CONNECTICUT STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION State Board of Education Update on Student Performance First Analysis of Smarter Balanced Results 2014-15 September 2, 2015 CONNECTICUT STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Kudos CSDE Staff for a Successful Implementation! Academics : Assessment, Curriculum/Instruction Performance : Collections, Analysis, Psychometrics Information Technology Communications 2 CONNECTICUT STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Questions • How did Connecticut students perform on the 2015 Smarter Balanced assessments in English Language Arts (ELA)/Literacy and Mathematics? • How do results on these assessments compare to those on the Nation’s Report Card (NAEP)? • How did students from historically underperforming subgroups (i.e., our most vulnerable students) perform on the new assessments? • What can we learn from these first analyses? What additional analyses are planned? 3 CONNECTICUT STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
New Standards, New Assessments, New Results 4 CONNECTICUT STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Key Shifts in English Language Arts 1. Regular practice with complex texts and their academic language 2. Reading, writing, and speaking grounded in evidence from texts, both literary and informational 3. Building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction 5 CONNECTICUT STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Key Shifts in Mathematics • Greater focus on fewer topics • Coherence: Linking topics and thinking across grades • Rigor: Pursue conceptual understanding, procedural skills and fluency, and application with equal intensity 6 CONNECTICUT STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Standards for Mathematical Practice 1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. 2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively. 3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. 4. Model with mathematics. 5. Use appropriate tools strategically. 6. Attend to precision. 7. Look for and make use of structure. 8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning. 7 CONNECTICUT STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Assessment Shifts • Computer delivered • Computer adaptive • Performance task • High School assessment in Grade 11 8 CONNECTICUT STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Caution • Main result used for first analysis is single benchmark attainment i.e., percent of students meeting or exceeding achievement level expectations (level 3 or greater). • In the coming months, index scores calculated per our approved ESEA Flexibility will provide a more precise measure of student performance. 9 CONNECTICUT STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
English Language Arts 100% 90% 80% Percent of Students 70% Smarter Balanced 2015 60% Percent at Levels 3 & 4: 50% 40% NAEP Reading 2013 30% Percent at or above Proficient 20% 10% 0% 03 04 05 06 07 08 High 10 School CONNECTICUT STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
ELA/Literacy - Observations • More than 50 percent of students in every grade meet or exceed achievement level expectations • Overall across grades, 55.4 percent of all students meet or exceed achievement level expectations • The median district is around 63% (i.e., half the districts have overall rates greater than the median) • CT student performance on SB exceeds that on NAEP in grades 4 (CT rank 5) and 8 (CT rank 3) • CT SB “actual” also exceeds SB consortium “estimates” based on Field Test in all grades. 11 CONNECTICUT STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Mathematics 100% 90% 80% Percent of Students 70% Smarter Balanced 2015 Percent at Level 3 & 4: 60% Meets or Exceeds the 50% Achievement Level 40% NAEP 2013 Percent at or above 30% Proficient 20% 10% 0% 03 04 05 06 07 08 High 12 School CONNECTICUT STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Mathematics - Observations • More than 40 percent of students meet or exceed achievement level expectations in only two grades (3 and 4); in all other grades, the rate is less than 40 percent. • Overall across grades, 39.1 percent of students meet or exceed achievement level expectations. • The median district is over 44 percent (i.e., half the districts have overall rates less than the median) • There is no district in the state where Mathematics overall performance exceeds ELA. • CT student performance on SB is very similar to that on NAEP in grades 4 (CT rank 20) and 8 (CT rank 21) • SB “actual” only slightly exceeds SB consortium - wide “estimates” based on SB-Field Test. 13 CONNECTICUT STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Subgroup Achievement Gaps Persist 14 CONNECTICUT STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Smarter Balanced Results for High Needs Subgroup 100% 90% 80% 74.9% Percent of Students 70% At Levels 3 and 4 57.0% 60% High Needs 50% Non High Needs 40% 30.6% 30% *A high need student is 16.4% 20% someone who is eligible for free/reduced price meals or 10% is an English learner or is a 0% student with a disability English Language Arts Mathematics 15 CONNECTICUT STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Smarter Balanced Results by Race / Ethnicity – English Language Arts 100% 90% 75.7% 80% Percent of Students 67.3% At Levels 3 and 4 70% 60% 50% 44.4% 40% 32.8% 30.3% 30% 20% 10% 0% American Indian Asian Black or African Hispanic/Latino of White or Alaska Native American any race 16 CONNECTICUT STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Smarter Balanced Results by Race / Ethnicity – Mathematics 100% 90% 80% Percent of Students At Levels 3 and 4 66.0% 70% 60% 50.3% 50% 40% 24.9% 30% 17.3% 20% 13.9% 10% 0% American Indian Asian Black or African Hispanic/Latino White or Alaska Native American of any race 17 CONNECTICUT STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
ELA Subgroup Achievement - Observations • Across grades, approximately 1 in 3 high needs students, black students and Hispanic students meet or exceed achievement level expectations. • Conversely, 3 out of 4 non high needs students and Asian students, as well as 2 out of 3 white students meet or exceed achievement level expectations. 18 CONNECTICUT STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Mathematics Subgroup Achievement - Observations • Across all grades, between 1 in 6 and 1 in 7 high needs students, black students, and Hispanic students meet or exceed achievement level expectations. • Conversely, nearly 3 out of 5 non high needs students, 1 out of 2 white students and 2 out of 3 Asian students meet or exceed achievement level expectations. 19 CONNECTICUT STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Smarter Balanced Participation Rates 96.0% 95.8% 100% 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% English Language Arts Mathematics Participation Rate In total, approximately 267,000 students took the Smarter Balanced exams in 2015. 20 CONNECTICUT STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Smarter Balanced Participation by Grade 100% 90% 80% 70% 60% English 50% Language Arts 40% 30% Mathematics 20% 10% 0% 03 04 05 06 07 08 11 21 CONNECTICUT STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
ELA Participation by Subgroup 96.8% 96.3% 96.6% 96.2% 95.6% 100% 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% High Needs Asian Black or African Hispanic/Latino White American of any race 22 CONNECTICUT STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Mathematics Participation by Subgroup 97.0% 96.6% 96.0% 96.0% 95.4% 100% 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% High Needs Asian Black or African Hispanic/Latino White American of any race 23 CONNECTICUT STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Participation Rates • Participation rates are considered "preliminary" because they represent participation in the Smarter Balanced assessments only. • Final participation rates for the state, district, school, and student subgroups will be released after information from the Connecticut Alternate Assessment (CTAA) has been included and analyzed. 24 CONNECTICUT STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Overall Takeaways • ELA performance better than anticipated. • Math performance an area of concern. • Achievement gaps remain. • Participation strong overall except in grade 11. 25 CONNECTICUT STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Additional Analyses • Promising schools where gaps are smaller but subgroup performance is higher than in district • Performance in the middle grades • Areas of knowledge and skill 26 CONNECTICUT STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Science Results 100 90 Percent At or Above Goal 80 70 60 2013 50 2014 40 2015 30 20 10 0 Grade 5 Grade 8 Grade 10 27 CONNECTICUT STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
“Much like our annual physical where we track important health indicators, assessments are an important academic checkup. And just as we do not improve our health by practicing our physical exam, the best way to improve our results over this baseline year is not Dianna R. Wentzell by practicing the Smarter Balanced Commissioner exam. The only authentic way to improve our performance is to emphasize quality learning time and to personalize this instruction to address individual student needs.” 28 CONNECTICUT STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
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