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New Jersey Student Learning Assessment NJSLA 2019 Test Results

Standardized Assessment

• State and federal laws require states to administer assessments

aligned to state standards and the results must be valid, reliable, and comparable statewide

• New Jersey has administered standardized statewide

assessments since 1978

• Spring 2019: New Jersey Student Learning Assessment

(NJSLA) replaced PARCC

• NJ Department of Education partnered with New

Meridian to provide and develop test items for NJSLA

• New Meridian provides states with access to high-

quality, operationally ready test content with the flexibility to design custom assessments to meet state specific needs.

• New Meridian works with a wide range of expert
• rganizations to help states develop high-quality

assessment programs quickly and cost-effectively.

Similarities/Differences NJSLA - PARCC

• Online platform same
• NJSLA has fewer questions than PARCC
• Number of units for English Language Arts (ELA) reduced

from three to two

• Reduction of 75 minutes for grade three
• Reduction of 90 minutes for grades four through high school.
• Number of units for Math in grades 3-5 reduced from four

to three

• Reduction of 60 minutes of testing time.
• Total testing time = 360 minutes

 NJSLA – ELA (English Language Arts)

 ELA assessments focused on reading and comprehending a range of sufficiently complex texts independently and writing effectively when analyzing texts

 NJSLA –Math

 Assessment focused on applying skills and concepts, understanding multi-step problems that require abstract reasoning and modeling real-world problems with precision and perseverance To view samples of NJSLA tests, click on the following link: https://nj.mypearsonsupport.com/practice-tests/

NJSLA Performance levels

 Level 1: Not yet meeting grade-level expectations  Level 2: Partially meeting grade-level expectations  Level 3: Approaching grade-level expectations  Level 4: Meeting grade-level expectations  Level 5: Exceeding grade-level expectations

Questions that Underlie Data Analysis….

 Does the data indicate any areas of curricula weakness?

 Is the Scope and Sequence of instruction appropriately paced?  Which curricular areas would benefit from on-going, sustained professional development?

 Does the data demonstrate difficulty with the same standards from one year to the next? If so, why?  Does the data support progress toward achieving school goals?  Do students gain ground or lose ground over time?  Do other assessment results confirm NJSLA results?  Is there any organizational issues we have to address (time, personnel, support services)

District and School Level Data

Grade Level Results

North Caldwell 2019 NJSLA Grade-Level Outcomes English Language Arts (ELA)

Count

• f Valid

Test Scores Level 1 Not Yet Meeting Expectations Level 2 Partially Met Expectation s Level 3 Approached Expectations Level 4 Met Expectations Level 5 Exceeded Expectations

District % ≥ Level 4 NJ % ≥ Level 4

Grade 3 97 1.0%

2.1% 10.3% 57.7% 28.9% 86.6% 50.3%

Grade 4 86 1.2%

1.2% 4.7% 48.8% 44.2% 93% 57.4%

Grade 5 98 1.0%

3.1% 5.1% 54.1% 36.7% 90.8% 57.9%

Grade 6 91 1.1%

2.2% 5.5% 15.4% 75.8% 91.2 56.2%

North Caldwell 2019 NJSLA Grade-Level Outcomes Mathematics

Count

• f

Valid Test Scores Level 1 Not Yet Meeting Expectations Level 2 Partially Met Expectations Level 3 Approached Expectations Level 4 Met Expectations Level 5 Exceeded Expectations

District % ≥ Level 4 NJ % ≥ Level 4

Grade 3

97

1% 2.1% 13.4% 48.5% 35.1% 83.5% 55.1%

Grade 4

86

0% 2.3% 18.6% 70.9% 8.1% 79.1% 51%

Grade 5

98 0% 0% 15.3% 51.0% 33.7% 84.7% 46.8%

Grade 6

91

0% 6.6% 14.3% 59.3% 19.8% 79.1% 40.5%

Cohort Comparisons Across Grade Levels (Percent of Students who Met or Exceeded Grade Level Expectations)

Current Grade Level (Spring 2019) English Language Arts PARCC 2016 PARCC 2017 PARCC 2018 NJSLA 2019 6th 89% 89.4% 90.1% 91.2% 5th 81.3% 91.5% 90.8% 4th 76.7% 93% 3rd 86.6% Mathematics PARCC 2016 PARCC 2017 PARCC 2018 NJSLA 2019 6th 95% 87.1% 82.4% 79.1% 5th 87.4% 85.1% 84.7% 4th 86.0% 79.1% 3rd 83.5%

District Evidence Statement Analysis

Evidence Statement Tables and Evidence Statements describe the knowledge and skills that an assessment item or a task elicits from

• students. Evidence Statements are aligned directly to the New

Jersey Student Learning Standards

Student Score Reports

Progress Monitoring

Additional Sources

• f Data for Progress

Monitoring

Additional Student Information That Informs Instruction/Curriculum

 Measurement of Academic Progress (MAP)  AimsWeb (Grades K-2)  Achieve 3000 (Lexile Scores)  Reading A-Z (Scores by Standards)  Houghton-Mifflin Unit Tests  Unit Tests in Everyday Math  Functional Classroom Assessments

Measurement of Academic Progress MAP

RIT Scores by Grade Level

AimsWeb Plus

AimsWebPlus

 Curriculum based measure  Benchmark and progress monitoring  Brief (most tests take 1-4 minutes to administer)  Progress monitoring 1 minute per measure  Sensitive to improvement  Testing can be done individually or in groups  Data captured automatically and immediately available for analysis and reporting.  Standardized  Aligned with standards  For each measure, there are up to 23 different test forms provided for screening and progress monitoring.

Kindergaten and Grade 1

Measure What Students Do Score Administration Time

Print Concepts (PC) Show understanding of purpose, use and contents of a book Number of questions answered correctly 2-3 minutes Letter Naming Fluency (LNF) Say the names of visually presented letters Number of letters named correctly 1 minute Initial Sounds (IS) Look at four pictures and either point to the one that begins with a given letter sound or make the sound that begins the word Number of correct letter sounds and picture names 2-3 minutes Auditory Vocabulary (AV) Point to the one of four orally presented words that matches an

• rally presented word

Number of pictures chosen correctly 2-4 minutes Letter-Word Sounds Fluency (LWSF) Say the sounds of visually presented letters, syllables and words Number of sounds

• r words said

correctly 1 minute Phoneme Segmentation (PS) Say the phonemes in orally presented words Number of phonemes said correctly 2-3 minutes Word Reading Fluency (WRF) Read a word list aloud Number of words read correctly 1 minute Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) Read two stories aloud, each for 1 minute Average number

• f words read

correctly 12 minutes

Grade 2

Measure What Students Do Score Admin Time Vocabulary (VO) Identify the meanings of target words by selecting from multiple- choice options Number of items answered correctly 4-7 Minutes Reading Comprehension (RC) Read six passages of text and answer multiple choice questions about each passage Number of items answered correctly 15-25 minutes Silent Reading Fluency (SRF) Read three stories divided into brief sections and answer multiple choice questions about each story Median reading rate

• f three stories

4-6 minutes Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) Read two stories aloud each for 1 minute Average number of words read correctly 2 minutes

Assessment Analysis Action

Cycle of Improvement

Individual Student Action Plan

 Differentiated instruction within classroom  Referral to Intervention and Referral Committee  Enrollment in Academic Tutorial and/or Title 1 Tutoring Program  Referral for Child Study Team Evaluation

Example of I&RS Individualized Goals

Resources for Parents

 http://understandthescore.org/  http://bealearninghero.org/classroom/parcc  https://www.state.nj.us/education/assessment/ parents/index.shtml