current reality

Current Reality

• Local assessment questions don’t clearly match PARCC expectations

• Not enough online assessments at all grade levels

• Not enough exposure to tech testing in all subjects and grade levels

Current Reality

• Local assessment questions don’t clearly match PARCC expectations

• Not enough online assessments at all grade levels

• Not enough exposure to tech testing in all subjects and grade levels

Overworked Teachers

Too Little Time

Shifting Expectations

Changing Accountability

What can Schoolnet do?

Current Reality

• Most tests use Multiple Choice, True/False, Matching or Open Response

• A few use Gridded

• So what are our other options?

Multiple ChoiceCan put up to 10 Letters for choice (A-J) or any other letters from the alphabet.

You can also determine the layout of the question-how the answers are shown.

Multiple Choice cont.For the online assessments we can currently add 8 different manipulatives or tools for each question.

You can also upload a formula reference sheet if students need specific reference materials for a question.

True/False

GriddedThe grid can have up to 8 columns. The answer can be a whole number, decimal or fraction.

Matching

Each matching question can have 18 Stems and 18 Available choices.

But it’s ONE question – so the entire matching question MUST be aligned to ONE component or outcome.

Open ResponseYou can add a spell checker or grammar checker as a student tool in the open response. (or you can keep them turned off)

You could also give them ‘rights’ to upload a file.

Those are the ones we’re using

Now let’s think about the possibilities with the newest types of questions

Inline ResponseYou can put up to 9 gaps in each question and then 9 responses (distractors) for each gap

Examples of what’s possible?

Hot Spot – Single SelectionONLINE TESTING ONLY

Upload an image

Draw hotspots on the image and align them with each question choice.

Can have up to 16 spots on the single selection hot spot question.

Hot Spot – Multiple Selection

This is much like the Single except you can select an acceptable response range. Set how many spots the student needs to select to get the answer correct.

Examples of what’s possible?

Drag and DropONLINE TESTING ONLYYou can create 8 containers and 8 draggable answer choices (the answer choices can be used more than once however)

Drag and DropFor each container you can have multiple entries and you can also set the capacity (help for students). Once the limit is reached they won’t be able to drop anything else in the container.

Click Stick Click Drop

This is virtually the same as Drag and Drop but probably a better option for students – especially the youngest ones

Examples of what’s possible?

Task

A task is merely building multiple steps to have the student complete. In this screenshot there is a gridded question (math) and then a follow up question using an open response. For a task you can use any of the previous types of questions we’ve discussed.

Audio

Audio can be incorporated into the following question types:

Multiple ChoiceTrue/FalseGriddedOpen ResponseInline ResponseMatchingHot SpotTask (except for tasks with Drag/Drop – Click Stick activities)

Work we can accomplish?

PARCC Assessments grades 3-11

Current expectations on local assessments

Solutions

• Each course/grade level creating a question implementing the new tools

• Each course/grade level creating an online test• Trying to match our assessments to our

classroom instruction