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June 2, 2017 | WDE Assessment Updates | Volume 5, Issue 20
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The WDE would like to thank everyone involved with a successful PAWS administration! Preliminary PAWS results are now available for the 2016-2017 administration on the PAWS ORS. A recorded webinar training on how to use the ORS is available here.
Please remember these are preliminary and confidential results. The official WDE review of assessment results for District Superintendents is tentatively scheduled from June 23 through July 7.
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Campuses have three options to choose from for the 2017-2018 ACT administration. We will soon post a survey for campuses to complete. Only campuses that have 11th grade students will be asked to choose one of the three options on the survey. |
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Click here to view the 2017-2018 Assessment Calendar.
 We will update the new WY-TOPP page on the WDE website, in addition to sending newsletter updates, as we receive more information regarding the new State Assessment System.
Test the System Day: Sept. 5, 2017
Fall Standards Based Interim (SBI-optional, grades 3-10): Oct. 23, 2017 - Nov. 17, 2017
Winter Standards Based Interim (SBI-optional, grades 3-10): Jan. 16, 2018 - Feb. 9, 2018
Modular Interims (SBM-optional, grades 1-10): Available All Year
Standards Based Summative (SBS, grades 3-10): April 16, 2018 - May 11, 2018
Click here to view the 2017-2018 Assessment Calendar.
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 The ACT WorkKeys National Career Readiness Certificate® assessments and credential will be updated to ensure ongoing relevance and alignment to the changing skill requirements of today’s jobs. The updated assessments will continue to measure the same core set of broadly relevant career readiness skills that have historically been measured by the assessments.
As part of the new ACT WorkKeys National Career Readiness Certificate assessment, you can expect the following key changes:
- The updated assessments will be delivered on a new and improved assessment delivery platform
- Certificated will become available to national users in PDF format at no additional cost
- Spanish translation will become available to national users
- New branding of assessment names and improvements
WorkKeys Applied Math (replaces Applied Mathematics)
34 items
55 minutes (both paper and online)
- New and updated item content to better match today's job skills
- Increased emphasis on specific skills
- Addition of new skills
WorkKeys Graphic Literacy (replaces Locating Information)
38 items
55 minutes (both paper and online)
- New and updated item content to better match today's job skills
- Addition of new skills
- Addition of new types of item stimuli
- New score scale
- Items have four response options instead of five
- Fewer total number of graphics in test reduces cognitive load
WorkKeys Workplace Documents (replaces Reading for Information)
35 items
55 minutes (both paper and online)
- New and updated item content to better match today's job skills
- Addition of new types of item stimuli
*You can expect to see these changes when you administer ACT WorkKeys in the spring of 2018. Additional information will be provided during the 2017-18 school year
*If you or your school administers ACT WorkKeys outside of the Wyoming Department of Education contract, these changes will impact you beginning this summer. Please ensure that you are informed of these changes by reviewing the information posted on the ACT WorkKeys News & Announcements site.
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June 2: Preliminary PAWS results available in TOMS
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June 6-8: WIDA Professional Learning Retreat in Laramie
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July 7: ACT Aspire individual student reports and aggregate reports available in portal
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July 28: ACT School, district, and state aggregate reports delivered
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September 5: WY-TOPP Test the system day
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October 23 - November 17: WY-TOPP Fall Interim window
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