Lynn Liebenrood, Dillon District Four Director of Student Services, gave some general information to board members on the S.C. Ready test that will be given to grades 3-8.
Liebenrood highlighted the following:
* The assessment will not be timed.
* The ELA test will be a two-day test.
* Students are not allowed to use dictionaries or thesauruses during either session of the ELA test.
* Rulers, protractors, and reference sheets are not needed for any items on the spring 2016 mathematics.
* For grades 6-8 mathematics, the test will be divided into two sections to be administered in one day. The first section is a “calculator” section; the second is a “no-calculator” section.
* The first-year exemption for ELLs that has applied in past years for statewide ELA testing in grades 3-8 will also apply for the SC READY ELA test.
The S.C. Ready item types include the following:
* ELA & Mathematics – Grades 3-8 – Selected Response (SR) Item type – Students select their responses from a list of possible answer options. Some of these items may be multi-select items, where students will be prompted to select more than one response option (e.g., “Choose two answers” or “Select ALL…”). The multi-select items may have 5 or 6 answer choices.
* ELA – Grades 3-8 – Evidence-Based Selected Response (EBSR) Item type – These are two-part items. Students first read a piece of text or passage and choose the best answer from the answer choices. Students are then asked to support their response with evidence from the text – e.g., select multiple evidence statements, place multiple steps in correct sequence, place multiple punctuation marks correctly, etc. In order to receive credit for a correct response, students must answer both parts of the item correctly.
* ELA Session 1 only – Grades 3-8, Test-Dependent Analysis (TDA) item type – Students read a piece of text or passage and draw upon that text for their extended written responses – i.e., support their responses with evidence from the text.
* Mathematics – Grades 6-8 – Gridded Response (GR) Item type – For paper/pencil testers, students will grid a numeric response (gridded response) on their answer document.
* ELA – Grades 3-8 & Mathematics – Grades 6-8 – Technology Enhanced (TE) Item type – For online testers only, students interact with the item (in DRC INSIGHT) to provide their response – e.g., drag and drop, hot spot*, graphing, etc. Comparable SR items will replace TE items on the paper/pencil tests.
She presented the board members with the S.C. Ready Draft test design.
Liebenrood said that eleventh graders will take Workkeys and ACT.
Liebenrood Gives Dillon Board General Information On S.C. READY Test
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