Interim Assessments
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CAST Interim Assessment Training PD 2025
CAST Interim Assessment Training PD 2025
Learn Ways Utilize Interim Assessments to Better Prepare Students for CAST
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ywx-yiac-xay (2025-03-04 16:03 GMT-8)What are the CAST Interim Assessments?
Optional tests that provide meaningful information to guide instruction and support student learning
Designed to be versatile: they can be administered to students in either a standardized (e.g., benchmark) or nonstandardized (e.g., formative) manner
Can administer any interim assessment to any student regardless of the student’s enrolled grade level
Non-adaptive (fixed number of items)
1 hand scored question
Available for use anytime during the school year
1 additional version will be available in each grade/content area in each of the next two years.
1 version available in 2023-2024
2 versions available in 2024-2025
3 versions available in 2025-2026
Possible Classroom Implementation Models for CAST Interims
1.
Administer a standardized IA
Score exam & Review the student results
Go over test questions with class via the Viewing System (could be just a few questions at a time).
2.
Model some of the test questions whole class
Administer non standardized IA
Score exam & Review the student results
Go over test questions with class via the Viewing System
3.
Administer a prior year IA (i.e. 4th grade IA to 5th grade students)
Go over test questions with class via the Viewing System
Then back to #1 for current year IA.
Accessing the Interim Assessments
Click “Interim Assessments”
Click Interim Assessment Viewing System
Login (username is your .net email)
If you haven’t set your password yet THIS school year, click “Request one now” under the First Time User heading.
If you have set your password for THIS school year, click “Forgot Your Password?”
Need Login Access or Support?
Contact Jessica Kempker in ARE (jkempker@lodiusd.net)
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