Assessment Program

The Assessment Committee met today and refined our district wide assessment program. The following assessments will be given with some questions remaining on the transition to these for some building from existing assessments.

Primary-


• Running Records – A measure of reading skills is an addition to SWES (PES end of September and end of May official collection, 4 data points per child per year) (SWES—materials, training and data collection done by February 2012, data collection May 2012, fully implemented by 2012-2013 school year)

• Primary MAP – Is an achievement test that measures growth this is an addition to PES (August 23 , January 9, May 14) – Kdg Winter/Spring only

• Writing Prompts – As named this is a writing assessment modeled after the state test and rubric based. This is an addition to SWES (need training to learn how to score them, need prompts and rubrics, training and data collection done by February 2012, data collection May 2012, fully implemented by 2012-2013 school year)

• DIBELS – A reading assessment will no long be administered

• COGAT – HA identification in K-2--October

• Coming IREAD (spring)

• Kingore – formerly used in HA identification will no long be administered
• Standford 10 — formerly used in HA identification will no long be administered
• SIGs – A HA identification test is given to the pool of nominated HA students –January

Intermediate

• ISTEP - Our State achievement test is given March 5-14, April 30-May 9

• MAP - Is an achievement test that measures growth given three times a year. August 23 , January 9, May 14

• Running Records – A measure of reading skills is an addition to SWES (SWES—materials, training and data collection done by February 2012, data collection May 2012, fully implemented by 2012-2013 school year)

• Writing Prompts – As named this is a writing assessment modeled after the state test and rubric based. This is an addition to SWES (need training to learn how to score them, need prompts and rubrics, training and data collection done by February 2012, data collection May 2012, fully implemented by 2012-2013 school year)

• OLSAT— HA identification - October

• SIGs – Administered to a pool of nominated HA students in 3rd and 5th –January

Middle School

• ISTEP — Our State achievement test is given March 5-14, April 30-May 9

• MAP — Is an achievement test that measures growth given three times a year. August 23 , January 9, May 9

• OLSAT— HA identification - October

• SIGs – Administered to a pool of nominated HA students in 7th –January



High School

• Practice SAT – An achievement test given to students in Grade 9 in October
• PSAT – An achievement test given to students in Grade10 & some 11 in October
• ASVAB – An aptitude test given to Grade 11 during October

• ECAs—Course specific achievement tests given the 2nd week of May to beginning of June

• Success Tracker with Math series is a formatitive assessment to assist instructional decisions given throughout the school year

Report Card Revisions

The Report Card Committee met July 7, 2011. The past year we have been discussing needed changes to help parents have better information about their student's progress. Our meeting today led to some changes in our report cards. There will be letter grades included with standards grades on the 3rd, 4th and 5th grade report cards. (New examples coming soon!) The Kindergarten will have the new core standards in place of the Indiana Academic Standards. We rewrote the four point teacher rubric to be clearer and the 4 point parent rubric on the report card to be friendly.

Our group also talked about how to communicate this well with parents and staff. We will launch a campaign to educate about grades and grading for the elementary groups as school starts in August. Look for more details soon.