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Summative Assessment Frameworks English Language Arts and Mathematics Alaska Measures of Progress English Language Arts Summative Assessment Framework The Alaska English Language Arts Standards is a set of specific, rigorous expectations that build students’ skills across grades in reading and analyzing a variety of complex texts, writing with clarity for different purposes, and presenting and evaluating ideas and evidence. The standards are designed to develop a logical AMP progression of fluency, analysis, and application, moving students toward college and career readiness. The Alaska Measures of Progress Building on the Alaska English Language Arts Standards, test assessment is a development for the AMP assessment is focusing item computer-based development on broader skills and strategies rather than assessment for grades individual standards and discrete skills—a method more reflective 3-10 aligned to the of both the holistic approaches teachers use to teach and the Alaska English ways students learn. This document includes information about Language Arts and the content emphases and the item specifications of AMP. While Mathematics documents such as these are typically created for the teams of Standards (adopted in test developers and content specialists who write and review test 2012). questions, they can also provide helpful information for teachers. The Summative Assessment Framework combines test development documents and adapts the information for use by educators. The Framework provides an overview of the assessment for each grade, using tables to identify accompanying Claims and thoroughly define Targets, including statements of the evidence required. The Summative Assessment Framework The AMP Summative Assessment Framework shows the percentage and Relative Emphasis for Claims and Targets for the summative assessments. The AMP Summative Assessment Claims and Targets Frameworks for both Mathematics and English Language Arts Claims are broad (ELA) do three very specific things: statements about 1. Organize the standards around big ideas (Claims). A Claim student mastery of the is a broad statement that outlines the outcomes that standards. demonstrate mastery of the standards. Targets are groups of 2. Describe the specific skills required of students in order related standards that to be successful on AMP through Targets. Targets are can be measured. groups of related standards. 3. Create a content emphasis to form a bridge between standards, assessment, and instruction. This bridge can help educators analyze how a lesson or unit engages a student’s cognitive process and what level of cognitive rigor (Depth of Knowledge) it requires. Alaska Department of Education & Early Development 1 Claims The Claims are the broadest categories of knowledge, skills, and abilities that can have inferences drawn about them. These broad statements outline outcomes that demonstrate mastery of the standards. In ELA, Claims contain several foci that concentrate on particular skills or areas of the larger content. The distribution of texts and items is relatively equal among the foci for each Claim. There are three Claims in English Language Arts that will be assessed by the AMP: Claim 1: Reading (60-65%). Students can read closely and analytically to comprehend a range of increasingly complex literary and informational texts. The reading section of the test is divided approximately equally between literary texts from different genres and informational texts that cover a broad range of academic and non-academic topics. Claim 2: Writing (25-30%). Students can produce effective writing for a range of purposes and audiences. While AMP will not require students to compose text for the 2014-2015 school year, students will be required to revise, organize, and edit examples of writing, among other tasks. Because students during the 2014-2015 school year are not required to compose text, not all writing standards are addressed in this assessment year. Claim 3: Listening (10-15%). Students can employ effective speaking and listening skills for a range of purposes and audiences. Listening will not be assessed this year, but in the future will make up approximately 10-15% of the test. For the 2014-2015 school year, approximately 65% of the test will be from Claim 1 and approximately 35% of the test will be from Claim 2. Targets The Alaska English Language Arts Standards are organized into Content Domains and Anchor Standards, which are the same across all grades, and grade-specific standards indicated by a number. The numbered standards are the most specific level and define what students should understand and be able to do. Targets (or Assessment Targets) break the Claims down into Blueprint groups of similar standards. Each Target within a Claim is followed by evidence statements, which outline the skills students need to A test blueprint is master. Arranging standards into Targets more accurately reflects used by test how students learn and teachers teach. For example, as students creators to ensure interact with a novel, they use skills related to multiple standards. that multiple forms They consider the author’s use of vocabulary and figurative of the test cover language in addition to analyzing the theme. The Claims are built the same content from Targets, which are drawn from groups of the Alaska i h Standards. In addition, groupings of standards are given for each Target. Alaska Department of Education & Early Development 2 Although the numbered standards are listed with the Targets and Evidence Claims, the test blueprint cannot be derived by counting up the number of times a particular standard is listed. There are cases Statements where part of a standard is in one Target, and another part of the Specific, observable standard is in another Target. While not all Targets will be activities that equally emphasized in the test, all of the content described by provide students an the standards is important. Some of the content in a Target may opportunity to show also be reflected in another Target, or the content in a Target in mastery of a Target. the current grade may be a critical foundation skill for success in subsequent grades. Thus, attempts to pattern instruction on the perceived or actual numbers of items in a test may not adequately serve students’ needs. In Claim 1, Targets are divided between reading literary text and reading informational text. Although many of the skills are similar, different text types have different features which lead to different Targets and evidence requirements. In Claims 2, and 3, not all Targets for each Claim will be included in the machine-scorable portion of the test, or in the summative assessment. For example, Claim 3, Targets 1-3, address speaking, which cannot currently be reliably assessed in a machine-scorable, objective fashion. Many of the Claim 2 Targets address text composition, which is not included in the machine-scorable portion of the assessment. Assessing at the Target level, rather than the individual standard level, makes it possible to highlight student understanding through a more meaningful and holistic grouping. Individual standards, while important, are impossible to sufficiently measure with limited testing time. By assessing at the Target level, it is possible to highlight student understanding of the connected material contained in the standards through this meaningful grouping. Targets are drawn from one or more of the numbered standards and are accompanied by descriptions of evidence required, or evidence statements. These evidence statements are used to guide item writers in creating test questions that will give students the opportunity to demonstrate mastery of that Target. For example, for Grade 3, Target 2: Central Ideas, one evidence statement is, “The student will identify and/or sequence key events in a text” (Grade 3, Claim 1, Target 2, Evidence Statement 2). Relative Emphasis The focus, coherence, and rigor of the Alaska Standards are captured through the emphases of High, Medium, or Low on particular Targets, as shown on the Summative Assessment Framework. Relative Emphasis is related to the frequency with which items aligned to that Target would appear on an item-adaptive test. It should NOT be interpreted as a basis for making curricular decisions. Targets with a Low Relative Emphasis should be considered important for instruction because they may include skills associated with Medium or High Targets in the same grade, or they may be important building blocks and are key to success in later grades. For example, Target 6: Text Structures & Features—Relate knowledge of text structures, genre-specific features, or Alaska Department of Education & Early Development 3 formats (visual/graphic/auditory effects) to obtain, interpret, explain, or connect information within text has Low Relative Emphasis. However, the skills in Target 6 are important for students to locate and organize the information needed to build reasoning and identify evidence from a text, which are skills identified as having a High Relative Emphasis in Target 4: Reasoning and Evidence—Make an inference or provide a conclusion and use supporting evidence to justify/explain inferences. Depth of Knowledge DOK The Summative Assessment Framework also identifies the Depth of Knowledge is a cognitive rigor expected of students for the Targets by providing way to categorize the a Depth of Knowledge (DOK) level. DOK offers a common cognitive complexity of language to understand "rigor," or cognitive demand, in a content standard, a assessments, as well as curricular units, lessons, and tasks. By Target, or a test using DOK, tasks can be categorized according to the complexity question. of thinking required to successfully complete them. The categories are defined below: DOK 1: Recall & Reproduction Tasks at this level require recall of facts or rote application of simple procedures. An ELA example is memorizing the spelling of words or direct meaning of vocabulary words. DOK 2: Skills and Concepts Tasks at this level require more than one mental step and expect students to apply knowledge to compare, organize, summarize, or predict. An ELA example is using context to identify the meanings of words or phrases. DOK 3: Strategic Thinking Tasks at this level require the use of planning and evidence to support more abstract thinking. An ELA example is analyzing interrelationships among concepts, issues, or problems. DOK 4: Extended Thinking Tasks at this level involve the synthesis of information from multiple sources, often over an extended period of time, or the transfer of knowledge from one domain to solve problems in another. The DOK in the Framework is provided as a general reference for the projected maximum DOK of items on AMP. Typically, machine-scorable items are DOK 1, 2, or 3 as supported by the content being measured and by the complexity of the text. DOK 4 is generally reserved for performance tasks such as composition. The maximum DOK of items is typically determined by the depth of cognitive complexity suggested by the content standards. While this is the maximum DOK for summative test items, it Alaska Department of Education & Early Development 4 should not be interpreted as a limit to the Depth of Knowledge for instructional activities. When assessments are used in a high-stakes environment, it would be unfair to include items that tap into higher levels of DOK than indicated by the state’s content standards. Similarly, in order to accurately measure achievement for all students, some items will be included at lower DOK levels than indicated by the state’s content standards. For example, if a standard said, “Students will be able to jump over a three-foot-high obstacle,” mastery could be measured by determining if students were successful in jumping over something three feet high. Students who were unsuccessful at three feet could have their performance measured by including obstacles of lower heights, to provide information for possible remediation. However, when receiving instruction for this activity, the students should practice jumping over obstacles at different heights, starting off with lower heights and building up to heights greater than three feet. Furthermore, it would be unfair to have the actual test be to jump over something five feet high, since the expectation of the standard is three feet. Alaska Department of Education & Early Development 5 How to Read This Document: This document is organized by grade. An excerpt from Grade 3 is provided as an example. Grade: the grade level the Claim: a short description of Framework describes. the Claim that summarizes its %: the proportion of the machine- main topic Target: Targets in ELA scorable part of the assessment describe an overall theme of a that will be drawn from each Claim group of related standards. Grade 3 English Language Arts Claim 1: Reading Students can read closely and analytically to comprehend a range of increasingly complex literary and informational text. Relative Standards Goal Focus Target Emphasis/ % DOK Comments 1. Key Details Given an inference or conclusion, use explicit details and implicit Literary information from the text to support the inference or conclusion provided. RL-1 2 Medium 60-65% Text Evidence Required 1. The student will identify text evidence (explicit details and/or implicit information) to support a GIVEN inference or conclusion based on the text. Goal DOK: the maximum Focus: information on the types of Standards: a list of the Depth of Knowledge for texts the students will engage with standards which are addressed assessment suggested by the and for what purpose by the Target. Target and its associated standards Alaska Department of Education & Early Development 6 Grade: the grade level the Framework describes Claim: a short description of the Claim that summarizes its main topic • Explanatory text describes in detail what students will have mastered to make this Claim about student learning. Focus: provides additional information on the type of texts the students will engage with (e.g. literary or informational) and for what purpose (e.g. revising or editing). Target: Targets in ELA describe an overall theme of a group of related standards. ● Targets are followed by statements of Evidence Required, describing the types of things a student could do to demonstrate mastery of the skills that contribute to the indicated Target. Items may address more than one Evidence requirement. Standards: a list of the standards which are addressed by the Target. The references to the standards show how the Target is connected to the Alaska Standards. Goal DOK: the maximum Depth of Knowledge for assessment suggested by the Target and its associated standards Relative Emphasis: categorizes Targets as High, Medium, or Low emphasis for item development. However, this should not be interpreted as a reflection of or suggestion for a pattern of emphasis for instruction. ● The Relative Emphasis column may also include comments about the tested content specific to the machine-scorable part of the assessment. %: the proportion of the machine-scorable part of the assessment that will be drawn from each Claim. Again, this should not be interpreted as a reflection of or suggestion for a pattern of emphasis for instruction. Alaska Department of Education & Early Development 7 Grade 3 English Language Arts Claim 1: Reading Students can read closely and analytically to comprehend a range of increasingly complex literary and informational text. Relative Goal Focus Target Standards Emphasis/ % DOK Comments 1. Key Details Given an inference or conclusion, use explicit details and implicit information from the text to support the inference or conclusion provided. RL-1 2 Medium Evidence Required 1. The student will identify text evidence (explicit details and/or implicit information) to support a GIVEN inference or conclusion based on the text. 2. Central Ideas Identify or summarize central ideas, key events, the sequence of events, or the author’s message or purpose presented in a text. Evidence Required RL-2 2 High 1. The student will determine or summarize a theme, main idea, or author's message presented in a text. 2. The student will identify and/or sequence key events in a text. 3. The student will identify the author's purpose in a text. Literary Text 3. Word Meanings 60-65% Determine intended meanings of words, including multiple meanings of academic/tier 2 words, based on context, word relationships, word structure (e.g., common roots, affixes), or use of resources (e.g., beginning dictionary), with primary focus on determining meaning based on context and the academic tier/2 vocabulary common to complex texts in all disciplines. Evidence Required RL-4; L-4; 1. The student will determine the meaning of a word or phrase based on its context in a 2 Medium L-5c literary text. 2. The student will determine the intended meaning of academic/tier 2 words and domain/specific/tier 3 words in a literary text. 3. The student will use resources to determine the correct meaning of an unknown word or phrase in a literary text. 4. The student will use Greek or Latin word parts to determine the correct meaning of an unknown word or phrase in a literary text. Alaska Department of Education & Early Development 8 Grade 3 English Language Arts Claim 1: Reading Students can read closely and analytically to comprehend a range of increasingly complex literary and informational text. Relative Goal Focus Target Standards Emphasis/ % DOK Comments 4. Reasoning and Evidence Make an inference or provide a conclusion and use supporting evidence to justify/explain inferences (e.g., character development/actions/traits; first- or third-person point of view; theme/author’s message or purpose). RL-3; RL-6; Evidence Required 3 High RL-9 1. The student will form a conclusion about a literary text or texts and identify details within the text or texts that support that conclusion. 2. The student will make an inference about a literary text or texts and identify details within the text or texts that support that inference. 5. Analysis Within or Across Text Examine or compare relationships (literary elements: setting, conflict, dialogue, point of view, characterization) within or across texts. Evidence Required RL-3; RL-6 3 Low Literary Text 1. The student will analyze the relationships among literary elements (dialogue, setting, conflict, Claim 1 cont. character actions/interactions, point of view) across two different texts. cont. 2. The student will analyze the relationships among literary elements (dialogue, setting, conflict, 60-65% character actions/interactions, point of view) within one text. 6. Text Structures & Features Relate knowledge of text structures, genre-specific features, or formats (visual/graphic/auditory effects) to obtain, interpret, explain, or connect information within text. Evidence Required RL-5; RL-7 3 Low 1. The student will determine how the overall structure of a text impacts its meaning. 2. The student will analyze or interpret why the author structured elements within the text in a certain manner and the impact of that structure on meaning. 7. Language Use Interpret use of language by distinguishing literal from non-literal meanings of words and phrases used in context. Evidence Required RL-4; L-5 3 Low 1. The student will interpret the literal and nonliteral meanings of words and phrases used in context and analyze their use in the text. 2. The student will determine the relationships of words and phrases used in context and analyze their use in text. Alaska Department of Education & Early Development 9

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