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The Assessment Upgrade: Using Statewide Assessment Best Practice for Your AI-Powered Classroom Assessment
Thursday July 9, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am HST
Limited Capacity seats available
Wonder what happens behind the scenes of state test design? It turns out, the best practices used to build state standardized tests can help inform your development of incredible, high-quality classroom assessments! The Hawaiʻi State Department of Education’s Assessment Section will show you how our Hawaiʻi Authoring Program (HAP) item authoring and Performance Assessment Development Institute (PADI) workshops empower local educators to use those design principles to craft rigorous, valid, and culturally relevant tests for their own students.
In this session, we will model the type of activities we do in our workshops, especially when we fuse these gold-standard assessment design practices with the world of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools like Gemini or NotebookLM. 
We will dive into a "Human-AI-Human" workflow, showing you exactly how teachers can use approved AI tools as a digital assistant for creating daily classroom assessments. We will also discuss ways in which you will need to spot "fluency bias"—where a polished, AI-generated question looks perfect but actually misses the mark on Hawaiʻi’s standards or local cultural contexts. You'll learn how to put your teacher-intuition in the driver's seat, using state assessment best practices to critique, hack, and elevate AI outputs for the classroom.
Whether you are a complex area specialist, an instructional coach, or a classroom teacher, you’ll walk away with practical strategies from our workshops. Join us to discover how to supercharge your assessment toolkit using AI tools, while keeping human heart, pedagogy, and local context right where they belong—at the center of your classroom!
Speakers
avatar for Jason Nagaoka

Jason Nagaoka

Math Test Development Specialist, HIDOE State Office - OSIP/AAB/Assessment Section
Jason Nagaoka is a test development specialist for the Hawaiʻi State Department of Education, focusing on mathematics and interim assessments. He brings 15 years of prior experience as a high school mathematics teacher, including 12 years of leadership as a department chair. Jason... Read More →
avatar for Kelsie Pualoa

Kelsie Pualoa

ELA Test Development Specialist, HIDOE State Office - OSIP/AAB/Assessment Section
Kelsie Pualoa has served as the English Language Arts Test Development Specialist at the Hawai’i Department of Education since 2018. She leads the development and implementation of statewide assessments, ensuring compliance with federal policies and grant requirements. Kelsie specializes... Read More →
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Tyler Belanga

Test Development Specialist, HIDOE State Office - OSIP/AAB/Assessment Section
Tyler Belanga is a Test Development Specialist with the Hawaiʻi State Department of Education's Assessment Section, where his work focuses on balanced assessment systems, performance assessment design, and social studies item development. With a background as a middle school educator... Read More →
Thursday July 9, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am HST
  Enhancing Teaching and Learning, AI Practitioner / Implementer
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