Home Base IIS Webinar:
Building Your Item Bank
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Presenter: Kayla Siler, DPI Policy and
Planning Analyst
Agenda
February 13
Welcome
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: 593
3-8 Math: 11186
Algebra I/Integrated I: 2376
5 Science: 1871
8 Science: 2297
Biology: 1635
Total: 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 Items
NWEA Science Items
Grade 7: 43
Grade 8: 17
Global Geography: 131
World History: 524
American History I: 124
American History II: 517
Civics and Economics: 617
Total: 1973
Grade 3: 152
Grade 4: 633
Grade 5: 352
Grade 6: 1006
Grade 7: 880
Grade8: 659
Physical Science: 603
Biology: 1030
Chemistry: 596
Physics: 174
Earth and Environmental: 594
Science 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
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