Spotlight on Student Assessment and Accessibility
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SpotlightSpotlight on Student Assessment and Accountability What’s New Week of December 17, 2020 Wishing you a safe and happy holiday! • WIDA ACCESS Testing Window Extension Look for the • Early Literacy and Mathematics Spotlight to return Benchmark Assessments Winter 2021 Test Window January 7, 2021. • 2021 Passage-based Writing Field Test Window • Return to Learn Benchmark Assessment Data Collection Requirements Memo WIDA ACCESS Testing Window Extension • Pre-ID for SAT, PSAT, WorkKeys, M-STEP, and MI-Access In an effort to lessen the burden and logistical constraints of • MME and PSAT 8/9 for Grade 8 – conducting an in-person summative test during the ongoing Important Information pandemic, the WIDA ACCESS for ELLs and WIDA Alternate ACCESS for ELLs testing window is being expanded to the • Unassigning Students from Assessments following dates: • Pre-ID for MI-Access • Wednesday, January 27 – Friday, April 9, 2021 • Online Sessions Although materials are not anticipated to arrive in districts • Spring 2021 Initial Material Orders until January 27, opening the window simultaneously with • SAT, PSAT 8/9, and PSAT 10 the delivery will ensure educators can start testing as soon as they are able. Additional deadlines and dates—such as • ACT WorkKeys those for material returns, Accountable Students Enrolled and • M-STEP and MI-Access Functional Demographics, Answer Documents Received, Submitted Issues Independence (FI) for Answer Documents, Students Not Tested—will be changing. Additionally, districts should expect reporting dates to be shifted • MI-Access Supported Independence (SI) and as well. As those dates are solidified, they will be communicated Participation (P) to you in the Spotlight. In addition, please continue to monitor the Spotlight for news regarding potential assessment waivers. • 2020-21 “Sending Scores Back” Program for Shared Educational Entities—Applications Now Educators are encouraged to use the WIDA ACCESS Planning Available Document to think through aspects of this year’s unique assessment administration. • 2021 Michigan School Testing Conference ► Sign up for Spotlight (www.michigan.gov/mde-spotlight) and/or access previous editions Call Center: 877-560-8378 CB Corner / ACT WorkKeys / Important Dates / Contacts Spotlight on Student Assessment and Accountability December 17, 2020 Early Literacy and Mathematics Return to Learn Benchmark Assessment Benchmark Assessments Winter 2021 Test Data Collection Requirements Memo Window #COVID-19-144 The Winter 2021 Early Literacy and Mathematics A memo released December 14, 2020 from the Benchmark Assessments testing window will be Interim Deputy Superintendent Dr. William A Pearson, open January 4 – February 5, 2021. Grades K-2 provides additional information about the reporting students who tested in the fall have been automatically of benchmark assessment data as required by pre-identified to the Winter 2021 Early Literacy and Michigan’s “Return to Learn” law (Public Act 149). Mathematics Benchmark Assessment by the Office of Under this law, districts must administer benchmark Educational Assessment and Accountability (OEAA). assessments to all students in grades K-8 and report No action is necessary for students who tested in the data to the Michigan Department of Education (MDE) Fall 2020 administration, but will not test in the Winter and the Center for Educational Performance and 2021 administration. Students who did not test in the Information (CEPI). Fall 2020 administration must be pre-identified in the The memo explains the reporting requirements and OEAA Secure Site. provides districts with the information they need to The Early Literacy and Mathematics Benchmark Test comply with this law. The memo may be reviewed at Administration Manual and Online Test Directions can the Benchmark Assessment web page (www.michigan. be found on the Early Literacy and Mathematics web gov/mde-benchmarkassessments). page (www.michigan.gov/earlylitandmath) under the Current Assessment Administration section. Pre-ID for SAT, PSAT, WorkKeys, M-STEP, and MI-Access 2021 Passage-based Writing Field Test Window The Office of Educational Assessment and Accountability (OEAA) will pre-identify public school The 2021 Passage-based Writing Field Test window for students (grades 3-11)for testing in the OEAA Secure grades 3-8 opens on January 4, 2021 and remains open Site, using the Fall 2020 MSDS General Collection and until February 5, 2021. Your participation in the field test Student Record Maintenance (SRM) files submitted allows MDE to gather important information about the through 5 p.m. on January 4, 2021. SRMs are not accuracy and validity of the items on the field test. required but will be used if they have been submitted. The Pre-ID Student Report will be available at 8 a.m. The Passage-based Writing Field Test must be on January 6, 2021. taken in-person with an in-person proctor. Remote administration is not allowed. The following students will be pre-identified: For more information about how to participate in the • All students in grades 3-8 and 11 will be Passage-based Writing Field Test, go to the Passage- pre-identified for M-STEP. based Writing Field Test - Test Administration Guide on (Continued on next page) the M-STEP web page (www.michigan.gov/mstep). Call Center: 877-560-8378 (select appropriate option) for assistance with assessment or accountability issues What’s New / CB Corner / ACT WorkKeys / Important Dates / Contacts 2 Spotlight on Student Assessment and Accountability December 17, 2020 » Students will be pre-identified as online testers testing and are to be unassigned in the Secure unless they are enrolled in a school with an Site. Grade 8 students are to take the PSAT approved online waiver. Students in approved 8/9 or one of the MI-Access assessments for paper/pencil schools will be pre-identified for ELA and mathematics, based on their IEP. paper/pencil testing. » The PSAT 8/9 is one test that is administered » Individual students in online schools to both grades 8 and 9. However, in the OEAA who require a paper/pencil test may be Secure Site, the test cycle is split into two, reassigned for paper/pencil testing. Refer to PSAT 8 and PSAT 9. the document Changing the Mode (online, • All students in grade 11 in established SAT and Paper/Pencil) of Testing for Students, found ACT schools will be pre-identified for SAT and in the Pre-Identification of Students section WorkKeys. on the Secure Site Training web page (www. » michigan.gov/securesitetraining). Refer to Who Must/Can Take the MME? for guidelines on MI-Access students’ ability to » Since participation in the MI-Access take the SAT and WorkKeys. It can be found assessments is based on a student’s on the MME web page (www.michigan.gov/ Individualized Education Program (IEP), mme) under General Information. schools are expected to move such students » from the M-STEP to MI-Access Functional Schools are to unassign students who will Independence (FI), Supported Independence be taking a MI-Access assessment from the (SI), or Participation (P) assessment, as SAT test cycle by 5 p.m. on February 17, . This process also holds true if a student appropriate. Refer to the article, Pre-ID for 2021 chooses not to take the ACT WorkKeys along MI-Access, on the following page for more information. with MI-Access. This will prevent additional materials being sent to the school. • All students in grades 8, 9, and 10 in established PSAT schools will be pre-identified for PSAT 8, This is a one-time pull from MSDS for pre-identification PSAT 9, or PSAT 10 test cycles. purposes for students taking the SAT, PSAT, » When the PSAT 8/9 and PSAT 10 is WorkKeys, and M-STEP. Starting January 6, 2021, not appropriate for a student based on it is the responsibility of the district and/or school the student’s IEP, the student should be to update the Pre-ID Student Report directly on the OEAA Secure Site, by unassigning students who will unassigned from the assessment by 5 p.m. not be testing and adding new students who will be on February 17, 2021 to prevent additional materials from being sent. testing. » There is no alternate assessment to the All initial standard materials for SAT, PSAT, WorkKeys, PSAT 8/9 for grade 9 or PSAT 10. Students M-STEP, and MI-Access, as well as barcode labels in grades 9 and 10 whose IEP indicates the printed by the contractors, will be based on students PSAT is not appropriate will be exempt from who are pre-identified on the OEAA Secure Site by February 17, 2021 at 5 p.m. (Continued on next page) Call Center: 877-560-8378 (select appropriate option) for assistance with assessment or accountability issues What’s New / CB Corner / ACT WorkKeys / Important Dates / Contacts 3 Spotlight on Student Assessment and Accountability December 17, 2020 To ensure schools get the appropriate number of To ensure a student who has left the district/school is assessment materials, it is important to make sure removed from accountability calculations, the student your pre-identification is accurate by 5 p.m. on must be exited in MSDS in the Spring 2021 MSDS February 17, 2021. General Collections or in an SRM collection. Options and instructions for pre-identification of students can be found on the Secure Site Training web Pre-ID for MI-Access page (www.michigan.gov/securesitetraining) under the Pre-Identification of Students section. MI-Access is Michigan’s alternate assessment, and is designed for students who have, or function as if they have, significant cognitive impairments, and whose MME and PSAT 8/9 for Grade 8 – Important IEP team has determined that general assessments, Information even with accommodations, are not appropriate. When pre-identifying new students to the Michigan Since the Office of Educational Assessment and Merit Exam (MME), students must be pre-identified Accountability (OEAA) cannot determine which to each assessment (SAT, WorkKeys, and M-STEP students will test using the MI-Access Functional science and social studies) separately.