The Smarter Balanced Assessment

What is the Smarter Balanced Assessment?

• The Smarter Balanced Assessment is a computer adaptive assessment that students in grades 3-8 and 11 take to measure their mastery of the Common Core State Standards in ELA and Math.

What do we know about the assessment?

• Everything:
  • How they decide what texts to have students read
  • On what topics they'll assess students
  • How long it should take
  • The academic vocabulary used in the question stems
  • The conventions assessed for at each grade level
  • What scores student writing earned on the performance task full writes
  • And more