Category: Regents Exam

OVERView: New Algebra I Regents Exam

3/3/2024

On June 4th, 2024 New York State will welcome the new Algebra I Regents exam based on the Next Generation Standards! The full list of June Regents exam dates and times can be found here. With COVID pushing the start time for all Next Gen assessments back a few years, this assessment will be the first High School Math adventure after Common Core. The good news is that not much will change according to NYSED Math representatives. In fact, before with any new test implementation they would keep the old test around for an extra year for those that need to retake it. Since the change is so minimal, the January 2024 Common Core Algebra I test was the end of that exam. We’re now moving forward to Next Gen.

Why the early administration of this exam?
The state will get the data on all students and set the scaled score (it will still be out of 100). Unlike the 3-8 assessments where the scaled scores go up to 500+ and is different in each grade, Regents exams are scaled to 100. New York State will set the thresholds for the 5 levels of proficiency (grades 3-8 have 4 levels of proficiency) and the results will be known by the last rating day, Wednesday, June 25th. In other words, there will be a total of 82 points on this year’s Algebra I exam and then a student will get a scaled score out of 100. If they get 82 out of 82, they’ll get a scaled score of 100 and for each point they miss their scaled score will drop, or in some cases stay the same. You can find more details in the Algebra I Educator Guide, however, the cut scores for those 5 proficiency levels will not be known until the end of June.

What are districts doing to prepare for this new test?
For the most part, using old Regents questions, being aware of the changes by using the Algebra I crosswalk comparison to the Common Core standards or the Snapshot of the year (which also includes Highlights/Instructional Considerations noted by NYSED). Teachers in our region have come to the face-to-face 6-12 Math CLC sessions and the online Zoom sessions to stay in the loop, however, nothing new has been added. During the CABOCES December Curriculum Forum, the NYSED math reps re-emphasized that the change is very little and that there will be no more released questions to help prepare, just the five questions at the end of the Algebra I Educator Guide. CABOCES has also shared other items to help teachers prepare off of the NYSED Math page, like the Performance Level Descriptions (PLD’s) to understand the level of questions that could be asked by each of the five performance levels. For all of the New York State Next Generation Math standards (Grades PreK-Algebra II) you can use this enhanced document.

We will be offering summer trainings for Math, you can find them in this pamphlet. Along with our July 9th day with Paul Riccommoni from Penn State around the importance of Vocabulary in Math as well as retention of information for students. If you have any other Math questions feel free to reach out to Jillian Putnam for elementary Math at [email protected] and for middle/high school, Mark Carls at [email protected].

By: Mark Carls, CA BOCES Professional Development

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US History & Government Assessment Analysis Session

10/31/2023

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This past June the New York State Education Department administered the first ever USHG Framework Regents exam. This new exam design has 28 MC questions that are attached to a stimulus, a Part II Stimulus Based Short Essay task where students write 2 responses to 4 documents, and a Part 3 six document Civic Literacy DBQ Essay. The purpose of this new Regents exam is to align assessment to the content, skills, and practices of the Framework and teachers have been anxiously anticipating the arrival of the new exam and curious about both the content and assessment structure.

In order to get a better understanding of the exam and student performance, teachers were invited to a regional workshop to analyze the exam and compile data surrounding the content and skills the exam was measuring.

The information collected was combined and shared so that teachers would have a record of what content was being asked from the Framework, and the types of sources used within the assessment that students would be working with.

At the completion of this work teachers had a better understanding of the exam structure and state expectations and were able to look at student results to develop ways in which to better assist and prepare for future administrations.

By: Rob Griffith, CA BOCES Professional Development

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Coming This June - The New USHG Regents Exam!

4/26/2022

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Over the past few years, the New York State Education Department has been developing new Regents exams for High School Social Studies in both Grade 10 Global History and Geography and Grade 11 U.S. History and Government. These new exams are designed to reflect the shifts in instruction that were identified in the 2014 released Field Guide for Social Studies and assess students according to the practices identified in the Social Studies Framework for K-12 instruction. The first of these new Framework exams was offered in 2019 in Global II, while the US History exam was supposed to be offered for the first time in June 2020. As a result of shutdowns and cancellations this exam was never given. However, come June this brand-new assessment will be administered for the first time.

This new exam design has 28 MC questions that are attached to a stimulus, a Part II Stimulus Based Short Essay task where students will write 2 responses to 4 documents, and Part 3 will be a 6 document Civic Literacy DBQ Essay. The purpose of this new Regents exam is to align assessment to the content, skills, and practices of the Framework.

One of the most noticeable changes in the exam will be regarding Part II. Replacing the Part II Thematic essay, the Framework exam Part II has two stimulus-based essay responses. These will require students to both analyze and make connections between sets of provided documents and discuss the context surrounding these documents.

While many teachers are uncertain regarding this new exam, they are also optimistic as they reflect on how the Global II exam was both fair and challenging and are hopeful this exam will be the same as well.

By: Rob Griffith, CA BOCES Professional Development

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The New Framework Exam is Here!

7/5/2019

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Over the past few years the New York State Education Department has been developing new Regents exams for High School Social Studies in both Grade 10 Global History and Geography and Grade 11 U.S. History and Government. These new exams are designed to reflect the shifts in instruction that were identified in the 2014 released Field Guide for Social Studies and assess students according to the practices identified in the Social Studies Framework for K-12 instruction. The first of these new Framework exams was offered this year in Global, while the US History exam will be offered for the first time in June 2020.

June 2019 was the first administration of the NEW Global History and Geography II Regents for students in Grade 10. This new exam design has 28 MC questions that are attached to a stimulus, a Part II Constructed Response Task, and a single Enduring Issues Essay. The purpose of this new Regents exam was to align assessment to the content, skills, and practices of the Framework. Districts had the choice this past June of offering their Global students the new Framework exam, or having students take the Transition exam which continued with the older format of 30 MC questions, a Thematic Essay, Scaffold Questions and a DBQ essay. For two years there will be an overlap period where both types of exams are offered by NYSED.

One of the most noticeable changes in the exam was in regard to Part II. Replacing the Part II Thematic essay, the Framework exam Part II CRQ’s required students to both analyze and make connections between sets of provided documents.

The other major change was a move away from a DBQ format, to an extended writing response called an Enduring Issues Essay. In this writing task, students were still given documents to examine, but rather than have questions they would need to respond to that were assigned to each document, they analyzed the documents to make connections about an issue they identified from them.

Almost half of the districts in the CA BOCES region offered the new Framework exam to their Global students. The first administration was deemed a success and the consensus from teachers was that the test was both fair and indicative of the practices outlined in the Framework.

By: Rob Griffith, CA BOCES Professional Development

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