View course coverage: http://bit.ly/StudentGrowthCourses Laura Bresko, President and CEO of Progress Testing, presents the Student Growth and Achievement Bank at the Florida Educational Research Association conference in Gainesville, Florida. For more information call 800-930-TEST (8378) to speak with one of our knowledgeable sales representatives.

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2. Student
Growth
Item
Bank
Collaborating
Across
Districts
and
States
via
Progress
Testing’s
Student
Growth
Network

3. Student
Growth
Network
• Student
Growth
Item
Bank
• Editorial
Services
included
for
all
items
submitted
for
review
• Metadata
and
Item
Statistics
Expansion
via
Data
Exchange
• Assessment
Platform
Provider
Relationships
• ItemLogic
–
Collaborative
Item
Writing,
Editing,
and
Review
Tools

4. Student
Growth
Item
Bank
• Originally
developed
by
Hillsborough
County
Public
Schools
• Enhanced
by
Progress
Testing’s
Editorial
Team
• Additional
Items
from
Progress
Testing’s
Highly
Rigorous
Item
Pool
• Use
for:
– Student
achievement
testing
– Student
growth
testing
– Other
testing
needs

5. Student
Growth
Item
Bank
• School
Codes
for
Exchange
of
Data
(SCED)
– NCES
National
Taxonomy
• How
does
a
course
in
Hillsborough
relate
to
a
course
in
Miami-­‐Dade?
• How
does
a
course
in
FL
relate
to
a
course
in
GA
or
OH?
• SCEDs
make
the
exchange
of
items
possible

6. SCED
Codes
–
The
Problem
•
Orange
County
Course
–
Drawing
Honors
0104360
•
•
Miami-­‐Dade
Courses
–
ARTC300
DRAWING
I
ARTC330
DRAWING
II
Atlanta
Public
Schools
–
50.0311
Visual
Arts/Drawing
I
50.0312
Visual
Arts/Drawing
II
50.0313
Visual
Arts/Drawing
&
Painting
I
50.0314
Visual
Arts/Drawing
&
Painting
II

7. SCED
Codes
–
The
Problem
Solved
• OCPS,
MDCPS,
APS
courses
all
map
to
SCED
codes
05155
and
05156
• SCED
05155
Creative
Art—Drawing/Painting
Creative
Art—Drawing/
Painting
courses
cover
the
same
topics
as
Creative
Art—
Comprehensive
courses,
but
focus
on
drawing
and
painting.
In
keeping
with
this
attention
on
two-­‐dimensional
work,
students
typically
work
with
several
media
(such
as
pen-­‐and-­‐ink,
pencil,
chalk,
watercolor,
tempera,
oils,
acrylics,
and
so
on),
but
some
courses
may
focus
on
only
one
medium.
• SCED
05156
Creative
Art—Drawing
Creative
Art—Drawing
courses
cover
the
same
topics
as
Creative
Art—Drawing/Painting,
but
focus
on
drawing.
In
keeping
with
this
attention
on
two-­‐dimensional
work,
students
typically
work
with
several
media
(such
as
pen-­‐and-­‐ink,
pencil,
chalk,
and
so
on),
but
some
courses
may
focus
on
only
one
medium.

8. SCED
Codes
Mapping
• Drawing
Question
in
SGIB
–
SCED
05155
Which
of
the
following
is
achieved
by
using
strong
contrasts?
A.
depth
B.
movement
C.
distractions
D.
patterns

9. Need
for
Item
Writing
Tools
• SGIB
coverage
will
help
with
test
development
for
many
courses,
but
not
all
• Need
for
teachers
to
participate
• Need
for
an
inclusive,
collaborative
writing
and
review
process
• Support
for
a
variety
of
item
types
• Easy
importing
and
exporting

10. ItemLogic
• Best
of
Breed
• Developed
in
conjunction
with
SBAC
Content
Writing
Projects
• Used
by
State
of
CT
DoE
• Continuously
used
and
refined
for
the
past
two
years
• Currently
being
modified
to
fit
K-­‐12
District
needs

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