[Factc] Seeking feedback on proposed revisions to Smarter Balanced placement agreement

[Bill Moore]

Just a quick follow-up note to say I asked Gerry for a few minutes on this week's agenda to talk about this item and answer any questions that might be coming up from your colleagues, so we'll be taking a look at it on Thursday. We've extended the time frame for feedback to February 28, so I'd appreciate it if you could share the earlier message (and attachments) again, especially with math and English faculty, and let folks know about the new deadline. Thanks!

Bill

[sent 1/10/18]
The 2017 Legislature passed a law making significant changes to the K-12 assessment requirement, including shifting the timing of the high school assessment from the 11th grade to the 10th (that was already the case in practice for English but NOT for math). This shift means we need to revisit our placement agreements, so a work group met in December to recommend changes in the language in order to maintain the agreement.
We're seeking feedback on the recommendations before we take them to our system leadership for final approval; here's a link to the document with the proposed changes:
Math: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1noQ30Umg1V41ZjisDz5VX7uw-YIhyyTS

English: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1D4oLkl-Pu7BRfFvnq4A57PK4M2AJGW9n

In addition to the recommendations the document includes a bit more background to the new law as well as a link to a  Google form for providing feedback; the deadline for input is February 28th. [updated 1/29]

To provide more detailed background information, I've attached an updated document from our original system work to review and implement this placement policy. If you're interested in more details about the assessment itself (what the levels mean; definitions of scale scores and threshold achievement descriptors, etc.), see this page on the Smarter Balanced web site<http://www.smarterbalanced.org/assessments/scores/>.

Feel free to share as widely as you'd like with colleagues who would like to provide some feedback!

Let me know if you have any questions-take care!

Bill


William S. Moore, Ph.D.
Director, Core to College Alignment & K-12 Partnerships
State Board for Community & Technical Colleges
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Olympia, WA 98504-2495
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