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Test Taking Skills Explorers Guild March 24, 2005

Test Taking Skills Explorers Guild March 24, 2005. Why Test?. It’s the law for CRCT and EOCT Accountability Measure behavior Enable us to predict behavior Identify problems and helps us individualize instruction. Types of Tests. CRCT-criterion-referenced EOCT-criterion-referenced

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Test Taking Skills Explorers Guild March 24, 2005

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  1. Test Taking SkillsExplorers GuildMarch 24, 2005

  2. Why Test? • It’s the law for CRCT and EOCT • Accountability • Measure behavior • Enable us to predict behavior • Identify problems and helps us individualize instruction

  3. Types of Tests • CRCT-criterion-referenced • EOCT-criterion-referenced • SAT-”new” SAT comes out this month, norm-referenced, realigned with standards, no more analogies • ACT-norm-referenced

  4. Practicing and Setting Goals • CRCT-demo on online system (at least every 9 weeks all year long) https://regione.georgiacrct.org/servlet/a2l (enota1-enota20) students can use in school or at home! • EOCT-try sample items posted on DOE’s website: http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/curriculum/testing/eoct_items.asp • EOCT-home online testing site, not for practice: http://etest.ncs.com/Customers/Georgia/eoct/index.htm • SAT-online courses that offer online practice tests: http://www.collegeboard.com/splash • ACT-informational website with test taking tips and sample tests: http://www.act.org/

  5. Student Tactics • CRCT guessing won’t hurt • SAT educated guessing only, take as many times as possible • General Multiple Choice Strategies: • Manage your time • Anticipate the answer as you read the prompt • Quickly eliminate wrong answers

  6. Teacher Tactics • Preparing for the CRCT and EOCT: • Teach the QCC’s (or GPS) all year • Regularly monitor progress with practice tests (at least every 9 weeks) • Individualize instruction based on results (work through CRCT score report)

  7. GDOE’s Testing Overview • The purpose of the Georgia Testing Program is to measure the level of student achievement of the Quality Core Curriculum (QCC) standards, to identify students failing to achieve mastery of content, to provide teachers with diagnostic information, and to assist school systems in identifying strengths and weaknesses in order to establish priorities in planning educational programs. In order to fulfill the purpose and maintain the integrity of the statewide testing program, test security must be established. Occurrences that violate test security risk damage to test integrity and could result in the invalidation of a system’s test scores. • The Advanced Placement (AP)The Advanced Placement (AP) program is designed to provide college credit and appropriate placement to secondary school students who have successfully mastered college-level course work. • Basic Skills Tests (BST)The Basic Skills Tests (BST) were administered until the 1990-91 ninth graders graduated in June 1994. • Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests (CRCT)The CRCT measures student acquisition of the skills and knowledge described in the QCC. The assessments will yield information on academic achievement at the student, class, school, system, and state levels. • End-of-Course Tests (EOCT)The purpose of the End-of-Course-Tests (EOCT) is to improve student achievement through effective instruction and assessment of the Quality Core Curriculum (QCC). • Georgia High School Graduation Tests (GHSGT)The 1991 Georgia Assembly established the requirement that all students seeking a Georgia high school diploma must pass a new set of tests. • Writing Assessments (GHSWT & MGWA)Section 20-2-281 of the Quality Basic Education Act, as amended in 1991, requires that writing assessments be administered to students in grades three, five, eight, and eleven. • Georgia Kindergarten Assessment Program-Revised (GKAP-R)Georgia Law (O.C.G.A., Section 20-2-151 and 20-2-281) of the Quality Basic Education Act (QBE) requires that all children enrolled in Georgia public school kindergarten programs be assessed for first-grade readiness with an instrument or instruments adopted by the State Board of Education. • Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS/A)The Iowa Tests of Basic Skills is a norm-referenced test (NRT). Scores from a NRT are used to compare the performance of Georgia’s students with the performance of students in a national sample, in the same grade who took the test at the same point in the school year. • National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)For more than 30 years, information on what American students know and can do has been generated by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). • Scholastic Assessment Test (PSAT & SAT)The Preliminary Scholastic Assessment Test (PSAT) is published by The College Board as a tenth or eleventh grade practice instrument for students taking the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) in the eleventh and twelfth grades.

  8. Thanks! • ruby.west@gcssk12.net

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