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- New Jersey’s New State Assessments
- A Summary of New Test Design and Administrative Features for Grades 5 –
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- NEW JERSEY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
- DIVISION OF EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS AND PROGRAMS
- OFFICE OF STATE ASSESSMENTS
- NOVEMBER 16, 2007
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- New Jersey will implement a series of changes to its statewide
assessments, starting with grades 5 through 8 in 2007-2008. Notable features include:
- More Language Arts Literacy (LAL) reading passages in grades 5-8
- Shorter reading passages and more diverse content
- Two LAL writing prompts in grades 5-8
- New LAL writing prompt
- Two days of mathematics testing grades 5-7
- New math item type: short constructed response
- Spanish versions of test at grades 5-8, all content areas
- Testing later in the school year
- GEPA becomes NJ ASK8
- Formative assessments resources
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- To provide more information about student performance
- To consolidate multiple programs under one structure
- To increase diversity and rigor of test content
- To ‘demystify’ assessment through professional development and formative
assessment tools
- To satisfy state’s NCLB requirements
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- Align state assessments to the New Jersey Core Curriculum Content
Standards;
- Embed field test items in the operational test for all content areas
and, thus, vary the testing
experience for students.
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- Grades 5 and 6
- May 5 – 8, 2008
- Day 1 – Monday, May 5, 2008 – Language Arts Literacy
- Day 2 – Tuesday, May 6, 2008 – Language Arts Literacy
- Day 3 – Wednesday, May 7, 2008 – Mathematics
- Day 4 – Thursday, May 8, 2008 – Mathematics
- Make-Ups
- May 12 – 15, 2008
- (same order as the regular assessment)
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- Grades 7 and 8
- April 28 – May 1, 2008
- Day 1 – Monday, April 28, 2008 – Language Arts Literacy
- Day 2 – Tuesday, April 29, 2008 – Language Arts Literacy
- Day 3 – Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - Mathematics
- Day 4 – Thursday, May 1, 2008 – Mathematics (Grade 7 only)
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Science (Grade 8 only)
- Make-Ups
- May 5 - May 8, 2008
- (same order as the regular assessment)
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- More reading passages
- More diverse content
- Shorter reading passage lengths
- New types of writing prompts
- More test items overall
- More score points overall
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- For 2008, the grades 5-8 LAL speculative writing will not include the
traditional “picture prompt.”
- Students may respond to a task that is presented through the use of a
brief passage that students will read.
The given passage will provide students with information that may
be used as a springboard for students to write a story, actual or
fictional. Students will use the
information from the passage to make decisions, solve problems, and
create original works.
- For 2009 and beyond, LAL writing tasks may include narrative tasks,
persuasive prompts, description, and tasks that require students to work
with information or a picture presented to them to develop their
composition.
- Writing tasks will require students to respond in a variety of ways
(e.g., narrative, expository, persuasive, speculative) and for a variety
of purposes, in keeping with standard 3.2 of the CCCS.
- See DOE web site for sample prompts: www.nj.gov/education/assessment/
- www.nj.gov/education/assessment/ms/samples2007/NJ07_TB_G5_SpeculativeFinal.pdf (speculative sample)
- http://www.nj.gov/education/assessment/ms/samples2007/NJ07_TB_G7_FA_SamplerFinal.pdf
(persuasive sample)
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- *”Testing time” represents actual test-taking time and does not include
directions, breaks, etc.
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- Two days of testing for grades
5-7 (One day for Grade 8)
- More items overall
- More constructed response items
- New item type - Short
Constructed Response (1 raw score
- point)
- More score points overall
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- Grade 5
- Standard to be assessed 4.1.5 B.3 “Use an efficient and accurate paper-and
pencil procedure for division of a 3-digit number by a 2-digit number.”
- Item: A gallon contains 128 ounces. Paul wants to divide 3 gallons of
apple cider equally among the 2 dozen friends at his party. How many
ounces of apple cider will each friend receive? (answer: 16)
- Note: This standard cannot be assessed with a calculator active item.
Nor could this standard be assessed with a multiple choice item as
students could multiply the answer choices by 24 until they get 384.
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- Grade 6
- Standard to be assessed 4.4.6 B.2 “Determine probability using
intuitive, experimental, and theoretical methods (e.g., using model of
picking items of different colors from a bag).”
- Item: A bag contains 5 red marbles, 8 blue marbles, and 7 green marbles.
Arturo reaches into the bag and removes one marble. What is the
probability that marble is red? (correct answers: .25, ¼, 5/20, or 25%)
- Note: SCR item allows students to express the probability in the form
with which they are most familiar.
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- Grade 7
- Standard to be assessed 4.3.7 D.2 “Solve simple linear equations
informally and graphically. Multi-step, integer coefficients only
(although answers may not be integers). Using paper-and-pencil,
calculators, graphing calculators, spreadsheets, and other technology.”
- Item: What is the value of x, if 3x-5=x+7. (Correct answer: 6)
- Note: Correct solving procedures cannot be assessed using a multiple
choice format as the test taker can merely plug the answer choices into
the given equation until he/she creates a correct mathematical sentence.
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- Grade 8
- Standard to be assessed 4.2.8B.1 “Understand and apply
transformations. Finding the
image, given the pre-image and vice-versa.”
- Item: Point P has the coordinates
(-1,2). What are the coordinates
of its image if it is translated 4 units to the left and then reflected
over the x-axis? Correct
answer: (-5,-2).
- Note: Without having answer
choices from which to choose, this item tests a higher level of understanding and cognitive
development for this CPI.
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- Science assessment includes four parts – each part includes 15
multiple-choice items and one open-ended item
- Each multiple choice item is worth one point; each open-ended item is
worth up to three points.
- Each open-ended item is scored using an item-specific rubric
- Life Science – 40% of the test
- Physical Science – 30% of the test
- Earth Science – 30% of the test
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- Harcourt Learnia – online formative assessment program with diagnostic
and benchmark assessments that allow teachers to focus on specific NJ
Core Curriculum Content Standard, Strands, and Cumulative Progress
Indicators (CPIs)
- Distractor analysis helps identify impediments to learning
- Continuity between formative and summative assessments that guide
classroom instruction
- Professional development courses offered to participating districts
during the entire school year
- See http://newjersey.learnia.net
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- Spanish version of the NJ ASK 5-8 2008 will be available in all content
areas – Language Arts Literacy, Mathematics, and Science (Grade 8).
- Participation/Eligibility guidelines will be forthcoming; however, districts will decide who takes
Spanish version, not NJDOE.
- No student will be required by DOE to take Spanish version.
- Spanish versions will be ordered by districts through the usual Online
Materials Survey process.
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- No changes for 2007-2008
- New test design features for grades 3 and 4 will occur in the 2008-2009
school year
- For information on the current NJ ASK 3 and 4, go to the following site:
- www.nj.gov/education/assessments/es
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- Score reporting timelines
- New standard settings to establish proficiency cut points
- Implications for AYP
- Professional development opportunities
- High school assessment initiatives
- Changes for 2008-2009
- Test Schedule for 2008-2009
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- New Jersey Department of Education
- www.state.nj.us/education/
- Office of State Assessments
- www.nj.gov/education/assessment/
- Office of Academic Standards
- www.nj.gov/education/aps
- New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards
- www.state.nj.us/education/cccs/
- National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Frameworks
- http://www.nagb.org/
- Measurement, Inc.
- www.measinc.com/njask
- Learnia
- http://newjersey.learnia.net
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