SLA Assessment Overview for Educators
Explore the details of the SLA assessment for Grade 2 students in Alberta, including components, administration tips, FAQs, and links to the teacher dashboard. Learn about the goals, available tools, and important dates for the assessment.
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Overview of the SLA Assessment September 22, 2017
FAQs The SLA will be available for the entire 2017/2018 standard school year, from August 14, 2017 to June 30, 2018. Can choose to test one, a few or all of your students. Teachers may administer any or all of the SLA components. The digital questions and performance tasks can be administered and, if desired, readministered throughout the school year.
More FAQs Tablets cannot be used to respond to digital questions. Most Chromebooks work. Students having a mouse is preferable to relying on a trackpad. Data reports are available within 24 hours of submitting results. Teachers are encouraged to share SLA Results with parents. The results are not reported in the Accountability Pillar.
Four Components of the SLA The SLA is based on outcomes related to literacy and numeracy in language arts and mathematics in Alberta s current Grade 2 provincial programs of study. Some questions include contexts from arts education, health, science and social studies. - digital interactive literacy questions (45 questions) - literacy performance task (4 activities) - digital interactive numeracy questions (39 questions) - numeracy performance task (2 activities).
SLA Teacher Dashboard The SLA Application is located at https://public.education.alberta.ca/assessment/ and provides access to the: SLA Teacher Dashboard SLA Student Login If you need help, check out the SLA Quick Tip Videos: How to Access the Dashboard, How to Use the Dashboard and Promising Practices. SLA Previews Practice Questions Released Questions SLA Results/Reports.
Administration Tips Give students practice opportunities. Help students learn to interpret more than one medium in order to answer questions (e.g. a text and an audio clip). Coach students on answering multi-step questions. The assessment(s) should be spaced out, e.g., across a two week time period. Some students may need more time. Allow for some differentiation.
Practice Questions SLA practice questions have been updated this year These do not reflect content or complexity of actual SLA questions
Released Questions & Performance Tasks Available from 2014 and 2015.
Prerequisite Activities Principals must approve access, through the Extranet, for Grade 3 teachers to use the SLA Teacher Dashboard. Teachers should use their work email when signing up for an account. Grade 3 student enrollment data must be submitted to the Provincial Approach to Student Information (PASI) system prior to setting up the SLA Teacher Dashboard. School staff notify parents that their child will be participating in SLAs. Students will need to be provided with their 9 digit Alberta Student Number.
ARPDC Resource Page http://arpdcresources.ca/consortia/student-learning-assessments/
Any final questions? sherri.johnston@erlc.ca
