New Jersey Student Learning

Assessment

NJSLA

2019 Test Results

Standardized Assessment

State and federal laws require states to administer assessments

aligned to state standards and the results must be valid,

reliable, and comparable statewide

New Jersey has administered standardized statewide

assessments since 1978

Spring 2019: New Jersey Student Learning Assessment (NJSLA) replaced PARCC

NJ Department of Education partnered with New Meridian to provide and develop test items for NJSLA

New Meridian provides states with access to high-quality, operationally ready test content with the flexibility to design custom assessments to meet state specific needs.

New Meridian works with a wide range of expert organizations to help states develop high-quality assessment programs quickly and cost-effectively.

Similarities/Differences

NJSLA - PARCC

Online platform same

NJSLA has fewer questions than PARCC

Number of units for English Language Arts (ELA) reduced

from three to two

Reduction of 75 minutes for grade three

Reduction of 90 minutes for grades four through high school.

Number of units for Math in grades 3-5 reduced from four

to three

Reduction of 60 minutes of testing time.

Total testing time = 360 minutes

NJSLA – ELA (English Language Arts)

ELA assessments focused on reading and

comprehending a range of sufficiently complex texts

independently and writing effectively when analyzing

texts

NJSLA –Math

Assessment focused on applying skills and concepts,

understanding multi-step problems that require abstract

reasoning and modeling real-world problems with

precision and perseverance

To view samples of NJSLA tests, click on the following link:

https://nj.mypearsonsupport.com/practice-tests/

NJSLA

Performance levels

Level 1: Not yet meeting grade-level expectations

Level 2: Partially meeting grade-level expectations

Level 3: Approaching grade-level expectations

Level 4: Meeting grade-level expectations

Level 5: Exceeding grade-level expectations

Questions that Underlie

Data Analysis….

Does the data indicate any areas of curricula

weakness?

Is the Scope and Sequence of instruction appropriately paced?

Which curricular areas would benefit from on-going, sustained professional development?

Does the data demonstrate difficulty with the same

standards from one year to the next? If so, why?

Does the data support progress toward achieving

school goals?

Do students gain ground or lose ground over time?

Do other assessment results confirm NJSLA results?

Is there any organizational issues we have to address

(time, personnel, support services)

District and School Level

Data

Grade Level Results

North Caldwell

2019 NJSLA Grade-Level Outcomes

English Language Arts (ELA)

Count

of Valid

Test

Scores

Level 1

Not Yet

Meeting

Expectations

Level 2

Partially Met

Expectation

s

Level 3

Approached

Expectations

Level 4

Met

Expectations

Level 5

Exceeded

ExpectationsDistrict % ≥

Level 4

NJ % ≥

Level 4

Grade

3

97 1.0% 2.1% 10.3% 57.7% 28.9% 86.6% 50.3%

Grade

4

86 1.2% 1.2% 4.7% 48.8% 44.2% 93% 57.4%

Grade

5

98 1.0% 3.1% 5.1% 54.1% 36.7% 90.8% 57.9%

Grade

6

91 1.1% 2.2% 5.5% 15.4% 75.8% 91.2 56.2%

North Caldwell

2019 NJSLA Grade-Level Outcomes

Mathematics

Count

of

Valid

Test

Scores

Level 1

Not Yet

Meeting

Expectations

Level 2

Partially Met

Expectations

Level 3

Approached

Expectations

Level 4

Met

Expectations

Level 5

Exceeded

Expectations District% ≥

Level 4

NJ % ≥ Level 4

Grade 3 97 1% 2.1% 13.4% 48.5% 35.1% 83.5% 55.1%

Grade 4 86 0% 2.3% 18.6% 70.9% 8.1% 79.1% 51%

Grade 5 98 0% 0% 15.3% 51.0% 33.7% 84.7% 46.8%

Grade 6 91 0% 6.6% 14.3% 59.3% 19.8% 79.1% 40.5%

Cohort Comparisons Across Grade Levels

(Percent of Students who Met or Exceeded

Grade Level Expectations)

Current Grade Level (Spring 2019)

English Language Arts

PARCC 2016

PARCC 2017

PARCC 2018

NJSLA 2019

6th 89% 89.4% 90.1% 91.2%

5th 81.3% 91.5% 90.8%

4th 76.7% 93%

3rd 86.6%

Mathematics PARCC

2016PARCC

2017PARCC

2018NJSLA 2019

6th 95% 87.1% 82.4% 79.1%

5th 87.4% 85.1% 84.7%

4th

86.0% 79.1%

3rd 83.5%

District Evidence Statement

Analysis

Evidence Statement Tables and Evidence Statements describe the

knowledge and skills that an assessment item or a task elicits from

students. Evidence Statements are aligned directly to the New

Jersey Student Learning Standards

Student Score Reports

Progress

Monitoring

Additional Sources

of Data for Progress

Monitoring

Additional Student Information That

Informs Instruction/Curriculum

Measurement of Academic Progress (MAP)

AimsWeb (Grades K-2)

Achieve 3000 (Lexile Scores)

Reading A-Z (Scores by Standards)

Houghton-Mifflin Unit Tests

Unit Tests in Everyday Math

Functional Classroom Assessments

Measurement of Academic

Progress MAP

RIT Scores by Grade Level

AimsWeb Plus

AimsWebPlus

Curriculum based measure

Benchmark and progress monitoring

Brief (most tests take 1-4 minutes to administer)

Progress monitoring 1 minute per measure

Sensitive to improvement

Testing can be done individually or in groups

Data captured automatically and immediately

available for analysis and reporting.

Standardized

Aligned with standards

For each measure, there are up to 23 different test

forms provided for screening and progress monitoring.

Kindergaten and Grade 1

Measure What Students Do Score Administration

Time

Print Concepts (PC) Show understanding of purpose, use and contents of a book

Number of questions answered correctly

2-3 minutes

Letter Naming Fluency (LNF)

Say the names of visually presented letters

Number of letters named correctly

1 minute

Initial Sounds (IS) Look at four pictures and either point to the one that begins with a given letter sound or make the sound that begins the word

Number of correct letter sounds and picture names

2-3 minutes

Auditory Vocabulary(AV)

Point to the one of four orally presented words that matches an orally presented word

Number of pictures chosen correctly

2-4 minutes

Letter-Word Sounds Fluency (LWSF)

Say the sounds of visually presented letters, syllables and words

Number of sounds or words said correctly

1 minute

Phoneme Segmentation (PS)

Say the phonemes in orally presented words

Number of phonemes said correctly

2-3 minutes

Word Reading Fluency (WRF)

Read a word list aloud Number of words read correctly

1 minute

Oral Reading Fluency(ORF)

Read two stories aloud, each for 1 minute

Average number of words read correctly

12 minutes

Grade 2

Measure What Students Do Score Admin Time

Vocabulary (VO) Identify the meanings of target

words by selecting from multiple-

choice options

Number of items

answered correctly

4-7 Minutes

Reading

Comprehension (RC)

Read six passages of text and

answer multiple choice questions

about each passage

Number of items

answered correctly

15-25

minutes

Silent Reading Fluency

(SRF)

Read three stories divided into brief

sections and answer multiple

choice questions about each story

Median reading rate

of three stories

4-6 minutes

Oral Reading Fluency

(ORF)

Read two stories aloud each for 1

minute

Average number of

words read correctly

2 minutes

Assessment

AnalysisAction

Cycle of Improvement

Individual Student Action Plan

Differentiated instruction within classroom

Referral to Intervention and Referral Committee

Enrollment in Academic Tutorial and/or Title 1 Tutoring

Program

Referral for Child Study Team Evaluation

Example of I&RS

Individualized Goals

Resources for Parents http://understandthescore.org/

http://bealearninghero.org/classroom/parcc

https://www.state.nj.us/education/assessment/

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