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Review and Approval of Diagnostic and Summative Assessments State Board of Education February 13, 2013

HB 12-1238: The Colorado READ Act

(Reading to Ensure Academic Development)

• Section 22-7-1209 (2) (a) (I) – The department shall review and

recommend to the state board reading assessments, including interim, summative, and diagnostic assessments, for kindergarten, and first, second, and third grades.

Statutory Requirements Related to Assessments

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School Finance Act HB 12-1345 Interim Assessments Diagnostic Assessments Summative Assessments

RFP contract awarded to Wireless Generation 2013-2014 school year Required for students with a Significant Reading Deficiency Optional for grades K-2 DIBELS Next DIBELS, DRA2, and PALS Assessment from the approved list If used, must select from approved list Interested districts can apply to receive software at no charge May change for 2014- 2015 school year May be used to progress monitor in addition to the interim assessment Forthcoming Request for Application (RFA) Will also be used to progress monitor Basis of the READ plan and instructional intervention

State-wide K-3 Assessments

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• Required for all K-3 students (screening to determine level of risk, progress

monitoring to track progress, and end of year outcome assessment)

• Presented to the State Board in November 2012 a proposal to keep the same three

currently approved assessments (approved through the Colorado Basic Literacy Act)

• Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS)
• Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening (PALS)
• Developmental Reading Assessment 2nd edition (DRA2)
• Recommend keeping these assessments through the 2013-2014 school year
• Request for Information (RFI) process in the fall of 2013 to make possible revisions

to the list

Interim Assessments

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• Required for all K-3 students who may have a Significant Reading Deficiency based
• n initial screening with the interim assessment
• Request for Information (RFI) and committee review
• Received 18 submissions- 9 met the criteria for recommendation to the state board
• Established criteria:
• Assesses one, or multiple, underlying skills related to the 5 components of reading
• Technically adequate by being valid, reliable, and free of bias
• User friendly so that all teachers can administer and interpret
• Demonstrate feasibility including time to assess and cost
• Measure academic skills and abilities under the practitioner’s control
• Quantitative in nature

Diagnostic Assessments

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• Recommended list for state board approval
• Curriculum Associates i-Ready
• Pearson AIMSweb
• PALS Marketplace Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening

(PALS)

• Renaissance STAR Early Literacy Assessment
• Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA) Children’s Progress

Academic Assessment (CPAA)

• Pearson Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test
• Pearson Woodcock Reading Mastery Test, 3rd edition (WRMT-III)
• Cambium Education, Inc. d/b/a Sopris Learning DIBELS Deep
• Wireless Generation Burst Reading Assessments

Diagnostic Assessments

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• Optional for K-2 students
• Request for Information (RFI) and committee review
• Received 8 submissions- 2 met the criteria for recommendation to the state board
• Established criteria:
• Measure the conceptual knowledge of reading (vocabulary, language structures, reasoning,

and literacy knowledge) as well as the procedural skills (phonological awareness, decoding, and word recognition)

• Technically adequate by being valid, reliable, and free of bias
• User friendly so that all teachers can administer and interpret
• Demonstrate feasibility including time to assess and cost
• Measure how well a student is mastering the academic standards, including the foundational

skills

Summative Assessments

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• Recommended list for board approval
• Curriculum Associates i-Ready
• Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA) MAP for Primary Grades

(MPG)

Summative Assessments

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• Department will post recommendations to the website for feedback before

March board meeting

• Notify publishers
• Publishers may appeal to the Department no later than 14 days after

notification

• State Board vote for approval in March
• Department will periodically review lists and recommend updates to the

State Board as appropriate

Next Steps

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