Interim Assessment
Interim Assessment Types and Reports Interim assessments provide educators with the information necessary to guide instruction that will benefit each student in California. Two types of interim assessments are available through the Smarter Balanced Assessment System:
Interim Comprehensive Assessments and Interim Assessment Blocks.
Interim Comprehensive Assessments and Interim Assessment Blocks.
- Interim Comprehensive Assessments (ICAs) are built on the same blueprints as the Smarter Balanced Online Summative Assessments. The ICAs include the same item types and formats, including performance tasks, as the summative assessments, and yield results on the same vertical scale.
- Interim Assessment Blocks (IABs) focus on smaller sets of targets and therefore provide more detailed information for instructional purposes. The IABs yield overall information for each block. Interim assessments are aligned with grade-level content in mathematics and English language arts/literacy for grades three through eight and grade eleven. LEAs have the flexibility to administer any interim assessment to any student regardless of grade
Are you asking... I've given an Interim, now where do I see my results? GREAT!
1. If you have administered a test that did not require hand scoring, you will log into the Digital Library's Interim Assessment Reporting system.
If you don't already have an account, you can register for one here. Once you log in, you will see the results for testing almost instantly!
2. If you have administered a test that requires hand scoring, you first need to log into the CAASPP's Interim Assessment Handscoring System.
Once you score the tests, they will transfer into the Reporting System and you can access by following step 1.
1. If you have administered a test that did not require hand scoring, you will log into the Digital Library's Interim Assessment Reporting system.
If you don't already have an account, you can register for one here. Once you log in, you will see the results for testing almost instantly!
2. If you have administered a test that requires hand scoring, you first need to log into the CAASPP's Interim Assessment Handscoring System.
Once you score the tests, they will transfer into the Reporting System and you can access by following step 1.
Manual
- Interim Assessment User Guide (PDF)—Entire manual
- Chapter 1: Introduction (PDF)
- Chapter 2: Interim Assessment Viewing System (PDF)
- Chapter 3: Interim Assessment Administration (PDF)
- Chapter 4: Interim Assessment Hand Scoring System (PDF)
- Chapter 5: Interim Assessment Reporting System (PDF)
- Chapter 6: Appendixes (PDF)
Additional Resources
LinkICAs Table of Hand Scoring Items and Total Number of Questions Per Test
___________________________________ IABs Table of Hand Scoring Requirements by Subject and Grade ___________________________________ Smarter Balanced Interim Assessments Estimated Times for Hand Scoring Items ___________________________________ California Department of Education (CDE) Interim Assessments Web page |
DescriptionThis document is intended to assist LEA CAASPP coordinators, site coordinators, and test administrators in planning for the administration and local hand scoring of the interim comprehensive assessments (ICA). The following table provides key information, including the total number of items appearing on each ICA. This total includes items that are both machine-scored and hand-scored. Also included on this table are the number of items that require local hand scoring on the non-Performance Task (PT) constructed response, the PT constructed response, and the PT essay.
_______________________________________________________________________ These tables are intended to assist LEAs in planning for the administration and local hand scoring of the Interim Assessment Blocks (IAB). Included in each table are the total number of items on each IAB. The total number of items shown includes both machine-scored and hand-scored items. Each table also provides the number of constructed response and essay items that require local hand scoring. _______________________________________________________________________ This table is a Smarter Balanced document that describes a range of estimated times required to complete the hand scoring portion of the interim assessments. _______________________________________________________________________ Additional resources for the interim assessments are available on the CDE Web site. |