Marietta City Schools Assessment Program

Marietta City Schools Assessment Program

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MCS Benchmark Testing Purpose: Content measured by these assessments is based upon core standards taught uniformly throughout the school system. Formative assessment tool to monitor student progress. Results used as a decision-making tool regarding placement for special

MCS Benchmark Testing Purpose: The assessment results are used by teachers and the school system to evaluate instructional practices and to appropriately modify instructional decisions. Benchmark assessments are only one of several instructional tools used to guide curricular decisions.

Question 1 Benchmark Testing is a formative assessment tool to monitor student progress. True False

Test Administration Transitioning to online administration as primary mode of administration Must be administered by certified staff Proctors must assist when 30 or more students are present in a class

Components of MCS Student Assessment Program Access for ELLs (ACCESS) American College Test (ACT) Georgia Milestones End of Grade (EOG) Georgia Milestones End of Course (EOC) Georgia Alternate Assessment (GAA)

Components of MCS Student Assessment Program (cont.) Georgia Kindergarten Inventory of Developing Skills (GKIDS National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Norm-Referenced Testing (MAP) Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT) SAT Reasoning Test (SAT)

Assessing Comprehension and Communication in English State to State for English Language Learners (ACCESS for ELLs )

Overview of ACCESS for English Language Learners (ELLs) Purpose: To determine the English language proficiency levels and progress of English learners in the domains of speaking, listening, reading, and writing.

Overview of ACCESS for ELLs (cont.) Standards-based criterion referenced English language proficiency test Administered to all English learners in Georgia, in grades K-12 Administration: January March

American College Test (ACT)

Overview of ACT Purpose: To assess high school students general educational development and their ability to complete college-level work Content areas: Reading, ELA, Math, Science, and Writing (optional)

Overview of ACT (cont.) Universally accepted for college admission Administration: September, October, December, February, April, & June

Georgia Milestones Assessment Program

Overview of Georgia Milestones Assessment open-ended (constructed-response) items in language arts and mathematics (all grades and courses); a writing component (in response to passages read by students) at every grade level and course within the language arts assessment;

Overview of Georgia Milestones Assessment (cont.) norm-referenced items in all content areas and courses, to complement the criterion-referenced information and to provide a national comparison

Overview of Georgia Milestones Assessment (cont.) transition to online administration over time, with online administration considered the primary mode of administration and paper-penc il as back-up until the transition is complete

Question 2 The Georgia Milestones Assessment will include norm-referenced items in all content areas and courses to supplant the criterionreferenced information and to provide a world-wide comparison True False

Georgia Milestones End of Grade (EOG)

Overview of EOG Purpose: To determine how well a student has learned the knowledge and skills in the state curriculum. Content areas: ELA, Math, Science, & Social Studies Online administration: Mid April Retest in grades 3, 5, & 8: Late May Promotion from grades 3, 5, & 8 dependent upon satisfactory performance.

Scores and Reports Scale scores range to be determined (TBD) for each grade and content area. Highest obtainable scale score can differ by test. EOG also reports student achievement in terms of performance levels (TBD):

Question 3 The purpose of the EOG assessment is to determine how well a student has learned the knowledge and skills in the national curriculum. True False

Georgia Milestones End of Course (EOC)

Overview of EOC Purpose: to assess student achievement of the state adopted curriculum in core courses and to provide diagnostic data in support of improved student achievement. Mandated in law and policy

Overview of EOC Includes eight content areas: Coordinate Algebra, Analytic Geometry, Algebra I, Geometry, US History, Economics, Biology, Physical Science, 9th Grade Literature, & American Literature and Composition Algebra I and Geometry will be assessed beginning Winter 2015 Three online administrations: December, April, & June Retests are midmonth online administrations

Question 4 The Georgia Milestones EOC is mandated in law and policy and assesses student achievement in eight content areas. True False

The Georgia Alternate Assessment (GAA)

Overview of GAA Purpose: To ensure all students, including students with significant cognitive disabilities, are provided access to the state curriculum and given the opportunity to demonstrate their progress in learning and achieving high academic standards

Overview of GAA A portfolio of student work is used to capture student learning in four content areas: ELA, Math, Science, & Social Studies Administration: September March

Georgia Kindergarten Inventory of Developing Skills (GKIDS)

Overview of GKIDS Purpose: Provide teachers with ongoing diagnostic information about kindergarten students developing skills in language arts, math, science, social studies, personal/social development, and approaches to learning

Overview of GKIDS Provide a summary of individual student performance at the end of the kindergarten school year as one indicator of first grade readiness Flexible model of assessment by the classroom teacher

Overview of GKIDS Administration: On-going assessment throughout the kindergarten year for instructional planning Domains: ELA, Math, Science (optional), Social Studies (optional), Personal/Social Development, Approaches to Learning, & Physical motor Skills (optional)

GKIDS: Performance Levels The number of levels (2 5) will be specific to each academic GPS element: Academic Performance Levels: Not Yet Demonstrated Emerging Progressing Meets the Standard Exceeds the Standard 35

GKIDS: Performance Levels Non-Academic Performance Levels: Area of Concern Developing Consistently Demonstrated

Question 5 The GKIDS assessment is only administered at the mid-point and end of the school year. True False

Measures of Academic Progress (MAP)

Overview of MAP Purpose: Enhance an instructor s ability to provide targeted instruction for individual students or groups of students. The results of MAP are used to evaluate the progress and instructional needs of students, as well as the performance of MCS

Overview of MAP (cont.) Administration: Fall, Winter, and Spring The MAP is a Norm Referenced Test (NRT). Testing Reading and Math in grades K- 10

Overview of MAP (cont.) Not required by the state Areas and grades assessed are at the district s discretion

Question 6 The results of MAP are used to evaluate the progress and instructional needs of students, as well as the performance of MCS True False

Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT ) (PSAT)

Overview of PSAT Purpose: To develop in students an understanding of the requirements of the SAT Typically taken by high school sophomores and juniors Required for entering the competition for scholarships from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (grade 11).

Overview of PSAT Domains: Critical Reading, Math, and Writing Administration: October Georgia pays for Sophomores to take the PSAT

SAT Reasoning Test (SAT)

Overview of SAT Purpose: To measure verbal and quantitative reasoning skills that are related to college performance. Typically taken by high school juniors and seniors

Overview of SAT Domains: Critical Reading, Math, and Writing Administration: October, November, December, January, March, May, & June

Acknowledgements Information in this presentation and accompanying handouts is not original to the presenter, but is taken from information found on the Marietta City Schools Website Testing/Assessment Page and Georgia Department of Education s Website Testing Page

Links to those pages. http://www.mariettacity.k12.ga.us/curriculum/testing/index.asp http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/curriculum- Instruction-and- Assessment/Assessment/Pages/default.aspx