Assessment,+ACT+and+PLAN+Updates

**__//Measures of Student Learning//__**

Measures of Student Learning (MSLs), sometimes called “common exams,” are a shared way to gauge student growth in all currently non-tested grades and subjects in the Common Core State Standards for Math and ELA and in the NC Essential Standards. While these measures will be used statewide, they are not the same as our statewide summative assessments in the NC Testing Program: the End-of-Grade and End-of-Course assessments. Districts and charter schools will have flexibility to decide how to use the MSLs as part of students’ grades.

The State Board of Education will NOT collect or publish the results of the MSLs, although the NCDPI will assist with scoring and data analysis. Eight hundred North Carolina teachers from more than 100 LEAs and 10 charter schools are involved in the design process for the Measures of Student Learning. The design group members began their work in October and will continue to provide feedback for the remainder of 2011-12 school year. NC will implement the MSLs statewide during the 2012-13 school year.

** MORE INFO: ** Jennifer Preston, Jennifer.Preston@dpi.nc.gov

__**ACT and PLAN Updates**__

[|Accountability.pdf] [|ACTPLAN Informational Update.doc] [|plan_why_take.pdf]

[|PLANsupman.pdf]

[|UsingPLANResults.pdf]


 * Computer-Based Assessment: "Intermediate Constraint" Questions and Tasks for Technology Platforms **

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