Three year assessment transition in state assessments
Year
2013
Assessments available
CMT/CAPT (required)
Testing
platform
Paper/pencil
MIST (online)
Content assessed
CMT ELA:
-Forming a general understanding
-Developing interpretation
-Making reader/text connections
-Examining content and structure
-DRP
-Editing and Revising
-Direct Assessment of Writing
CMT Math:
Combination of 25 strands that varies
by grade
-Numerical and Proportional reasoning
-Geometry and Measurement
-Working with data: probability and
stats
-Algebraic reasoning: patterns and
functions
-Integrated understandings
CAPT ELA:
-Reading for Information
-Response to Literature
-Interdisciplinary Writing
-Editing and Revising
CAPT Math
CAPT Science
-energy transformations
-chemical structures and properties
-global interdependence
Types of test items
ELA
Multiple choice
Open ended
Cloze
Prompt response
Other
Content based on
what students are
expected to have
mastered, not
necessarily grade
level instruction
Generates student
data for SPI/DPI
Math
Multiple choice
Grid-in
Open-ended
Science
Multiple choice
Open-ended
Constructed response
Curriculum
embedded tasks
2013
CT CCSS-aligned practice
assessment (optional)
Online via
MIST
-cell chemistry and biotech
-genetics, biochem, and biodiversity
Items aligned with the Common Core
Standards: Math and ELA only
Multiple choice, but
more than one
correct answer
possible
Open ended,
constructed response
Smarter Balanced
scientific pilot (invitation
only)—SW in Fall, TF in
Spring
Online via
AIR
Items aligned with the Common Core
Standards: Math and ELA only
Performance tasks
Multiple choice, but
more than one
correct answer
possible
Grade Level
expectations
Limited testing
accommodations
available for students
Not computer
adaptive
Grade Level
expectations
Piloting test items
Open ended,
constructed response
Norming student
responses
Technology-enhanced
Checking technology
capacity
Performance tasks
Exploring testing
logistics
Smarter Balanced
practice test
(voluntary)—open to all
Online via
AIR
Items aligned with the Common Core
Standards: Math and ELA only
Multiple choice, but
more than one
correct answer
possible
Open ended,
constructed response
Limited
accommodations
Grade Level
expectations
Fixed form (not
adaptive)
Not the full range of
Technology-enhanced
content in the
scientific pilot
Performance tasks
Limited
accommodations
Year
Assessments available
2014
CT CCSS-aligned
assessment (required)
CMT/CAPT Science
Testing
platform
Online via
MIST
(probably)
Online or
paper
version
Content assessed
Types of test items
Items aligned with the Common Core
Standards: Math and ELA only
Multiple choice, but
more than one
correct answer
possible
Same as past
Open ended,
constructed response
Technology enhanced
Smarter Balanced widescale pilot testing
Online via
AIR
Items aligned with the Common Core
Standards: Math and ELA only
Performance tasks
Multiple choice, but
more than one
correct answer
possible
Open ended,
constructed response
Technology enhanced
Performance tasks
Other
Some testing
accommodations
added for students
Not computer
adaptive
Generates student
data for SPI/DPI
Year
2015
Assessments available
Smarter Balanced
Assessment
Testing
platform
Online
Content assessed
Items aligned with the Common Core
Standards: Math and ELA only
Types of test items
Multiple choice, but
more than one
correct answer
possible
Open ended,
constructed response
Technology enhanced
Performance tasks
Other
Computer adaptive
Range of testing
accommodations for
students
Formative, interim,
and summative
versions, 12 week
window for
summative test
Generates student
data for SPI/DPI