How are Smarter Balanced scores reported?

Reporting Scores. After students take the Smarter Balanced assessments, their results are reported in two primary ways: scaled scores and achievement levels. On this page, you can learn more about scores, as well as how achievement levels were determined and how they are used by educators and parents.

What is a good score on the SBAC?

The overall scores are always between 2100 (low) and 2900 (high). This year’s SBAC scores will establish a new baseline for the progress we expect students to make over time. Click to view the Smarter Balanced Scale Score Ranges by content area and grade level.

How are Smarter Balanced scores used to inform students?

The Smarter Balanced scale is a vertical scale, which means that student performance in all grades is reported on the same scale. This allows educators to compare a student’s scale score from a test in one grade to that student’s scale score from a test in another grade.

What is level 4 on the Smarter Balanced Assessment?

Smarted Balanced Results by State: 2014-15 While the Smarter Balanced scoring system is the same in every state, ranging from level 1, the least proficient, to level 4, the most proficient, states have different terminology to describe the four levels.

What is the highest score you can get on the Caaspp test?

Smarter Balanced Scale Score Ranges

Grade Min Scale Score Max Scale Score
3 2114 2623
4 2131 2663
5 2201 2701
6 2210 2724

Who takes the Smarter Balanced Assessment?

Part of a Comprehensive Plan for Student Success. Each spring California students in grades three through eight and grade eleven take the Smarter Balanced Summative Assessments in English language arts/literacy (ELA) and mathematics.

What grades take the Smarter Balanced Assessment?

Each spring California students in grades three through eight and grade eleven take the Smarter Balanced Summative Assessments in English language arts/literacy (ELA) and mathematics.

What is the purpose of the Smarter Balanced Assessment?

The Smarter Balanced assessment system provides accurate measures of achievement and growth while challenging students to think critically and solve real-world problems. A core principle of the Smarter Balanced system is equity and accessibility for students.

What does the Smarter Balanced Assessment measure?

What do the Smarter Balanced Summative Assessments measure? The assessments measure student performance on California’s content standards in English language arts/literacy (ELA) and mathematics and their ability to write analytically, think critically, and solve complex problems.