Home Base IIS Webinar: Building Your Item Bank

Thursday, February 13, 2014

Presenter: Kayla Siler, DPI Policy and Planning Analyst

Agenda

February 13Welcome

Assessment Admin Module in Schoolnet

Access and Functionality

What is in Item Central?

Building Your Item Bank

Overview of Item Creation using Multiple Item Types

Saving and “Sharing” Items

Submit for Review

Questions

Assessment Admin

What is in Item Central?

Classroom and Benchmark Items (Formerly in the ClassScape System)3-8 ELA: 5453 English II: 5933-8 Math: 11186Algebra I/Integrated I: 23765 Science: 18718 Science: 2297Biology: 1635Total: 25411+ (development is ongoing)

These items are split into a bank for teachers to use daily for classroom assessment purposes (Publisher = NCDPI_Classroom) and a bank that is secure at the district level for benchmark purposes (Publisher = NCDPI_Benchmark).

What else is in Item Central?

Classroom (non-secure) Science and Social Studies Assessment Items [8,600+ items]

NWEA Social Studies ItemsGrade 7: 43Grade 8: 17Global Geography: 131World History: 524American History I: 124American History II: 517Civics and Economics: 617Total: 1973

NWEA Science ItemsGrade 3: 152Grade 4: 633Grade 5: 352Grade 6: 1006Grade 7: 880Grade8: 659Physical Science: 603Biology: 1030Chemistry: 596Physics: 174Earth and Environmental: 594Science Total: 6679

How to expand Item Central

• More items in development to be added to NCDPI_Benchmark and NCDPI_Classroom spring of 2014

• More items purchased to be added by July 2014 (almost 30,000 Math and ELA items in grades K-12)

• You can CREATE and ADD your own items to Item Central!

Building Your Item Bank

Create

Item Types

Steps to Create Any Item

Demo of Creating Different Items

Submit to School

Support Documentation

Search For Support Materials Inside Instructional Materials Tab

Support Documentation (cont)

Home Base Training Support

(Home Base / DPI Website)

http://www.ncpublicschools.org/homebase/

•Access Resources and Training Materials

•Access the Home Base Weekly Newsletter and other Updates

Survey

Please take a moment to complete the survey at the link below and also provided to you in the webinar questions or chat box.

go.ncsu.edu/webinar

THANK YOU!