<p> Handout #1</p><p>Planning for your Assessment</p><p>Questions to Ask/Materials Needed: 1. What type of data you will be loading (ie: benchmark assessment, progress monitoring, placement, etc.) and how often will you be loading it each year?</p><p>2. What is the highest and lowest possible points and minimum passing score for the overall assessment? What color scheme will you use to represent these scores?</p><p>3. Is the overall score a Pass/Fail, Met/Not Met, or does your assessment have performance levels?  If it is Pass/Fail or Met/Not Met, proceed to question 4 i. What is the minimum and maximum or cut scores for each level? ii. What color scheme and names do you want for each level?  Will these minimum and maximum scores change from year to year? Again, this will affect your naming conventions.</p><p>4. What naming convention will you use for your assessment? Does your district already have It’s own (established) standards for naming conventions?</p><p>5. What group or family should you add this assessment to?</p><p>6. What is the scope of your assessment (District, School, or Class Level)?</p><p>7. What Type of Questions are on the Test (True/False, Scored Answers, or Multiple Choice)?  What is the minimum and maximum possible scores?  Will any of the highest possible points or minimum passing scores change from year to year? This will affect your naming conventions.  What is the minimum passing score (threshold)?</p><p>1 School Data Solutions, August 2014 Handout #1 NOTE: Typically, strands are not associated to item analysis tests, however, if your staff is ambitious, and you wish to see the strands displayed (ie: Comprehension, Vocabulary, Reading Fluency, etc.) as well as the standards, our system will accommodate both, together. Please contact Lorie MacFarlane at [email protected]. She will be happy to work with you in connecting the two types of assessments (Standard Foundational Assessment Structures and Item Analysis Structures) together.</p><p>Materials Checklist:  Naming Convention Structure - see “Naming Conventions Tips and Tricks” & “Naming Conventions – Sample Test Name, Label, and Score File Name” (sample sheets 1 & 2)</p><p> A copy of the Assessment test (pdf format works best) with the following*:  The highest and lowest possible points, the minimum passing score, and the standard(s) assigned for each question  If Multiple Choice, a list of the answer choices, identifying the correct response</p><p> A list of the Standards used for this assessment</p><p> Chronological Ordinal Chart (see sample sheet 3)</p><p> Hex Color Code Chart (see sample sheet 4)</p><p>*For Scored Answer Responses, if you have the scoring instructions you can add them, but it is not required, used, or displayed currently.</p><p>2</p>