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Implementing the Smarter Balanced Interim Assessments
Online Scavenger Hunt
 Google MEM 6700 lausd.
1) What is this Memorandum referring to? ________________________
2) Which pages and/or Attachments reference the required SBA Interim Assessment Blocks?__________________
3) Pick one grade level _______ and content area (circle) ELA
MATH
4) What is the assessment name that is required in the First Semester?___________________________
 Type into your web browser: www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/sa/sbacinterimassess.asp. Locate the 2016-17 Interim
Assessment Block Blueprints. Click on ELA or Mathematics depending on the content area you chose above.
1) Refer to question 4 above, locate the grade level and Assessment name. Which pages have the blueprint
information you need? ________________________________________________________________________
2) What claim and targets are being assessed in this IAB?_______________________________________________
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3) What other information is pertinent for you when reviewing the blueprints for your chosen IAB?_____________
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 Go to www.caaspp.org and click on the green button titled, “Smarter Balanced Interim Assessments.” Click on
Interim Assessment Viewing System. Sign in with your TOMS log in.
1) Select the Grade you chose from above. Click Next. Then select the IAB Assessment Name you chose above.
Select a form in the Test Forms section and click Next. Click on the sound icon and then click on I heard the
sound. Briefly review the questions. How do these assessment tasks and questions align to the assessments
tasks and questions you’ve observed in the classroom?_______________________________________________
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Depending on whether you are giving an IAB that requires hand scoring or not, your next step will be different.
Choose between the two checkboxes below.
 For hand scoring training go to Module 4 at this website link: http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/sa/iavideoseries.asp
1) The hand scoring training guides and exemplar documents are critical for understanding what skills, abilities and
knowledge students need to demonstrate. Have my teachers used these documents to not only calibrate their
scoring of student responses but also used them to guide their instruction and assessments in the classroom? If
so, how? If not, how would you get started and when?_______________________________________________
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 For computer scored assessments go to http://www.smarterbalanced.org/assessments/development/ and locate
and expand the Item and Task Specifications. Refer back to your blueprint to locate the claims and targets that are
being assessed on the IAB. Click on the ELA or Math Item Specification and then click on the grade level and claim if
necessary of the IAB.
1) When looking at the item specification documents, what evidence are they requiring students to respond with
that constitutes meeting standard on the claim and target questions and tasks?___________________________
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 Digital Library resources are essential for teachers aligning their instruction to the IABs. Go to
http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/sa/collectionresources.asp to identify which resources you would like to learn more
about and recommend to your teachers.
1) Which professional, instructional and digital library connections resources would you like to recommend
immediately?________________________________________________________________________________
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 Providing training and collaboration time for teachers is critical for this work to gain traction. Also, monitoring the
progress of this work is key to implementation.
1) What are some immediate next steps in leading this work? ___________________________________________
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2) What is your success criteria regarding this work?___________________________________________________
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3) How will you know that you are progressing towards your criteria for success?____________________________
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