Enhancing Education with the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC): Format, Components, and Practice

Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) is a common core standard adaptive assessment of California students spanned grades 3 through 8 and grades eleven. This consortium allows teachers to assess student’s learning progress as well as interim assessments, which cover material that needs to be taught.

SBAC Assessment

The assessments measure student performance on standards of English language arts/literacy (ELA) and Mathematics. The formative and interim assessments provide teachers with critical and timely information so that they can adjust their teaching style and differentiate instruction to target students’ individual needs. Each test consists of a Performance Task (PT) and a Computer-Adaptive test.

Computer adaptive Assessment

Computer adaptive assessment means that the questions types and complexity level adjust according to student response to previous questions.

Performance Assessment

The performance assessment section is meant to measure a student, understanding, writing, researching, analyzing, and critical thinking skills.

SBAC Mathematics

Math tests help teachers to investigate students’ present knowledge to applying mathematical concepts and procedures in solving real-world problems. The questions involve basic math calculations, but students must select their answers in very different ways (drag & drop matching). SBAC math emphasis applied mathematics rather than concept expressing answers.

SBAC English language Art

ELA assessment demonstrates student understanding of literary purposeful writing and also evaluates communication skills that meeting the grade standard level.

SABC Practice

SBAC Practice test help educators to improve teaching at the level that will promote the level of readiness for SABC assessment. The SBAC practice test has a full list and description of those questions that will ask on a real test, it also demonstrates your ability to attempt Math and English tests. 

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