Colorado Assessment Inventory by The Colorado Education Initiative

Colorado Assessment Inventory Commonly Used Assessments in Colorado

The following questions are designed to gather information regarding commonly used assessments in the state. Please only give responses for assessments that are being used in your district and leave the rest blank. Following this page, you will be given the opportunity to provide information about additional assessments used in your district beyond the ones included here.

1. For grades PreK5, how many times are the following assessments given in a school year by grade? Select response from drop down menu for each assessment used or leave BLANK if given assessment is not used. Preschool Measures of

Kindergarten

1st Grade

2nd Grade

3rd Grade

4th Grade

5th Grade

Acuity

Galileo

Academic Progress (MAP) Scantron Achievement Series Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy (DIBELS) Diagnostic Reading Assessment (DRA2) Phonological Awareness Literacy Other Screening (PALS) Teaching Strategies GOLD HighScope Child Observation Record (COR)

Colorado Assessment Inventory 2. For grades 612, how many times are the following assessments given in a school year by grade? Select response from drop down menu for each assessment used or leave BLANK if given assessment is not used. 6th Grade Measures of

7th Grade

8th Grade

9th Grade

10th Grade

11th Grade

12th Grade

Acuity

Galileo

PSAT

Please EXPLORE

PLAN

Accuplacer

Advanced

Academic Progress (MAP) Scantron Achievement Series

Placement (AP) Exams International Baccalaureate (IB) Exams

Colorado Assessment Inventory 3. Are the following assessments given to all students or only to a particular group of students (in any grade PreK12)? Select "given to all students" or all that apply. Leave BLANK if given assessment is not used. Given to all students

Atrisk students

Students

Special

struggling

Education

academically

students

ELL students

Gifted students

Other group of students

c d e f g

Scantron Achievement Series

c d e f g

Dynamic Indicators of Basic

c d e f g

Teaching Strategies GOLD

c d e f g

HighScope Child Observation

c d e f g

Acuity

c d e f g

Galileo

c d e f g

PSAT

c d e f g

EXPLORE

c d e f g

PLAN

c d e f g

Accuplacer

c d e f g

Advanced Placement (AP)

c d e f g

Measures of Academic Progress (MAP)

Early Literacy (DIBELS) Diagnostic Reading Assessment (DRA2) Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening (PALS)

Record (COR)

Exams International Baccalaureate (IB) Exams If assessment is given to a different group of students please specify.

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Colorado Assessment Inventory 4. What content areas are the following assessments measuring (in any grade PreK12)? Select all that apply to each assessment used or leave BLANK if given assessment is not used. English Reading

Math

Writing

Science

Social Studies

Language Proficiency

World

Other Subject

Languages

Area

c d e f g

Teaching Strategies GOLD

c d e f g

HighScope Child

c d e f g

Acuity

c d e f g

Galileo

c d e f g

PSAT

c d e f g

EXPLORE

c d e f g

Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) Scantron Achievement Series Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy (DIBELS) Diagnostic Reading Assessment (DRA2) Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening (PALS)

Observation Record (COR)

PLAN

c d e f g

Other Accuplacer

c d e f g

Advanced Placement (AP)

c d e f g

Exams International Baccalaureate (IB) Exams If used in "other subject area" please specify.

Colorado Assessment Inventory 5. Who is given results from each of the assessments listed below? Select all that apply to each assessment or leave BLANK if given assessment is not used. District

School

Administrators

c d e f g

Counselors/Academic

Parents

Students

c d e f g

Teaching Strategies GOLD

c d e f g

HighScope Child

c d e f g

Acuity

c d e f g

Galileo

c d e f g

ACT

c d e f g

PSAT

c d e f g

EXPLORE

c d e f g

PLAN

c d e f g

Accuplacer

c d e f g

Advanced Placement (AP)

c d e f g

Measures of Academic

Teachers

Advisers

Progress (MAP) Scantron Achievement Series Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy (DIBELS) Diagnostic Reading Assessment (DRA2) Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening (PALS)

Observation Record (COR)

Exams International Baccalaureate (IB) Exams Is there anyone else that receives assessment results?

Colorado Assessment Inventory 6. Do the results of the following assessment come with an interpretive guide and/or instructional guidance? Select all that apply to each assessment used or leave BLANK if given assessment is not used. Interpretive guides

Instructional guidance

Neither

CSAP/TCAP

c d e f g

CELA

c d e f g

Measures of Academic

c d e f g

Teaching Strategies GOLD

c d e f g

HighScope Child

c d e f g

Acuity

c d e f g

Galileo

c d e f g

ACT

c d e f g

PSAT

c d e f g

EXPLORE

c d e f g

PLAN

c d e f g

Accuplacer

c d e f g

Advanced Placement (AP)

c d e f g

Progress (MAP) Scantron Achievement Series Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy (DIBELS) Diagnostic Reading Assessment (DRA2) Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening (PALS)

Observation Record (COR)

Exams International Baccalaureate (IB) Exams

Colorado Assessment Inventory 7. For what purposes are the results of the following assessments used in your district? Select all that apply for each assessment used or leave BLANK if given assessment is not used. To measure To measure student end To inform

student

ofyear/endof

instructional

progress

course

practice?

within the

mastery of

school year?

content

To evaluate teachers?

To evaluate To determine

To inform

To provide

instructional

student

improvement feedback to

programs?

placement?

plans?

students?

standards? CSAP/TCAP

c d e f g

CELA

c d e f g

MAP

c d e f g

Scantron Achievement

c d e f g

DIBELS

c d e f g

Series

DRA2

c d e f g

Other PALS

c d e f g

Teaching Strategies GOLD

c d e f g

HighScope COR

c d e f g

Acuity

c d e f g

Galileo

c d e f g

ACT

c d e f g

PSAT

c d e f g

EXPLORE

c d e f g

PLAN

c d e f g

Accuplacer

c d e f g

AP Exams

c d e f g

IB Exams

c d e f g

Colorado Assessment Inventory Additional Districtwide Assessments

The following questions are designed to gather information regarding any additional DISTRICTWIDE assessments currently used in your district that were not listed or identified in the previous questions on this survey. Please name any other districtwide assessments used in core content areas, as well as the following areas: 1) World languages, 2) Visual Arts, 3) Dance, 4) Music, 5) Drama/Theater, 6) Health, 7) Physical Education, and 8) Vocational Education. Please also include any districtwide assessments used in the preschool setting. EXCLUDE any progress monitoring assessments.

1. Does your district currently administer other assessments beyond the Please ones previously discussed?

j Yes k l m n j No k l m n

Colorado Assessment Inventory Additional Districtwide Assessments 01

The following questions are designed to gather information regarding any additional DISTRICTWIDE assessments currently used in your district that were not listed or identified in the previous questions on this survey. Please name any other districtwide assessments used in all areas, including:1) Reading, Writing and Communicating; 2) Science; 3) Math; 4) Social Studies; 5) World languages; 6) Visual Arts; 7) Dance; 8) Music; 9) Drama/Theater; 10) Health; 11) Physical Education; and 12) Vocational Education. Please also include any districtwide assessments used in the preschool setting. EXCLUDE any progress monitoring assessments.

1. What is the assessment used? Select name from drop down menu or fill in blank below. 6 If assessment name not found in above drop down list, please specify:

2. Who created the assessment? Select all that apply. c Colorado Department of Education d e f g c District and/or school personnel d e f g c Another district d e f g c BOCES d e f g

c Community college or university d e f g

c Assessment vendor d e f g

c Other (please specify) d e f g

3. Please select all that apply to the administration and scoring of this assessment. c Multiple choice d e f g

c Constructed response d e f g c Essay d e f g

c Performance observation d e f g c Portfolio d e f g

c Computer administered d e f g c Computer adaptive d e f g c Computer scored d e f g c Hand scored d e f g

c Oneonone with a teacher/assessor d e f g

Colorado Assessment Inventory 4. What is the typical length of testing time per student (each time given and for each subject area)? Select one. j Less than 30 minutes k l m n j 30 minutes to 1 hour k l m n j More than 1 hour k l m n

j Please describe if testing time varies (for example, either by content area or grade). k l m n

5. How many times is the assessment given in a school year by grade? Select one Other response per row or leave BLANK if assessment is not used in a given grade. 1

Preschool

j k l m n

Kindergarten

j k l m n

1st Grade

j k l m n

2nd Grade

j k l m n

3rd Grade

j k l m n

4th Grade

j k l m n

5th Grade

j k l m n

6th Grade

j k l m n

7th Grade

j k l m n

8th Grade

j k l m n

9th Grade

j k l m n

10th Grade

j k l m n

11th Grade

j k l m n

12th Grade

j k l m n

Colorado Assessment Inventory 6. Is the assessment given to all students or only to a particular group of students (in any grade PreK12)? Select "given to all students" or all that apply. c Given to all students d e f g c Atrisk students d e f g

c Students struggling academically d e f g c Special Education students d e f g c ELL students d e f g

c Gifted students d e f g

c Other group of students d e f g

Please specify if given to other group of students.

7. What content area(s) is the assessment measuring? Select all that apply. c Reading d e f g c Math d e f g

c Writing d e f g

c Science d e f g

c Social Studies d e f g

c English Language Proficiency d e f g c World Languages d e f g c Visual Arts d e f g c Dance d e f g c Music d e f g

c Drama/Theater d e f g c Health d e f g

c Physical Education d e f g

c Vocational Education d e f g c Other Subject Area d e f g

Colorado Assessment Inventory 8. Who is given the results of this assessment? Select all that apply. c District Administrators d e f g

c School Administrators d e f g c Teachers d e f g

c Counselors/Academic Advisers d e f g c Parents d e f g

c Students d e f g

Is there anyone else that receives assessment results?

9. Do the results of this assessment come with an interpretive guide and/or instructional guidance? Select all that apply. c Interpretive guide d e f g

c Instructional guidance d e f g c Neither d e f g

10. For what purposes are the results of the assessment used in your district? Select all that apply. c To inform instructional practice? d e f g

c To measure student progress within the school year? d e f g

c To measure student endofyear/endofcourse mastery of content standards? d e f g c To evaluate teachers? d e f g

c To evaluate instructional programs? d e f g c To determine student placement? d e f g c To inform improvement plans? d e f g

c To provide feedback to students? d e f g

Colorado Assessment Inventory 11. If properly used, how effective do you believe the results of the assessment CAN BE for the following purposes? Select one response per row. Ineffective

Somewhat Effective

Effective

Very Effective

No Opinion

To inform instructional

j k l m n

practice? Other To measure student

j k l m n

To evaluate teachers?

j k l m n

To evaluate instructional

j k l m n

progress within the school year? To measure student endof year/endofcourse mastery of content standards?

programs? To determine student placement? To inform improvement plans? To provide feedback to students?

Colorado Assessment Inventory Schoollevel Assessments

One final question about SCHOOLLEVEL assessments.

1. Does the district or your BOCES provide any framework or protocol for school or classroomlevel endofyear/endofcourse assessments in the following subjects? Select all that apply or "none of the above." c Social Studies d e f g c Science d e f g

c World Languages d e f g c Visual arts d e f g c Dance d e f g c Music d e f g

c Drama/Theater d e f g c Health d e f g

c Physical Education d e f g

c Vocational Education d e f g c None of the above d e f g