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SRA IMAGINE IT! ASSESSMENT SYSTEM

SRA IMAGINE IT! ASSESSMENT SYSTEM. Placement Testing Phonics Oral Fluency Vocabulary Comprehension Grammar, Usage, Mechanics Spelling Expository Writing. Oral Fluency Vocabulary Comprehension Grammar, Usage, Mechanics Writing. TWO MAJOR COMPONENTS:

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SRA IMAGINE IT! ASSESSMENT SYSTEM

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  1. SRA IMAGINE IT! ASSESSMENT SYSTEM

  2. Placement Testing • Phonics • Oral Fluency • Vocabulary • Comprehension • Grammar, Usage, Mechanics • Spelling • Expository Writing

  3. Oral Fluency • Vocabulary • Comprehension • Grammar, Usage, Mechanics • Writing

  4. TWO MAJOR COMPONENTS: Benchmark Assessments Lesson Assessments

  5. Benchmark Assessments At each grade level, there are periodic Benchmark Assessments. At kindergarten and first grade, there are six Benchmark Assessments. At the other grades, there are seven Benchmark Assessments.

  6. Benchmark Assessments Within a grade level, each Benchmark Assessment over the course of the year is of equivalent difficulty, and each one samples the entire year’s curriculum.

  7. Benchmark Assessments The specific test items on the Benchmarks vary from assessment to assessment, but each Benchmark is equivalent to the others within the grade level in terms of the content covered, the question formats, and difficulty.

  8. Benchmark Assessments

  9. Benchmark Assessments include the following components: 1. 100-Point Skills Battery Students answer questions relating to comprehension, vocabulary, grammar, usage, and mechanics, spelling, phonics, and phonemic/phonological awareness. Each grade level has a 100-Point Skills Battery that is weighted and administered according to that grade level’s focus.

  10. 2. Fluency Assessment The second component is the Fluency Assessment, which is a global indicator of a student’s reading ability. At Grades 5 and 6, teachers have the option of using passage reading or a group-administered pencil-and- paper maze task to measure fluency. For Grades 2–4, students’ oral fluency is measured by passage reading. At first grade, word identification fluency is used, and letter-sound fluency is used at kindergarten.

  11. 3. Writing Assessment In Grades 2–6, a writing assessment is included with the first, fourth, and seventh Benchmark Assessments. Each writing assessment includes an expository prompt and a checklist for students. These prompts are similar to the type of prompts found in high-stakes tests.

  12. Lesson Assessment Description As students complete each lesson, they will be assessed on their understanding of the instructional content and the literature in each lesson. The results of the assessments will then be used to inform subsequent instruction.

  13. Lesson Assessment The Lesson Assessments are in a structure similar to that of the Benchmark Assessments in terms of assessment sections that equal 100 points, a fluency assessment, and a writing assessment.

  14. How SRA Imagine It! Incorporates Both Approaches to Assessment

  15. The Benchmark Assessments incorporate the curriculum-sampling approach with the 100-Point Skills Battery. The Benchmark and Lesson Assessments also incorporate the performance indicator approach with their Fluency Assessments.

  16. The 100-Point Skills Battery includes a separate section on each major strand within the curriculum, so it also gives teachers information about students’ performance in specific areas of the curriculum.

  17. Another important advantage is that the 100-Point Skills Battery mirrors the format of end-of-year tests. This can help students learn strategies for performing well on those high-stakes tests.

  18. For the Benchmark Fluency Assessment, a single performance indicator assessment has been selected at each grade level, based on the strongest research available, and six or seven equivalent Fluency Assessments (depending on grade level) have been created, one for each alternateform of the Benchmark Assessments. The specific type of fluency measure used varies across the grades.

  19. Periodic administration of Benchmark Assessments throughout the year allows regular opportunities to reassess and reclassify students as potentially at risk for reading problems.

  20. Information from the Lesson Assessments can be a useful tool in reinforcing an opinion of a student’s at-risk status or it can provide data of growth and greater comfort within instructional strands.

  21. Are You Consistently Assessing and Recording Results?

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