Using Acuity
to
Guide Instruction
Sandra Foster
Office of Assessment and Accountability
Leatha Williams
Office of School Improvement
Acuity
an Instructional Tool
• When our students leave school, we
want them to be college and career
ready.
• This requires mastery of both content
and skills.
CCSS Alignment
West Virginia Custom Items
• Alignment to both CCSS and NxGen CSOs
• Crosswalks developed by Office of
Instruction and WV teachers
• Learning targets may move up or down grade
levels
• Items will be checked for grade level
appropriateness
Acuity Items
• Shelf items have been aligned with the
CCSS
CCSS Rollout
• Acuity office intends to help students and
teachers with the transition.
• Student mastery will continue to be
assessed using WESTEST 2.
(last administration in spring 2014)
• NxGen Interim Assessments
Math
• Grades 4 and 5 – mini-assessments by cluster
• Math I – assessments by units
• RLA
• Greater complexity of changes due to passages
• Probably will create mini-assessments by cluster
Using Acuity to Target
Skills/Objectives
• Teacher-Created or Common
Assessments
• Benchmark Assessments
• Instructional Probes
• Data Reports on Assessments
• Instructional Resources
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How can we
address this?
532 items available for RLA 4.1.08
Students will interpret and extend the ideas in literary and
informational texts to summarize, determine story elements,
skim and scan, determine cause and effect, compare and
contrast, visualize, paraphrase, infer, sequence, determine
fact and opinion, draw conclusions, analyze characterize
and provide main idea
Common Core Language RI.4.1 Refer to details and
examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly
and when drawing inferences from the text.
WVDE State Authored
Benchmark Assessments
• WVDE Benchmarks
• WV CSOs form the basis of the
assessments
• Aligned to 21st century CSOs in
content and DOK
• Similar in style and blueprint to
WESTEST 2
Using Acuity Data to Improve
Student Performance
There is a correlation between
STUDENT PERFORMANCE
on Benchmark 3 and WESTEST 2.
Data analysis:
• Analyze benchmark data to identify areas of individual
student weakness on specific learning targets
• Differentiate instruction
– Assign Instructional Resources at the appropriate
developmental level as a re-teach tool for students
– Other instructional resources
WVDE Benchmark 1
for WESTEST 2
 check
Select Date Range: Jan 4, 2011
Instructional Probes
 Short pre-made assessments based on
spiraling CSOs
 CSO specific; based on deconstruction
of CSO skills
 Available Probes
 Math grades 3-8 & Algebra I
 RLA grades 3-8
 Utilized by teachers & interventionists
Instructional Probe Structure
Instructional Probe for Math
(Skill: Addition)
Probe Contents:
3 questions from MA.5.1.7
3 questions from MA.4.1.7
3 questions from MA.3.1.8
3 Probes for each objective/skill (Form A, B, C)
Example:
WVDE M 5 1 7 Instructional Probe – Addition, Form A
WVDE M 5 1 7 Instructional Probe – Addition, Form B
WVDE M 5 1 7 Instructional Probe – Addition, Form C
WVDE M
M (for math)
RLA (for reading/language arts)
Select Date Range: Jan 4, 2011
4th Grade Math
57 Instructional Probes
From this screen
• View or print PDF
• Assign to students
• View Test Map
TEST MAP
Reports in Acuity for
Assessments
• Group Reports:
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Summary Report
Classroom Matrix Report
Roster Report
Item Analysis Report
• View Distractor Analysis
Individual Student Reports:
• Student Summary Report
• Student Item Analysis Report
• View Distractor Analysis
Item Analysis Report
Using Acuity Instructional
Resources
• Mini-lessons which include three
sections:
• Instruction
• Guided practice
• Mini-quiz
Screens that
introduce and teach
a given skill
Guided Practice
Mini-summative
assessment to
evaluate progress
3rd and 4th Grade Math IRs
94
5th and 6th Grade Math IRs
92
3rd and 4th Grade RLA IRs
56
5th and 6th Grade RLA IRs
42
Student Name
Assigning Instructional Resources from
Reports