Bookmark Standard Setting and Louisiana Louisiana has a long history - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Louisiana has a long history of Bookmark Standard Setting

• LEAP
• iLEAP
• GEE
• EOC
• Alternates (LAA 1 and ELDA)

Louisiana administers the following assessments

• LEAP 2025 (grades 3-8 ELA, mathematics, science, social studies; Algebra I, Geometry,

English I, English II, Biology, US History)

• LEAP Connect/LAA 1 (3-8 and 11 ELA and mathematics, grades 4, 8, 11 science)
• English Language Proficiency Test (ELPT)

Bookmark Standard Setting and Louisiana

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• Computer-based tests (CBT) have been administered at high school since 2007.
• Since 2017, LEAP 2025 tests in ELA, mathematics, science, and social studies grades 3-8

are administered as

• CBT to students in grades 5 through 8, and
• CBT or paper-based tests (district choice) to students in grades 3 and 4.
• Beginning in 2018, new LEAP Connect (alternate) and ELPT are administered as CBT.

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Louisiana: Computer-based Testing

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Task: Setting performance standards for 6 grade levels on a compressed timeline Challenges:

• Compressed timeline
• Multiple vendors/new relationships
• Budget
• Staffing
• Proofing, printing, shipping

Moodle had been used during the PARCC standard setting.

• Louisiana had no direct, previous experience with using Moodle.
• Louisiana had a long history of paper-based bookmarking.

Social Studies Standard Setting Summer 2017

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Security

• No loose papers, booklets
• Participant access to materials (before, during, after)

Environmentally friendly

• OIB, CR-OIB, Standards, ALDs, Process Evaluations, Judgments

Cost efficient and time saving

• Printing and shipping
• Prework organized and available for panelists

Organized

• Participants have what they need, when they need it
• Time spent on process rather than processing
• Changes can be made immediately

Moodle Advantages for Louisiana

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Not intuitive No Physical Placement of Bookmarks Bandwidth

Moodle Challenges for Louisiana

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US History standard setting will occur later this summer. Moodle will be used again. Moodle was used to collect data for a contrasting groups study earlier this spring to inform a pre-standard setting policy workgroup. Science standard setting to occur in summer 2019 for grades 3 through 8 and Biology. Contact information: jan.sibley@la.gov

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