Report on Student Achievement NormReferenced Testing

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Report onStudent AchievementNorm-Referenced
Testing
Instruction and Assessment Department

• Presented to the
• Mercer Island School District
• Board of Directors
• June 26, 2003

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What do we mean by curriculum?

• FORMAL
• Curriculum content standards
• INSTRUCTED
• Instructional practices and materials
• ASSESSED
• WASL / ITBS / District Assessments / Classroom
  Assessments

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Creating a Standards-Driven Instructional System
District Learning Targets
Assessment Data
Staff Development
Improved Instruction
Improved Student Achievement
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MISD Large Scale Assessment Program

• Gr. 2 Reading Fluency
• Gr. 3 Iowa Test of Basic Skills Cognitive
  Abilities Test
• Gr. 4 Washington Assessment of Student Learning
• Gr. 5 ITBS/CogAT Science WASL
• Gr. 6 ITBS/CogAT
• Gr. 7 WASL
• Gr. 8 ITBS Science WASL
• Gr. 9 Iowa Test of Educational Development
• Gr. 10 WASL Science WASL

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Anticipated Changes

• Move CogAT from gr. 6 to gr. 5.
• Listening to be dropped from WASL.
• ITBS to be dropped by state after 2004-05.
• Mini WASLs to be implemented in gr. 3, 5, 6,
  8 in spring 2006 (reading and math only).
• Goal 2 (social studies, health and fitness,
  arts) classroom assessments to be provided by the
  state by 2008? Not currently intended to be large
  scale assessment.
• State reading and math goals have been dropped,
  to be replaced by ESEA goals.

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Gr. 2 Reading Fluency

• State required assessment
• Administered to all gr. 2 students in the fall.
• Students who do not meet standard are retested in
  the spring.
• Districts report to the community the percent of
  students reaching standard.
• 85 of our students met standard in fall 2003.
• In the spring of 2003, 97 of Mercer Island
  students met standard in reading fluency. The 10
  students who did not received services from
  Special Education and/or the Language Assistance
  Program.

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Norm Referenced Assessment Results

• Gr. 3 ITBS (State)
• CogAT (District)
• Gr. 5 ITBS (District)
• CogAT (District)
• Gr. 6 ITBS (State)
• CogAT (District)
• Gr. 8 ITBS (District)
• Gr. 9 ITED (State)

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State 03 58 67 not
tested by state
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CogAT Results Over Time Mean Composite
Percentile (Note CogAT is an aptitude test and
measures preparedness for academic work, not the
result of instruction in school.)
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Mercer Island School District Gr. 5 Iowa Test of
Basic Skills Mean Percentiles Spring 2003
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Mercer Island School District Comparison of Gr. 3
and Gr. 5 ITBS Means Same Students Over Time
(Note These scores will not exactly match other
mean score reports because these scores are from
only those students who took the test at both
grades.)
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Mercer Island School District Gr. 5 Cognitive
Abilities Test Spring 2003
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State 03 55 58 56
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Mercer Island School District Gr. 8 Iowa Test of
Basic Skills Mean Percentiles Spring 2003
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State 03 (not yet available)