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Standardized and state assessments

Standardized and state assessments. 3W Talk. Reasons to test. To recognize areas of strength and weakness To look for discrepancies between subjects or abilities To identify giftedness in one or more areas To help set attainable goals and differentiate for our students . Testing dates.

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Standardized and state assessments

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  1. Standardized and state assessments 3W Talk

  2. Reasons to test • To recognize areas of strength and weakness • To look for discrepancies between subjects or abilities • To identify giftedness in one or more areas • To help set attainable goals and differentiate for our students

  3. Testing dates • Spring Testing – April 28th and 30th • Ohio Achievement Testing in Reading and Math • Fall Testing – October 7th – 18th • Iowas and Cognitive Abilities Testing – Nationally Normed Tests, Multiple Sessions • Ohio Achievement Assessment in Reading, One Session

  4. Test Preparation • Classwork, be at school • Meet their primary needs – Sleep, Food, Shower, Water, Encouragement • ODE website – Preparation Questions and Practice tests

  5. What to expect with results • Mid-Year you will receive the test results by mail • Iowas and CogAts – a form letter and a second page with results • Remember that these results are normed nationally • OAA – a glossy foldable of your child’s achievement in reading compared to other students in Oakwood and in the State of Ohio • Also included is information on your child’s current strengths and weaknesses with suggestions for assistance and teaching. • The OAA’s are not nationally normed and cannot be used to determine a learning disability or identify giftedness.

  6. How to read the OAA • 4 Levels • Advanced • Students go beyond understanding what they read to explain what they like or do not. • Accelerated • Students understand what they read and compare stories and texts. • Proficient • Students understand what they read and try to list important ideas in the texts. • Basic – not a passing score, You will receive a letter from the district discussing the 3rd Grade Guarantee • Students understand some of what they read. They use strategies to learn new words. • Limited – Not a passing score – You will receive a letter from the district discussing the 3rd Grade Guarantee • Students struggle with simple reading tasks.

  7. Areas evaluated in the Reading OAA • Acquisition of Vocabulary • Identify and read new words and word parts • Use Context Clues and word parts to make meaning • Reading Process • Use reading strategies for understanding • List, recall, summarize • Informational Text • Use text features • Draw conclusions from charts, graphs and diagrams • Literary Text • Compare and Contrast plots of different stories • Retell what happens in a story • Explain different genres of literature

  8. How to read the cogats • Cognitive Abilities Test • Measures students’ learned reasoning abilities developed both in and out of school • Gifted Qualifying Score – 129 and above on the entire battery • Verbal Battery • Assesses ability to use search, retrieval and comparison processes • Analogies, Sentence Completion, Classification • Quantitative Battery • Assesses ability to reason about patterns and relations • Number Analogies, Number Puzzles, Number Series • Nonverbal Battery • Assesses students’ abilities to reason with somewhat more novel questions that use spatial and figural content. • Figure Matrices, Paper Folding, Figure Classification

  9. Aboutthe iowas • Iowa Tests • Students took 2 of 13 Assessments • Reading (Vocabulary and Comprehension) and Math (Concepts, Problem Solving and Estimation) • Vocabulary – word in the context of a short phrase or sentence • Comprehension – reading passages from multiple genres, 2/3 of the questions require the students to infer or generalize • Math Concepts – demonstrate understanding of ideas, relationships and visual representations • Problem-Solving – Word Problems that require one or more steps to solve • Test of Achievement, Different than Ability • Qualifying Score for Gifted Services, 98th and 99th percentile

  10. Response to test information • Keep in mind that it is one piece of information – Other Curriculum based measures and assessments can provide more specific information • Gifted Services in 4th-6th grade • Teach above grade-level material where necessary • Response to Intervention in Reading or math – RIMP, focus on specific skills and strategies to track • Continue Teaching Grade Level objectives

  11. Gifted service options • No K - 3rd Grade Gifted Services • 6th Grade – • 1 or 2 Seminar Offerings based on Testing Data • Gifted Intervention Specialist Service in Reading with Qualifying Score • Gifted Intervention Specialist in Math with Qualifying Score • 5th Grade – • 1 or 2 Seminar Offerings based on Testing Data • Gifted Intervention Specialist Service in Reading with Qualifying Score • Gifted Intervention Specialist in Math with Qualifying Score • 4th Grade – • 1 or 2 Seminar Offerings based on Testing Data • Gifted Intervention Specialist Service in Reading with Qualifying Score

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