Leveraging the Systems and Applications Being Developed by the Race to the Top Assessment Consortia to Advance Teaching, Learning and Assessment in Content Areas Other Than English Language Arts and Mathematics SBAC CCSS
- Author(s):
- Siegfried, Juliette
- Publication Year:
- 2013
- Source:
- Paper presented at the Invitational Research Symposium on Science Assessment, June 2013
- Document Type:
- Paper
- Page Count:
- 18
- Subject/Key Words:
- SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC), Interoperability, Test Creation, Science Education, Common Core State Standards (CCSS), ETS K-12 Center
Abstract
Both Smarter Balanced and PARCC are developing a series of digitally based system components that will be made available to states at the consortium level over the next few years. Based on the separate consortium timelines for development and implementation of these new systems, the K-12 Center at ETS has been developing two papers, one for each consortium, that give overviews of these new systems. The current paper, which is focused on Smarter Balanced, and the second paper, which will be focused on PARCC, will explain the goals and objectives of each consortium and how the emerging assessment systems will support not only the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in English language arts and mathematics but how stakeholders in other content areas can leverage these systems to prepare students for college and career more effectively. Both of the consortia’s systems are centered on the concepts of multi-tenancy and interoperability.