Smarter Balanced Tools and Resources

• Smarter Balanced CONTENT EXPLORER
  • What is Smarter Content Explorer?
• Smarter Balanced SAMPLE ITEMS
• SmART: Smarter Annotated Response Tool for Scoring Student Writing

 

• Smarter Balanced Supports for Educators
• Tools for Teachers
• Interim Assessment Item Portal (IAIP) 

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• Smarter Balanced Content Explorer (YouTube, 6:44); how to use
• Demo I (May 2020, YouTube, 4:54); navigation demonstration
• Demo II, 2021 Updates (June 2021, YouTube, 2:49)

• Demo: Site Navigation and Print Function 
  (March 2020, 5:39)

• What is Tools for Teachers (portal)? (YouTube, 1:33)
• Smarter Balanced Tools for Teachers (YouTube, 7:01); introduction to the portal
• Using the Interim Assessment Item Portal (IAIP) (YouTube, 6:27)
• First-Time Users--Tools for Teachers Demonstration (YouTube, 19:52); comprehensive tour

Smarter Balanced Interim Assessments Overview (pdf) — This document describes the Smarter Balanced Interim Assessments, including their purpose, use, and varieties. For ELA and mathematics, this document provides a list of interim assessments available for the current school year.

• The Smarter Balanced library of interim assessments in English language arts (ELA) and mathematics provides educators with questions similar to those on the Nevada summative tests in grades 3-8.
• The Interim Assessment Item Portal (IAIP) allows teachers to use individual test items in flexible ways to support student learning and instruction in grade level standards.
• The interim assessments and interim assessment items are student and teacher facing; they are not for public use, display, or distribution.

Focused on a smaller set of related content to provide more detail on the tested content and information for instructional purposes.

• IAB>English Language Arts
• IAB>Mathematics

Built on similar blueprints to the full-form summative assessments. Note: Beginning with spring 2025, Nevada students will participate in the shortened summative assessments in ELA and mathematics built on the "adjusted form" blueprints. 

Smarter Balanced Summative Test Blueprints