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7A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, APRIL 6, 2015 Ilwaco students 1st in US to try new online national tests Tablets will be used to conduct Common Core assessments tions for students and the new tests are designed to assess stu- dent performance against those higher standards, the bar has been raised,” said Smarter Bal- anced Executive Director Joe Willhoft in a statement in No- vember 2014. The consortium estimates close to two-thirds of students will not meet state standards. “It’s not surprising that fewer students could score at Level 3 or higher,” Willhoft said. “How- ever, over time the performance of students will improve.” “The reality is, they’re not slated to do well,” Amy Huntley said. “… We knew that going into this.” Once Smarter Balanced as- sessment scores go into effect following this year’s round of tests, the district will really only have the rest of the state of Washington to compare itself to. In the district alone, “We have nothing to compare this to,” Huntley said. By KATIE WILSON EO Media Group ILWACO, Wash. — Jessie Huntley sat down to take a test recently — not unusual in the life of an eighth-grader. But she’d never taken a test with quite so many adults hover- ing around her as she set up her tablet and attached its keyboard. In the room with her were teach- ers, the district’s technology di- rector and employees from the technology company Amplify, which sold more than 200 tab- lets to the Ocean Beach School District last year. “Poor kid,” said her mom Amy Huntley, a teacher at Ilwa- co high school and the district assessment coordinator tasked with overseeing state testing. But Jessie was an important guinea pig that day. Amplify’s secure testing browser had just been approved by the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consor- tium. Students at Ilwaco Middle 6FKRRO ZLOO EH WKH ¿UVW LQ WKH nation to take the new state-re- quired Smarter Balanced As- sessments on Amplify tablets in May. So when Amplify’s engi- neers wanted to see what hap- pened when a real student took a real test on a real tablet, Jessie and a handful of other students obliged. They took practice tests and reported back on the expe- rience while engineers experi- mented with what would hap- pen if something went wrong — if, for instance, keyboards were disconnected mid-test. Photo courtesy of Amy Huntley Eighth-grader Jessie Huntley gets plenty of attention as she helps with a trial of new computer tablet testing procedures and technology at Ilwaco Middle School. Karen Veeland looks on. For students like Jessie, tak- ing tests on their tablets will not be a big deal. After all, they’ve been using their tablets in class all school year, but students new to the Middle School or new to tablets could have some catch- ing up to do. Head start for OP Meanwhile, students com- ing to the Middle School from Ocean Park Elementary will have had more experience with Smarter Balanced Assessments than students coming from Long Beach Elementary. Last school year, OPE did a pilot program of the Smarter Balanced Assessments to pre- pare students well ahead of time & 102.3 fm Present the Classic Rock Station Quarterflash for what’s to come. Long Beach Elementary chose not to, hop- ing to track improvement over previous years under the current state tests. Students and teachers have been working on sample Smarter Balanced questions and test this year, however, LBE Principal Todd Carper said. Smarter Balanced Assess- ments tests grades 3-8 and high school students on mathematics and English languages arts/liter- acy. They are different than tra- ditional tests, in some instances, demanding more of a student than before. Questions may have multiple parts and, in math, stu- B B I ke ts at the Liberty Theater t.com at Astoria es th e sw I E R E T I R I N G MARCH bo x et of fic e d an k Tic N JOI ! US Across Washington, students will likely do worse than before, WKH2I¿FHRIWKH6XSHULQWHQGHQW of Public Instruction has said. “Because the new content standards set higher expecta- Ba rb ie Jen kin s ha s b een a n o p ticia n fo r the p a s t 20 yea rs here in As to ria . S he s ta rted her ca reer w ith Dr. K u m p u la in 1994, co n tin u ed o n a s it b eca m e No rth Co a s t Vis io n Cen ter, a n d s in ce 2011 ha s b een vita l in help in g Co a s ta l E ye Ca re b eco m e the thrivin g clin ic it is to d a y! As the p ra ctice cha n ged ha n d s s evera l tim es o ver the yea rs Ba rb ie ha s rem a in ed the co n s ta n t fo rce. S he ha s b een d ed ica ted to her p a tien ts fo r a ll this tim e w ith her co m p a s s io n a te w a ys a n d s tea d fa s t s ervice. Barbie will be greatly missed. Friday, May 22 nd tic Managing expectations B arbie is retiring A R S dents may need to spend more time memorizing formulas prior to the test. Ocean Beach School District board members and administrators tried their hand at some sample questions last year and, after struggling over the answers together in groups, wondered out loud how students would do. 6 3- M P ley said: “The kids have to have their tablets at school and fully charged.” Eighth-grader Reese Tyn- kila, who did a practice math assessment on the tablets along with Jessie Huntley, said many of his peers forget to charge their tablets before school, and in a recent class, several kids had forgotten to bring their tablets altogether. The school will have extra tablets on hand, already loaded ZLWKJHQHULFSUR¿OHVRQWHVWGD\V But with the devices ap- proved for testing, Thompson will spend less time rushing around the district setting up and taking down computers for tests, shunting them from class to class and taking them out of circulation for regular classroom work. When the district bought the tablets last year, it nearly doubled the number of devices available districtwide. Many of the middle school students who did practice tests on the tablets for the Amplify 0LQRU¿[HV visitors said they are glad they But as far as the tablets go, will be using familiar devices. Huntley and Thompson are Tynkila said that using his FRQ¿GHQW WKH\ DUH VHWWLQJ WKH tablet to take a test makes the students up to succeed. Amplify test more a part of the regular had to only work on some small ÀRZRIKLVGD\+HGRHVQ¶WKDYH issues with how the keyboards to go into a big testing room full connected to the tablets. The of strange computers. But others school will have to adjust how are not convinced. Seventh-grader Michael students sign in to make sure they’re connecting to the correct Knudson said on the practice math test he couldn’t zoom in to wireless network. Their biggest concerns have examine a graph. “I don’t know,” he con- little to do with the mechanics of the tablets themselves and more cluded. “I’m still a bit skeptical to do with human actions, Hunt- about it.” W A NTED Alder and Maple Saw Logs & Standing Timber N orth w es t H a rdw oods • Lon gview , W A Contact: Steve Axtell • 360-430-0885 or John Anderson • 360-269-2500 W ith this sw eet Spring Special, now m ight be the tim e to m ove to Suzanne Elise A ssisted Living APRIL SPECIAL Call Sarah for details and a tour 503-738-0307 $ 100 MOVE-IN SPECIAL C om e help us celebrate! 101 F OREST D RIVE S EASIDE WWW . SUZANNE - ELISE . COM Coastal Eye Care 553 18th St., Astoria! 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