June 1, 2018 | WDE Assessment Updates | Volume 5, Issue 64
 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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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 4. Appropriate school district personnel will also be able to see results in the Online Reporting Systems (ORS) starting September 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.
 This is a reminder that AIR Ways will close on June 22, 2018. If campuses and districts want to see this year's results from Interims and Modulars, please log in to AIR Ways before June 22.
Test Deliver System (TDS-modulars included)
○closed 6/15
TIDE
○closed 6/18
Modular Previewing System
○closed 6/15
TA Certification
○closed 6/15
AIR Ways
○closed 6/22
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Wyoming educators will be setting the proficiency levels descriptors for the WY-TOPP assessments in English Language Arts grades 9-10, mathematics grades 9-10, and the legacy science for grade 10. The PLD meeting will be held in Cheyenne on June 19-20, 2018.
 WY-TOPP standard setting will occur July 10-12
Wyoming educators will be setting the proficiency standards for the WY-TOPP assessments in English Language Arts grades 3-10, mathematics grades 3-10, and the legacy science for grade 10. The standards setting meeting will be held in Cheyenne on July 10-12, 2018.
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Wyoming educators will participate in a science item rubric validation for the WY-TOPP assessment for grades 4, 8, and 10. The rubric validation will be held in Cheyenne on June 21-22, 2018.
Rubric Validation is the process of reviewing student responses from field tested items to ensure that the scoring of each item is working properly. Educator committees, facilitated by AIR staff, will review samples of these responses to verify the scoring of each item. If any issues are discovered, changes to the rubric can and will be made.
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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 Rubric Validation
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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)
2018-2019 ASSESSMENT CALENDAR
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