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PUSD Assessments (For Teachers & Staff)

Tools for Teachers from Smarter Balanced
Smarter Balanced Tools for Teachers are educator-created lessons, activities, strategies, and professional development to help tailor instruction and boost learning. Click on this link to take you to SBAC Tools for Teachers and start typing a topic, claim, target, or filter resources: https://smartertoolsforteachers.org/
Links and Resources for Tools for Teachers including an overview, information web page, videos, webinars, website demonstrations, etc. http://www.caaspp.org/ta-resources/tools-for-teachers.html
Online Practice and Training Tests are available for students, test administrators, and test examiners. It's a great opportunity for students to become familiar with the tools that are used on the CAASPP and the types of questions and performance tasks. You can use this site to take practice and training tests. Some questions require students to select one answer; others require you to type a short answer, draw a picture, or complete another type of open-ended task. Click on this link and it will take you CAASPP practice and training tests: http://www.caaspp.org/practice-and-training/index.html
To show you a major improvement of Tools for Teachers over the previous Digital Library:
  • There are a lot of resources
  • The lessons are more detailed and providing additional support for teachers
  • It has vocabulary ideas for interventions
  • There are specific ways to scaffold the lesson and how to best support through interventions your students who are significantly below
  • Student performance progressions are great conversations for PLCs
  • The links to online resources for additional practice
  • Great sample test banks
  • The list of formative strategies is great
  • The attachments are great! Nice PPTs
  • Downloadable attachments
 
CA School Dashboard
 
California School Dashboard - Background
 
Based on the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) which was passed in 2013, California has a new accountability system that is based on multiple measures. These measures are used to determine local educational agency (LEA) and school progress toward meeting the needs of their students. Performance on these multiple measures will be reported through the California School Dashboard. 
 
This new multiple measures system replaces the former Academic Performance Index (API), which was based solely on testing results, and the federal requirement to calculate Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP).

Equity is at the heart of the new accountability system and changes how accountability is measured. It aims to synthesize and make accessible a wealth of state and local data to help schools achieve better outcomes for their students. On the dashboard, student performance includes multiple measures that go beyond test scores, giving a more complete picture of a school’s progress.
 
Dashboard Reporting
 
State Performance Indicators
  • Academic Achievement in English Language Arts
  • Academic Achievement in Mathematics
  • Chronic Absenteeism (data not available until fall 2018)
  • English Learner Progress
  • Suspension Rate
 
The multiple measures system for state indicators is based on percentiles to create a five-by-five grid that produces 25 results and 5 performance levels (Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, and Red). This five-by-five grid combines Status and Change to make an overall determination for each indicator and provides equal weight to both Status and Change. Districts and Schools will receive a Performance Level color/picture for each of the State Performance Indicators above.
 
 
CAASPP Test Results for English Language Arts/Literacy & Mathematics
To view PUSD's results for the CAASPP ELA/Literacy & Mathematics, California Alternate Assessments (CAAs) for ELA & Mathematics, English Language Proficiency Assessments for California (ELPAC), California Science Test (CAST), California Alternate Assessment (CAA) for Science, and the California Spanish Assessment. 
https://caaspp-elpac.cde.ca.gov/caaspp/
Resources (Summative Assessments) link: http://www.caaspp.org/ta-resources/summative.html
Resources (Interim Assessments) link: http://www.caaspp.org/ta-resources/interim.html
 
Click here to view Test Results for California's Assessments
 
Test Results for the CAASPP
4 Ways to Use Interim Assessments
 
The Smarter Balanced Interim Assessments will remain available to be administered remotely, without the use of a secure browser, through the 2020–2021 school year. Students can access interim assessment items using the mobile launchpad external icon with a Chrome or Firefox browser on their personal computers. If using an iPad device, students must use the AIRSecureTest Mobile Secure Browser external icon mobile app from the App Store instead of using the Chrome or Firefox mobile browser apps.
 Student Score Reports
Click here for more information on Embedded Universal Tools, Designated Supports, and Accommodations Video Tutorials
CAASPP Resources for Students, Teachers, and Parents
This web page provides step-by-step instructions for how to accomplish a task or activity within California's assessment programs. Instructions come in either PDF or video format.
Smarter Balanced Assessment Information
Site Coordinators and Test Administrators

2020–21 Superintendent Designation and Security Forms

For the 2020–21 CAASPP administration, the process to complete and submit the CAASPP Test Security Affidavit for users with roles that do not require access to TOMS is online and must be completed using the following link:

Users with roles that require access to TOMS and the test delivery system must be assigned access before logging on and signing security affidavits in TOMS.

 
CAST ScienceThe California Science Test (CAST) Test: California’s new state standards for science call for students to think and work like scientists and engineers—asking questions and learning through hands-on investigation and discovery.  For additional information about the new science tests and sample questions, please visit the CDE’s CAASPP Science Assessment Web page at https://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/ca/caasppscience.asp
CSA

Click here to learn more about the CA Spanish Assessment

The California Spanish Assessment (CSA) is a component of the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) System. This assessment, presented in Spanish, is available to serve the more than 1.2 million students who speak Spanish as their primary language, as well as those who are learning Spanish as an additional language. The purposes of the CSA are to

  • measure a student’s competency in Spanish reading/language arts and provide student-level data in Spanish competency,
  • evaluate the implementation of Spanish reading/language arts programs at the local level, and
  • provide a high school measure suitable to be used, in part, for the State Seal of Biliteracy 
 
 
 
Illuminate PUSD Staff Link: http://portervilleschools.illuminateed.com/
One page fact sheets on California Assessments. Great and to the point resources for families, students, and educators alike! 
 
Click here to view one-page fact sheets on all of California's Assessments
PUSD Educators, feel free to play with the CERS sandbox to see the great reporting features it offers! It's similar to what you will see when we upload student group rosters and you administer CAASPP Interim Assessments such as IABs. Not only can you quickly identify students who are near approaching the standard but you can also get a snapshot of which targets and claims your students have an opportunity to grow in.