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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
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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.
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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
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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-
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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.
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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.
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tablets on hand, already loaded
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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.
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students who did practice tests
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the tablets themselves and more cluded. “I’m still a bit skeptical
to do with human actions, Hunt- about it.”
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