[Assessment_Advisory_Committee] assessment advisory: input on time machine tool requested by 7/28

[Bill Stewart]

Thanks Holly!

Per your message and our phone conversation, it now seems like this would
*not* be an effective tool to address the problems that a number of
students across the state encountered this past spring.

If a TA has to have the tool turned on BEFORE the problem arises, then the
TA is essentially 'required' to turn it on for all students at the start of
the session to have any chance of recovering drafts. I'm not enough of a
mind-reader to know, ahead of time, which kids will need this feature.

I'm not at all sure it is worth slowing down the system for all students.

I hope others will weigh-in and show me the error of my logic.

Bill

On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 3:32 PM, CARTER Holly <holly.carter at state.or.us>
wrote:

>  Thanks, Catherine. There’s one important piece of clarification that we
> have received that I want to share with you all. AIR has clarified that,
> regardless of whether it is in the same session or a different session, if
> a student pauses the test, they will not be able to view previous draft
> responses once the student logs back in.
>
>
>
> When we reviewed this tool back in May, it was your collective
> recommendation that this tool should not be on for all students
> automatically as it may cause confusion/distraction, but that the TA should
> be able to enable the tool mid-test if the need arose. Given the recent
> clarification from AIR that the response history will not persist when a
> student logs out and logs back in (which is required for the TA to turn on
> a tool mid-test), how does this impact the benefit/use of this tool?
>
>
>
> Holly
>
>
>
> *From:* Catherine Carlson [mailto:CARLSON_CATHERINE at salkeiz.k12.or.us]
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 23, 2015 3:27 PM
> *To:* 'CARTER Holly';
> assessment_advisory_committee at listsmart.osl.state.or.us
> *Subject:* RE: [Assessment_Advisory_Committee] assessment advisory: input
> on time machine tool requested by 7/28
>
>
>
> Holly,
>
> Given the technical problems we encountered around this issue, I think
> that being able to recover drafts in the current session is better than not
> having the ability at all.
>
>
> Catherine Carlson
>
> Coordinator
> Testing & Evaluation/Student Records Department
> Salem-Keizer School District
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> FAX 503-391-4088
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> *From:* Assessment_Advisory_Committee [
> mailto:assessment_advisory_committee-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us
> <assessment_advisory_committee-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us>] *On
> Behalf Of *CARTER Holly
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 23, 2015 1:24 PM
> *To:* assessment_advisory_committee at listsmart.osl.state.or.us
> *Subject:* [Assessment_Advisory_Committee] assessment advisory: input on
> time machine tool requested by 7/28
> *Importance:* High
>
>
>
> At our May 6 meeting, AIR reviewed with us a new “Item Response Time
> Machine” tool that would be available in 2015-16. The slide below
> summarizes this proposed tool as AIR described it to us at the meeting:
>
>
>
>
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> ODE has recently learned from AIR that they will need to limit this
> feature to retrieving responses entered *during the student’s current
> test session* as allowing students to go back and retrieve responses from
> an earlier test session uses too many system resources and risks slowing
> down the testing experience for all students.
>
>
>
> Given this change in scope, ODE now requests your input whether there is
> still value in implementing the Item Response Time Machine for 2015-16. So
> that we can finalize our specifications and prepare communications to the
> field about supported tools, we request your input by *COB* *Tuesday,
> July 28.*
>
>
>
> Thank you as always for your valuable feedback!
>
>
>
> *Holly Carter*
> Assessment Policy Analyst
>
> Office of Learning | Inst., Stand., Asmt, &Acc. Unit | Oregon Department
> of Education
>
> Phone: 503.947.5739 | Fax: 503.378.5156 | *holly.carter at state.or.us
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