April 2026 TAC Interim Deck

Jennifer Paul, Ph.D. (OEAA). Three slides, 91 words — the lightest artifact in the corpus, and deliberately so: it exists to frame a single discussion question. Presented in Session 1 — Using the Smarter Balanced Interim Assessment.

Slide 2 — “Pilot aka Professional Learning Opportunity”

  • ~14,000 students participating across 21 schools
  • OEAA has engaged in webinars, presentations, direct outreach to get participating districts
  • “Does not need to replace your current solution (try it out)”
  • Offered incentives
  • Engaged with the Michigan Assessment Consortium (MAC)

The rebranding from “pilot” to “professional learning opportunity” is the strategic move the slide is built around — see Smarter Balanced Interim Adoption.

Slide 3 — the ask

What information would educators need in order to better use the scores from the interims?

That question is the whole purpose of the session. Everything the committee said in Session 1 is an answer to it.

Note

The deck carries no participation detail; that lives in Smarter Balanced Interim Participation Trend Data. It carries no concordance table; that is Interim and Smarter Concordance Table Examples.