Assessment - Math
- Connecticut State Department of Education—Student Assessment News
- Connecticut State Department of Education Comprehensive Assessment Program Portal – This site provides access to resources for the Smarter Balanced Assessments in Mathematics and English Language Arts/Literacy, NGSS Assessments, and the Alternate Assessment.
- Connecticut State Department of Education - SAT Information/Resources
- Connecticut State Department of Education Comprehensive Assessment Program Portal: Practice and Training Tests – The purpose of these training tests is to become familiar with the system, functionality, and item types; the tests are not intended to guide classroom instruction. The training tests are designed to provide students and teachers with opportunities to quickly familiarize themselves with the software and navigational tools that they will use for the upcoming Smarter Balanced Assessments for Mathematics and English Language Arts/Literacy.
- Smarter Balanced Interim Assessments -This site provides important background information on the Smarter Balanced Interim Assessments as well as links to resources to support classroom instruction.
- Smarter Balanced Interim Assessment Classroom Activities – ELA/Literacy and Mathematics
- CT State Assessment Guide— This guide provides Connecticut-specific information about the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, testing timelines, sample test questions, impacts on students, new accountability systems and ways for parents to get involved and support their child’s learning at home. (National PTA)
- Formative Assessment Resources: Try Them Today, Tomorrow, or Sometime Soon (Smarter Balanced in collaboration with Teaching Channel)
- Formative Assessment Practices to Support Student Learning—A series of videos highlighting the four attributes in the Formative Assessment Process (Teaching Channel)
- Mathematics Performance Assessment Tasks—These CCSS aligned formative performance assessment tasks, with accompanying scoring rubrics and discussion of student work samples, are arranged by grade or mathematical strand. (The tasks for grades 3-12were developed by the Mathematics Assessment Resource Service (MARS) of the Shell Centre for Mathematical Education, University of Nottingham, England. The tasks for grade 2 were developed by the Silicon Valley Mathematics Initiative’s Mathematics Assessment Collaborative (MAC). (insidemathematics.org)
- The Mathematics Assessment Program (MAP)—materials include lessons, tasks and assessments (map.mathshell.org)
- Tchrs' Voice, a Teaching Channel blog – Tests Without Grades: Learning Moments – This blog showcases the value of students learning by mistakes. It also links directly to a 7 minute companion video, for Grades 6-12 Math, “Highlighting Mistakes: A Grading Policy” (teaching channel)
- Tchrs’ Voice, a Teaching Channel blog - Back-to-School Backpack: Think About Assessment -This blog offers many ways to think about assessment with live links to resources.