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These tests are not meant to tell the whole story. They are meant to be combined with other measures, including teacher feedback, classwork and projects, and report card grades. Together, these measures can give families a more complete picture of a student’s performance so they can better support learning at home and advocate for their child.  \nState Assessments 101  \nThe Every Student Succeeds Act or ESSA, requires students to take state tests in reading and math every year in third through eighth grade and once in high school. In Connecticut, students in third through eighth and 11th grade take the Smarter Balanced test in English language arts and math. Students in fifth and eighth grade also take a test in science, known as the Next Generation Science Standards test (NGSS) . High school students take the NGSS in 11th grade along with the SAT.  \nA Family Guide to Annual State Tests in Connecticut  \nA Focus on Grade Level Skills  \nUnlike other tests, the Smarter Balanced test is focused on grade level material and is aligned to the state standards. The test questions match what students do and learn in the classroom everyday throughout the year, which are the skills that are most important for students to learn in order to move on to more challenging content.  \nThe Smarter Balanced test is taken online and is computer adaptive, which means it adjusts the difficulty of the questions based on the student’s responses. The test includes a variety of different types of questions, including real world problems that ask students to show and explain their answer, write well-developed essays and analyze text. Connecticut teachers have worked closely with the state to write and review test questions.  \nGrade 6: Math  \nPaul could play 16 songs on his guitar. He learns some new songs. Now he can play 23 songs.  \nIn the first box enter an equation to represent the number of new songs, s, that Paul learns.  \nIn the second box, enter the number of new songs represented by s in this situation.  \nGrade 3: ELA  \nWhich sentence from the passage supports the idea that the Coleman brothers have experience with making maple syrup?  \nA “The Coleman brothers—Nelson Ralph, and Harold—step out their front door in Vermont.”  \nB “As they pass the 75-year-old sugarmaple trees, sap drips from holes in the trees into metal buckets.”  \nNumber of new songs  \nC “Every spring, the Colemans tap holes into sugar-maple trees, then hang a bucket under each hole to catch the sap.”  \nD “They don’t worry too much about why the sap is running in their trees this morning.”  \nA Family Guide to Annual State Tests in Connecticut  \nUseful Information for All  \n FAMILIES:  Understanding Grade Level Performance  \nThe Smarter Balanced report gives families information on how well their child performed on different sets of skills in each subject. Families can use this information to identify where their child is doing well and where they may need support or practice. This helps families better support learning at home. It can also help them to start meaningful conversations with teachers, to set goals for each student’s areas of improvement and to identify resources and strategies that can be used at home and in school to help students make progress.  \nQuestions to Ask the Teacher about Your Child’s Smarter Balanced Report:  \n• What does this mean about my child’s learning?  \n• Is my child on grade level?  \n• Where does my child need more support or improvement?  \n• What short-term learning goals should my child meet to show progress?  \n• How can I support learning at home?  \n?  \n TEACHERS:  Informing Instruction  \nStudents take different types of tests throughout the school year. 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