Colorado School Day Digital PSAT & SAT Spring 2024 - Board Presentation - May 9, 2024 - Digital PSAT/SAT要点与自适应测评说明

Aug 29, 2026

Spring 2024 Colorado implemented new Digital PSAT/SAT assessments for high school students, emphasizing shorter, adaptive testing and updated item content and technical models. The presentation explains how adaptive tests select later items based on earlier performance, with a two-stage design for Reading/Writing and Math modules. It details module structures, score implications, and a revised scoring model where more difficult items carry greater value, enabling more possible score outcomes. It also compares digital section time, item counts, and question formats with prior paper-based SAT, and highlights evidence supporting comparable entrance-use score interpretation.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryExam

FormatPDF

Pages16

Reading Time40 min

AccessFree to download

Topics

Executive Summary

Adaptive Tests

Two-Stage Adaptive PSAT/SAT Design

Student Section Scoring

Technical Scoring Model

Reading and Writing Section Changes

Math Section Changes

Score Comparability and Conclusions

Colorado School Day Digital PSAT & SAT Spring 2024 State Board of Education Meeting May 9, 2024 1 Topics • Executive Summary • Adaptive Tests • Technical Approaches • Test Design and Content • Implications for Score Interpretation 2 Executive Summary: This spring, Colorado administered the new Digital PSAT/SAT assessments • This spring high school students took the Digital PSAT/SAT, College Board’s new tests. • The tests are shorter because they are adaptive . • The items, content distributions, and technical models were also revised. • Colleges and universities are accepting the resulting SAT scores for purposes of entrance . 3 Adaptive tests adjust items students see later in a test based on their performance on earlier items • Item level adaptive – after a student completes an item, the difficulty of the next item a student receives is based on performance on the prior item(s) • Stage adaptive – rather than adjusting item-by-item, students take a set of items that then determines the items that they will get in the next set • INTENT: create a shorter test with the same or better reliability • Instead of having students take a mix of 60 easy, medium and hard items, students get fewer, more targeted items . The scores they get from an adaptive and a “fixed” form grade-level assessment should be comparable. 4 PSAT/SAT is now two stage adaptive: the second module a student receives is based on performance on the first module Students take two sets of questions (modules) for Reading/Writing and two for Math. Students are not told whether they get the easier or more difficult second module. Module 1: 20-25 questions All students are given the same broad mix of easy, medium, and hard questions. Module 2A – Easier 20-25 questions Students are given a targeted mix of questions of varying difficulty (more easy items, fewer hard items) based on their performance in Module 1. Module 2B – More difficult 20-25 questions Students are given a targeted mix of questions of varying difficulty (more hard items than easy items) based on their performance in Module 1. 5 Student’s Score for that Section Students who take either the easier or more difficult modules can get a score above Met Expectations and meet the College Board College and Career Readiness Benchmark (CB CCRB) Final scores are NOT based on the number of items that students get correct. 6 A more precise technical model makes more difficult items worth more than easier items and provides for more possible score values • New technical model* means that two students who each get ten items correct will not automatically get the same score • A student who gets ten difficult items right will get a higher score than a student who gets ten easy items right. • In some cases, this model will lead to more possible scores on the scale. New model Old approach ------- Scale Score Percent of Students *A similar technical model currently is and has been used for other Colorado assessments going back to CSAP. 7 The Reading and Writing section has fewer items, takes less time, and has more, but shorter, passages Past years: Paper-based SAT Reading Section and Writing Section 96 total questions (2 sections) 100 total minutes (1.04 min/question) Set based questions Passage or Set Word Count: 400-750 New Digital PSAT/SAT Reading & Writing Section 54 total questions (1 section) 64 total minutes (1.19 min/question) Discrete questions Passage or Set Word Count: 25-150 Content distributions also have been adjusted 8 (see slide 13 in the appendix) The Math section has fewer items, takes less time, allows a calculator throughout, and has fewer items in context Past years: Paper-based SAT 58 total questions 2 sections – calculator and no calculator 80 total minutes (1.38 min/question) Discrete and set based questions Multiple-choice ≈78% Student-produced response ≈22% It

FAQs

Digital PSAT/SAT为何更短？

因为测试采用自适应机制，并在题目数量与内容分布上进行了调整。演示中也说明自适应旨在在更短时间内保持相同或更好的可靠性。

PSAT/SAT的自适应是如何运作的？

该测试为两阶段自适应：第一模块表现决定第二模块的难度与题目组合。学生不知道第二模块会更容易还是更困难。

分数是否取决于答对题数的数量？

不以答对题数直接换算最终分数。新的技术模型会让更难题目对应更高权重，使得同样数量答对但难度不同的学生获得不同分数。

Aug 29, 2026

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