At Riverside Elementary School students have
completed Math, Reading, and Writing universal screeners in the fall
(end-of-August) and winter (early-to-mid-January). We will have one final round
of universal screening in these three areas towards the
end-of-April/beginning-of-May. The following slides are visual
representations of how many of our students are scoring proficient on the fall
tests, compared to how many of our students are scoring proficient on the
winter tests.
This information helps us in determining how
students are responding to instruction so that we can make necessary changes.
Our students use their individualized information to set goals based off of
these results, and then monitor the progress towards those goals by graphing
their progress monitoring scores.
What follows is a lot to be proud of and celebrate for and with our students, as well as the staff and family members that have assisted in these accomplishments!
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The FAST
(Formative Assessment System for Teachers) is our universal screener in the
area of reading. This kindergarten composite score takes into account all four
FAST scores that kindergarten students receive from the four different tests
that they take during each testing period.
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| Correct words refers to how many correct words students can read in the one-minute FAST passages. The score needed for students to meet proficiency on this graph increases from fall to winter. |
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| Correct words, again, refers to how many correct words students can read in the one-minute FAST passages. The score needed for students to meet proficiency on this graph remains constant from fall to winter to spring. |
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Accuracy
refers to the amount of errors that students make when reading the one-minute
FAST passages.
The score needed for students to meet proficiency on this graph remains constant (95%) for all grades and all testing periods. |
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The math
computation probe consists of 25 problems representing year-long, grade-level
math computation curriculum. Depending on the grade-level, students get three
to four minutes to answer as many of the problems as they are able.
The score needed for students to meet proficiency on this graph remains constant from fall to winter to spring. |
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The math
application probe consists of 18 to 25 problems representing the year-long,
grade-level math concepts and applications curriculum. Each test is three pages
long. Depending on the grade-level, students get six to eight minutes to answer
as many of the problems as they are able.
The score needed for students to meet proficiency on this graph remains constant from fall to winter to spring. |
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Students
are given a writing probe; they have one-minute to think of a response, and
then three-minutes to write a response. Total words written is a count of how
many words students were able to write within the three-minutes.
The score needed for students to meet proficiency on this graph remains constant from fall to winter to spring. |
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The same
writing probe that was used to score total words written is used to score
correct word sequence. To receive credit for correct word sequence, writing
must be spelled correct and grammatically correct.
The score needed for students to meet proficiency on this graph remains constant from fall to winter to spring. |
Runner's
World magazine's Twitter account, +Runner's
World Magazine, recently tweeted the following advice - 'Stop
running comparathons. Every mile is an accomplishment.'
I love this statement. And I think that it
definitely has implications for us as educators, as well as our students. Yes,
we are pushing our students towards setting goals and then charting their
progress towards those goals. However, we need to remember that all
learning that takes place for our students is an achievement worth celebrating.
It is my hope that our students won’t feel pressure to compare and/or
compete ‘head-to-head’ with their classmates when tracking their progress
compared to their goals. Instead, our students will be competing against
themselves while pursuing their academic goals, they will come to the
realization that progress and success are not linear achievements,
and that all growth is an accomplishment. Each piece of learning that takes
place is an accomplishment.
This same data is posted on display inside the
glass case across the hall from the office at Riverside Elementary School.
Also, be aware that individual child/student fall and winter data, as well as
grade-level expectations for throughout the year, was sent home via Friday
folders prior to conferences. If you did not receive these scores, please
contact your child's classroom teacher.
