Overall Timeline
- Year 1 (2011): Content Model Phase
- Define model of domain learning in math/ELA for these students, Identify prioritized content for assessment
- Year 2 (2012): Principled Design Phase
- Design patterns, Task templates, Curriculum/Instruction/PD design and pilot; Technology architecture design
- Year 3 (2013): Item and Test Development Phase
- Task template tryouts, Item specifications/item development/item reviews, Student Interaction Studies (SIS), Draft grade level Performance Level Descriptors (PLDs), Finalize pilot and field test design, Technology build
- Year 4 (2014): Pilot Items, Field Test Forms, and Research Phase
- Winter/Spring 2014: Pilot Phase 1: National sample, generate item statistics
Finalize blueprints, revise items, assemble forms - Fall 2014: Phase 2: Field Test Forms
Finalize administration training and supports
- Winter/Spring 2014: Pilot Phase 1: National sample, generate item statistics
- Year 5 (2015): Operational Administration of NCSC Assessments
- Summer 2015: Standard setting complete
- Fall 2015: Technical reporting complete