SBAC Math Practice
Smarter Balanced Summative Assessment. SBAC is aligned to the Common Core State Standards for math, which Briveli covers comprehensively.
Spring (mid-March through mid-May, district-selected window)
Computer-adaptive
No calculator in grades 3-5. Grades 6-8 have the embedded SBAC calculator on the calculator-allowed CAT segment and the performance task (four-function in grade 6, scientific in grades 7-8).
Four achievement levels: Level 1 (Emergent/Developing), Level 2 (Approaches Standard), Level 3 (Meets Standard), Level 4 (Exceeds Standard)
About the SBAC
Nevada has administered the Smarter Balanced math summative to grades 3 through 8 since 2014-15, with high-school students taking the ACT in grade 11 instead of the SBAC. The Nevada Department of Education uses the consortium's default CAT-plus-performance-task design and the 2000-3000 scale, but localizes the achievement-level labels and reports results through the Nevada Report Card site (nevadareportcard.nv.gov), which exposes math proficiency rates by school, district, and subgroup. Nevada is also a Cambium-platform state — the same vendor that runs Idaho, Hawaii, and Washington — so Nevada districts share a common testing console with several other SBAC states.
Nevada's K-8 math windows are typically eight weeks long and open in mid-March, with each district picking its own start date so long as testing finishes before the last day of school. Each math test runs about 2.5 to 3 hours total: a 40-item adaptive section plus one performance task. Family score reports are mailed home through the district in the late summer or early fall and include the overall scale score, the Nevada achievement level, and Smarter Balanced claim-level feedback in Concepts & Procedures, Problem Solving & Modeling, and Communicating Reasoning.
Official source: https://doe.nv.gov/assessments/
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