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Inspect Math and ELA

General Tools and Resources


Inspect Overview
SBAC Claim/Target/Standard Tables
Algebra I Topic Guide

Services

Item Request Form
Assessment Creation Service

Pre-Built Assessments

Full Assessment List

Coming Back with Inspect Series
Efficiently identify gaps in the previous year’s learning with broad domain assessments and follow-up measures to provide teachers with evidence about whether instruction has been successful or whether the gaps still exist.

Grades: 3-9

Content Areas: ELA and Math

# of Assessments: 1 Broad Coverage Assessment for filtering for each grade level and subject with a set of Focused Follow-up Assessments

Purpose of Assessment: To help teachers address unfinished learning resulting from the COVID-19 disruption

Linked Tools:

  • Broad Domain Mappings
  • ELA Broad Domain Assessment Blueprints
  • Math Broad Domain Assessment Blueprints
  • Guidance

Administration: Online and Paper Allowable

Naming Convention:

  • Broad Coverage: Inspect Incoming Grade 3 ELA Broad Coverage Assessment 2020
  • Focused Follow-ups: Inspect Incoming Grade 3 ELA Focused Follow-up - Reading Lit - Ideas & Details 2020

Cluster Quizzes
Quick, quiz-like assessments; focused on the major standard clusters

Grades: 3-8

Content Areas: ELA and Math

Length: 6-8 questions

# of Assessments: Varies by grade

Purpose of Assessment: Evaluate student performance on the major standard clusters

Linked Tools: Assessment Summaries

Administration: Online Only

Naming Convention: Inspect Cluster Quiz Grade 4 Place Value: Operations Multi-Digit Arithmetic [School Year]

SBAC Interim Block Mirrors/Focused Interims
Short, prebuilt assessments that focus on one or more groups of related standards, modeled after the SBAC IAB Blueprints

Grades: 3-8 and high school

Content Areas: ELA and Math

Length: Varies by assessment

# of Assessments: Varies by grade

Purpose of Assessment:  Provide information about a student’s ability to demonstrate knowledge and skills represented by the targets; follow SBAC IAB blueprints and item specifications

Linked Tools:
SBAC Block Mirror Assessments Overview

ELA Blueprints
Grade 3

Grade 3 Editing
Grade 3 Read Literacy Text
Grade 3 Read Informational Text
Grade 3 Revising
Grade 3 Language and Vocabulary Use
ELA Grade 3 Brief Writes

Grade 4

Grade 4 Read Literacy Text
Grade 4 Read Informational Text
Grade 4 Editing
Grade 4 Revising
Grade 4 Language and Vocabulary Use
Grade 4 Brief Writes

Grade 5

Grade 5 Read Informational Text
Grade 5 Reading Literacy Text
Grade 5 Editing
Grade 5 Revising
Grade 5 Language and Vocabulary Use
Grade 5 Brief Writes

Grade 6

Grade 6 Read Literacy Text
Grade 6 Read Informational Text
Grade 6 Editing
Grade 6 Revising
Grade 6 Language and Vocabulary Use
Grade 6 Brief Writes

Grade 7

Grade 7 Read Literacy Text
Grade 7 Read Informational Text
Grade 7 Editing
Grade 7 Revising
Grade 7 Language and Vocabulary Use
Grade 7 Brief Writes

Grade 8

Grade 8 Read Literacy Text
Grade 8 Read Informational Text
Grade 8 Editing
Grade 8 Revising
Grade 8 Language and Vocabulary Use
Grade 8 Brief Writes

High School

High School Read Literacy Text
High School Read Informational Text
High School Editing
High School Revising
High School Language and Vocabulary Use
High School Brief Writes


Math Blueprints
Grade 3

Grade 3 Measurement and Data
Grade 3 Number and Operations - Fractions
Grade 3 Number and Operations in Base Ten
Grade 3 Operations and Algebraic Thinking

Grade 4

Grade 4 Measurement and Data
Grade 4 Number and Operations - Fractions
Grade 4 Number and Operations in Base Ten
Grade 4 Operations and Algebraic Thinking

Grade 5

Grade 5 Measurement and Data
Grade 5 Number and Operations - Fractions
Grade 5 Number and Operations in Base Ten
Grade 5 Operations and Algebraic Thinking

Grade 6

Grade 6 Expressions and Equations
Grade 6 Geometry
Grade 6 Ratios and Proportional Relationships
Grade 6 The Number System

Grade 7

Grade 7 Expressions and Equations
Grade 7 Ratios and Proportional Relationships
Grade 7 Statistics and Probability
Grade 7 The Number System

Grade 8

Grade 8 Expressions and Equations I
Grade 8 Expressions and Equations II with Statistics
Grade 8 Functions
Grade 8 Geometry

High School

High School Algebra and Functions I
High School Algebra and Functions II
High School Geometry and Right Triangle Trigonometry
High School Statistics and Probability

Administration: Online Only

Naming Convention: Inspect Grade 3 ELA SBAC Block Mirror: Revising [School Year]

Interim Assessments
Interim assessments that should be modified to meet district’s specific pacing; online and paper‐allowable versions available

Grades: K-11 ELA and K-8 and high school for math (both integrated and end-of-course pathways supported)*

Content Areas: ELA and Math

Length: 15-25 questions

# of Assessments:
K-2 – 4 per grade (Orange, Green, Pink, Blue)
Grades 3+ – 3 per grade (Orange, Green, Pink)

Purpose of Assessment: Track student progress towards standard mastery. Provide timely feedback to both teacher and learner to inform instruction

Linked Tools:
Pacing Guides
Assessment Summaries

Administration: Online Only and Paper/Allowable versions available

Naming Convention: Inspect Grade 3 ELA Pink Interim Assessment [School Year] [Delivery Method]

*Coverage may vary by state

Comprehensive Assessments
Comprehensive assessment as a summative measure directly modeled after the SBAC Blueprints; allow for intervention prior to high‐stakes testing

Grades: 3-11 ELA and 3-8 and high school for math (both integrated and end-of-course pathways supported)*

Content Areas: ELA and Math

Length: 35-40 questions

# of Assessments: 2 – pre/post

Purpose of Assessment: Predict student performance on high-stakes end-of-year assessment and demonstrate student growth

Linked Tools: Assessment Summaries

Administration: Online Only

Naming Convention: Inspect Grade 3 ELA Blue Comprehensive Assessment [School Year]

*Coverage may vary by state

Online Performance Tasks
Performance‐based assessment applying classroom knowledge to solve real‐world problems

Grades: 3-8 and 11

Content Areas: ELA and Math

Length:
ELA: set of sources followed by 3 research questions and a full-write essay
Math: 6 questions following a sustained task

# of Assessments: 3 per grade

Purpose of Assessment: Allow students to focus on higher order thinking processes while working through authentic problems

Administration: Online

Naming Convention: Inspect Grade 8 Math Climate Change Performance Task [School Year]

Scaffolded Performance Tasks
Multi-day performance-based assessments

Grades: 2-12

Content Areas: ELA and Math

# of Assessments: 3-4 per grade

Purpose of Assessment: Multi-day performance tasks that provide multiple access points and various ways to scaffold to assess students at different levels of preparedness

Administration: Paper/pencil; These paper-based assessments are in a Google Drive that must be shared with you. Please contact your CSM for access.

Early Literacy and Early Numeracy Assessments
Online self-paced assessments to identify students who are having difficulties with certain early literacy or mathematics foundational skills in order to provide timely intervention

Grades: K-2

Content Areas: ELA and Math

Length: Varies by assessment

# of Assessments: 1-6

Purpose of Assessment: Focuses on the foundational skills that promote future academic success

Linked Tools:
ELENA Overview
Assessment Designs

Administration: Online Only

Naming Convention: Inspect Grade 2 Early Numeracy: Place Value and Properties of Operations to Add and Subtract Form B [School Year]

K-1 Observational Assessments
Get insight into student understanding of foundational skills

Grades: K-1

Content Areas: ELA and Math

Length: Varies

# of Assessments: 124

Purpose of Assessment: Help teachers have better insight into student understanding

Administration: Paper/pencil; These paper-based assessments are in a Google Drive that must be shared with you. Please contact your CSM for access.

ELPAC Mirrors
Mirror assessments of the California Initial and Summative ELPAC

Grades: 3-5 grade band

Purpose of Assessment: Help determine the progress of English learners' ability to listen, read, and write in English.

Administration: Online Only

Linked Tools: Overview

AzM2 Mimics
Comprehensive assessments that follow the new AzM2 blueprints

Grades: 3-8 and 10

Content Areas: ELA and Math

# of Assessments: 3 forms

Purpose of Assessment: These assessments can be used for growth measures and to predict how well a student will do on the AzM2 assessment and can be used to disrupt the prediction by identifying where intervention is needed before the assessment.

Linked Tools: 

Overview

Assessment Summaries

Administration: Online Only and Paper/Allowable versions available

Naming Convention: Inspect AZ Grade 3 ELA AzM2 Mimic Form A [School Year] Online Only

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