Montana Aligned to Standards Through-Year (MAST) Engagement Opportunities
New Meridian and the Montana Office of Public Instruction (OPI) want input from Math and ELA Educators and Administrators
New Meridian is pioneering the next generation of state assessment—and we need your help. Your input is critical to making this effort successful. Lend your voice to help transform assessment to better serve all students.
Ways To Engage
Educator Cadres:
We are inviting teachers, instructional coaches, administrators, and other specialists to participate directly in the test development process through select committees. These committees meet at a specified date and time to review test content and help determine scoring parameters for performance tasks. These may be held in-person or virtually, depending on the meeting. Compensation is provided for participation.
Educator Item Review Cadre:
These committees will review newly developed assessment items to ensure that the content measures Montana standards, the items are clearly worded and have clear correct answers and are appropriate for all Montana students by being free of bias and sensitivity concerns.
Educator Range-finding Cadre:
These committees will help guide scoring for performance tasks. Educators will help finalize the scoring rubrics and identify exemplar samples of student responses at each score point. The committee-reviewed responses are then used to build scoring guides with anchor papers, practice sets, and qualification sets to train human scorers.
Share Your Feedback
This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of assessment.
Here is how you can participate:
Sign Up. Click “SIGN UP TODAY” to complete the questionnaire.
· Participate in User Research or Educator Cadres. Selected participants will be invited to participate in educator cadres, focus groups, one-on-one user interviews, and/or surveys as needed. Your feedback will be used to influence the design of the next generation of state assessments.
· Receive Compensation. All participants will be compensated for their time.
User Research:
We are inviting teachers, administrators, and parents to participate in virtual user interviews and focus groups to better understand the impact of assessment and how it can be improved. User interviews and focus groups are typically 45-90 minutes. Compensation for participation ranges from $75 – $200 depending on the time commitment.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Who Can Participate
· 3rd through 10th grade teachers
· School district staff and school building administrators, coaches,
and leaders connected to 3rd through 10th grade assessments and data
· Parents and guardians of school age children