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Introduction to GlobalScholar
Performance Series for School
Implementation Teams
Jasper City Schools9.10.12
Scantron’s Testing and Assessment Division provides high quality technology-based assessment solutions for the immediate, accurate and reliable capture of student performance data necessary to impact
instruction and inform leadership.
INTRODUCTIONMission Statement
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GlobalScholar
Performance Series**Phase One Training; will allow valid, reliable local benchmark testing in reading, language
arts, and math
Achievement Series****Training to come later; will provide platform for administering local benchmarks in science
and social studies (Data Director to be used for these now)
[Skills Connection Online] for targeted instructional aids
where students need intervention
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Alabama Department of Education Role in GlobalScholar Implementation
• Selected GS through rigorous, competitive application process
• Gives all Alabama school districts free access to online formative, interim, and benchmark assessment options – announced July 31, 2012
• State assistance with implementation issues
• GS “on the ground” with full-time support in Alabama
Session Goals
– Understand the computer-adaptive testing model
– Identify best practices for testing students on PS
– Become acquainted with PS reports– Make plans for PS implementation at the
school level
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Overview of Performance Series• Online computer-adaptive assessment
– Reading (grades 2-12)
– Reading Foundations (grades K-2)
– Math (K-9th/10th grade [Integrated Geometry])
– Life Science (grades 3-8)
– Language Arts (grades 3-8)
– Algebra– Geometry
• Identifies individual student instructional level, independent of enrolled grade-level, in a given content area
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How Can Performance Series Be Helpful for My District?
• Provides diagnostic information for educators• Identifies specific needs of students• Helps determine professional development needs• Facilitates communication between parents and
educators• Provides information on sub-groups of students
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Performance Series for Informing Instruction
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Ask critical questions of
the data
Develop growth goals
Monitor progress
Organize data for easy analysis
of classroom and students
Identify class and student
successes and interventions
Determine root causes
Develop action steps
Identify school and grade
successes and interventions
Teacher/ School-based
staff
Instructional Learning Teams/ Learning
Communities
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www.performanceseries.com
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Log in to PS Site• www.performanceseries.com• Site ID: See list• Staff ID: See list• Password: See list
• OR
Log in to Demo Site• www.performanceseries.com• Site ID: 78-3190-2702• Staff ID: LC0183 (not case sensitive)• Password: alabama1 (case sensitive)
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REVIEW TRAINING RESOURCES; CLICK ON “DOCUMENTS” (far right)
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Classroom Profile
Can be used as new criteria to
organize student groups within the
classroom.
Quickly assess which students have not yet completed
testing for the current window.
Organize students by
alphabetical or scaled
score.
Suggested Learning Objectives ViewAL Course of Study, and the College Career & Readiness Standards (Common Core)
The Performance Series test is aligned to three standards documents for Alabama – College Career and Readiness Standards (Common Core), ACT standards, and the Alabama Course of Study.
Classroom Profile View
College, Career, and Readiness Standards and Alabama Course of Study
Traditional Assessments
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Normal Distribution Curve
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Add whole numbers without regrouping
Add 3-digit numbers with regrouping
Identify squares, rectangles, and circles
Determine area of prisms, cylinders, and cones
Determine mean, median and mode of a given set of numbers
Determine the probability of a simple event
Determine the graphs of functions
Determine conversions within the metric system
Compare and order numbers to 100
ILAF.8.8.8.12
Compare fractions using <, >, or =
IL.7.8.7.11/ACT.8-12.20-23.XEI.3
Solve problems using compound loci
ACT.8-12.20-23.PSD.3
Computer-Adaptive Assessments
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Sample Path for a Student
Question Number
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Scaled Score ranges from 1300
to 3700
Student begins test one grade
level below enrolled grade-
levelFuture tests begin
where last test ended
Proctoring Performance Series Assessments
• Schedule the computer lab– Determine assessment populations– Block sufficient time & computers
• Secure Site ID & Student IDs• Prepare the computers for assessing
– Turn off screen savers and pop-up blockers– Ensure the mouse and monitor on each machine are functioning
properly
• Print proctoring scripts• Ensure headphones are available at each
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Performance Series ScoresHow Performance Series scores can help gauge student achievement
• Scaled Score
• Unit Score Ranges (USR)
• National Percentile Ranking (NPR)
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Scaled Score
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Scaled ScoreScaled Score = Student to Content
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USRsUSR = Student to Unit Content
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Why is there an N/A in my report?
No test takenOR
Pending test (paused or in
progress)OR
Completed only
vocabulary portion of
Reading test
No NPR indicates a test taken outside of the testing
window.
SUPPORTContact Issue Contact Information
Performance Series Technical Support
• Browser Issues•Site functionality•Issues with delivering assessment/data source systems
District Location Controllers
•Initial Login Support•Training support•Interpretation of scores•Locating reports•General PS information and/or questions
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THANK YOU!
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