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ISTEP+ Information Night. Looking at ISTEP+ results Navigating the state’s data Understanding the test and testing process Looking at other data Using the data for remediation & enrichment Answering your questions. Looking Online. http://www.doe.in.gov. Assessment at WWES.
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ISTEP+ Information Night • Looking at ISTEP+ results • Navigating the state’s data • Understanding the test and testing process • Looking at other data • Using the data for remediation & enrichment • Answering your questions
Looking Online http://www.doe.in.gov
Assessment at WWES NWEA Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) • Fall, Winter, Spring: 1st – 4th grades • Fall, Spring: Kindergarten • Individualized, self-accommodating • Math/Reading K-1; Math/Reading/LA 2nd-4th Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT) • 3rd Grade (January) & Kindergarten (April) • Meets state-mandated requirement for K-12 ability measurement • Verbal, Quantitative, Non-verbal
Assessment at WWES(continued) Common Instructional Checks (CICs) • Grades 1 through 4: Beginning of year, end of trimesters • Core concepts from grade level standards ISTEP+ • 3rd and 4th grades IREAD • 3rd grade
ISTEP+:The Test and Testing Process Assessment Timeline… Applied Skills: March 5 – March 14 (WWES: March 5 – March 9) Multiple Choice: April 30 – May 11 (WWES: April 30 – May 11)
The Test and Testing Process Test Content: 3rd Grade: Math & Language Arts (includes reading) 4th Grade: Math, Language Arts, & Science Test Format: Applied Skills (Written response) Multiple Choice (On-line fill-in-the-bubble)
The Test and Testing Process What do the questions look like? Find Item Samplers at http://www.doe.in.gov/ or, more directly… http://www.doe.in.gov/assessment/3-8_gqe_resources.html
IREAD-3:Indiana Reading Evaluation and Determination New reading assessment for 3rd Graders Result of Public Law 109 (March 2010) March 19-21 Possible implications (and exceptions) MORE INFO AT A LATER DATE!
Summer Success • 60 of our neediest students coming out of K. and 1st as of March ‘11 • 90 minutes a day, 30 days over the summer • Very small group literacy plus FastForWord • Students will be data-tracked. • Model for the district; more to come
Other Useful Data • Median RIT scores here and in WWS • Longitudinal ISTEP passing rates • Subgroup success (Free/R, Spec Ed, EL) • DNP vs. NWEA Growth Target
Remediationand Enrichment Study Clubs/MWMath RtI Differentiation Helping Hands, Pass It On, Tutoring To You