (OSA) - 517-373-1931 -
eppr_at_Michigan.gov