SAGE Training Test Purpose
The purpose of the Utah SAGE Training Tests is to familiarize students and teachers with the design, format, procedures, and any necessary accessibility feature used for interacting with all of the different types of items found in the SAGE Summative assessments. Every school should also use these tests to certify that their local technology configuration can deliver SAGE Summative assessments. Administering the training tests via the secure browser allows schools to determine whether their network and hardware can successfully administer live operational tests this spring.
These tests are aligned to the Utah Core Standards according to their individual grade-span and represent both the variety in difficulty and item format that students may see on the SAGE Summative assessments. Some students may have difficulty with some of the content aligned to higher grades within the grade span of each training test; nevertheless, this should not interfere with students’ ability to interact with an item for its intended training purpose. If an item appears to be too difficult, encourage your students to experiment with the tools, choose the best answer and move on to the next item.
Schools are encouraged to have students take the appropriate training test prior to the administration of SAGE
Summative; however, each LEA/school may decide how it wants to use the training tests with its students.
The training tests do not include an item for each of the aligned Core State Standards that will be measured by the operational assessments. The training tests will NOT provide scores for students and should NOT be used to measure students’ content knowledge.
Each content test will contain items aligned to the indicated content area and grade span below. The SAGE
Writing training test will provide students with an example stimulus, prompt, response mechanism.
The training tests are divided into separate grade bands and content areas in the following manner:
 Math o Math Grades 3-4 o Math Grades 5-6 o Math Grades 7-8 o Math Grades HS (High School)
 Science o Science Grades 4-6 o Science Grades 7-8 o Science Grades HS (High School)
 Language Arts and Literacy o Reading, Language, and Listening Grades 3-5 o Reading, Language, and Listening Grades 6-8 o Reading, Language, and Listening Grades 9-11
 Writing o Writing Grades 3-5 o Writing Grades 6-8 o Writing Grades 9-11
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This is the initial release of the training site and it is expected that enhancements may be made in the coming months. These changes may include:
Writing Training Tests
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Removal of unnecessary function buttons from the writing editor.
Reading, Language, and Listening Training Tests
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The presentation of items on the Reading items may be enhanced.
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TTS will be added for the Editing tasks.
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On the Listening items, it is possible to speak an associated item at the same time the listening stimulus is playing.
Math Training Tests
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Alignment of item stems with bullets may be enhanced.
All Training Tests
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Tutorials will be enhanced and a tutorial tool will be available outside the training site that includes all tutorials with audio.
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Text to Speech is available to all students. The functionality of this feature may be enhanced in the future.
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Braille Training Tests are coming soon.
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American Sign Language videos for the ELA Listening questions are coming soon.