Jennifer Paul
OEAA staff. Presenter of Session 1 — Using the Smarter Balanced Interim Assessment on April 23, 2026.
Author of April 2026 TAC Interim Deck and Interim and Smarter Concordance Table Examples, and the source of Smarter Balanced Interim Participation Trend Data.
Her session covered voluntary adoption of the Smarter Balanced interim assessments, the draft M-STEP concordance table intended to increase that adoption, and — off agenda — a WIDA operations update (WIDA Assessment Operations).
Related. Smarter Balanced Interim Adoption · M-STEP / Smarter Balanced Concordance