May 18, 2018 | WDE Assessment Updates | Volume 5, Issue 63
 The Wyoming Department of Education would like to thank every administrator, educator, and staff member who contributed to a successful administration of the spring WY-TOPP assessment. The WDE assessment team values your input, and we would appreciate your participation in our 2018 WY-TOPP administration survey. We will use the results of the survey to inform policy/procedures, manuals, and align our communication for the 2018-2019 school year to fit your needs. Please follow this link to participate in the survey.
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Administrators and teachers can expect results from the WY-TOPP Summative Assessment in early September. The Individual Student Reports (ISRs) and envelopes, to be mailed to parents, will be shipped out to schools on September 4th. Appropriate school district personnel will also be able to see results in the Online Reporting Systems (ORS) starting 9/4.
For this first year of the new assessment, results will be released a bit later due to the calibration work that takes place this summer in order to determine the cut scores for our Wyoming students. In June and July, several teacher panels will be convened to determine the Performance Level Descriptors (PLDs) and to do Standard Setting, whereby proficiency levels are defined and corresponding cutscores are set. In future years, summative results will be available earlier in the summer, by August 1st at the latest.
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Mark your calendars - more information will be shared soon.
Week of Aug. 27th
○DTC training in-person (3 around the state TBD)
○TA Webinar
○TC Webinar
Fall Webinars in early Sept. after data is released in ORS
○Webinar - How to Use Your Summative Data (for Teachers)
○Webinar - How to Use Your Summative Data (for District and School Administrators)
Fall Webinar after Fall Interim closes (closes 9/28)
○Webinar - How to use your Interim Data (for Teachers)
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 Test Deliver System (TDS-modulars included)
○closed 6/15 -9/4
TIDE
○closed 6/18 -8/20
Modular Previewing System
○closed 6/15 -9/4
TA Certification
○closed 6/15 - 8/29
AIR Ways
○closed 6/22 -9/4
*If campuses and districts want to see this year's results from Interims and Modulars, please log in to AIRWays before 6/22.
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This will be held on May 23rd from 3:30-5:00.
Join Antoinette Hallam for the second installment of the EL Quarterly webinars. This webinar will include an in depth look into Individual English Learner Plans. The components of the plan will be outlined and Antoinette will share an example of an IEL Plan. There will also be time for Q&A at the end of the presentation.
The quarterly webinars are designed to strengthen understanding of the components that must be evident within the District EL Plan, Individual EL (IEL) Plan, and identifying and serving English Learner (EL) Students.
Click here for webinar login information.
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Some districts continue to see a rise in the EL numbers of students enrolled.
How many English Learner Students are attending Wyoming Schools? How many English Learner Students are in your district? How many English Learner Students are in monitoring status? For detailed answers and information about the current and past eight years of EL student population in Wyoming, click on the following link.
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June 7th in Casper, WY or June 8th in Riverton, WY
EL teachers and EL coordinators have the opportunity to learn how the ACCESS for ELLs 2.0 Score Reports provide important information about students’ academic English language proficiency. Participants will examine the different types of reports available and each report’s function. Participants will also discuss the connection between the score reports and the WIDA ELD Standards and Assessment System, and how these reports can serve as a tool to initiate discussion about instruction. This is a great opportunity to get any questions you might have answered. Participants have the option to bring score reports or learn how to pull score reports at the workshop.
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May 23: WIDA EL Quarterly webinar 3:30 - 5:00
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June 7: ACCESS 2.0 Score Reports Workshop - Casper
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June 8: ACCESS 2.0 Score Reports Workshop - Riverton
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June 19-20: WY-TOPP Proficiency Levels Descriptors Educator Panel in Cheyenne
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June 21-22: WY-TOPP Science Content Bias and Fairness Review in Cheyenne
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July 10-12: WY-TOPP Standard Setting Educator Panel in Cheyenne
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September 4-28: WY-TOPP Fall interim window (Grades 1-10)
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January 15-February 8: WY-TOPP Winter interim window (Grades 3-10)
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January 22-February 26: ACCESS 2.0 assessment window (Grades K-12)
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January 28-March 8: NAEP assessment window (Grades 4 & 8 for selected campuses)
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March 11-April 24: WY-ALT online assessment window (Grades 3-11)
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April 2: ACT paper test day (Grade 11)
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April 2-4, 9-11: ACT online test window (Grade 11)
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April 15-May 10: WY-TOPP Spring Summative window (Grades 3-10)
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April 15-May 10: WY-TOPP Spring Interim window (Grades K-2)
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April 16-30: WorkKeys assessment window (Grades 11 & 12)
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