DOE Update Denise Bishop, Director Program Standards and Professional Development Office of Early Le

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DOE UpdateDenise Bishop, DirectorProgram
Standards and Professional DevelopmentOffice of
Early Learning

• Duval Early Learning Directors Network
• January 20, 2009

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Topics

• 2008-09 Kindergarten Screening 2007-08 VPK
  Provider Kindergarten Readiness Rate Calculation
• 2009-10 New Kindergarten Assessments
• VPK Assessments

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2007-08 Kindergarten Screening VPK Provider
Readiness Rate Timelines

• November 3 - 27, 2008 -
• VPK Provider Verification
• November 3 - December 5, 2008
• Coalition Review/Approval
• December 12 - 17, 2008
• Posting of District/School Results
• December 15 - 19, 2008
• Release of Kindergarten Screening Results
• Coalition Receipt of District Results

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2007-08 Kindergarten Screening and VPK Provider
Readiness Rates Timelines

• December 22, 2008 January 3, 2009
• Results of Matched/Unmatched Records for
  Additional Information
• January 15, 2009
• Calculation of 2007-08 Preliminary Rates
• Conference Calls with Coalitions/Districts
• January 15 February 14, 2009
• Dispute Resolution and Recalculation of Rates
• February 17, 2009
• Release of Final Readiness Rates

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Kindergarten Screening History
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Kindergarten Screening Measures
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Florida Assessments for Instruction in Reading -
NEW!

• For K 12 students
• Available to all districts in 2009-10
• Predictive of end-of-year performance in reading
• Administered by the kindergarten teacher
• Used for screening, progress monitoring, and
  diagnostic testing

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The Five Elements of Reading Critical to
Assessment AND Instruction
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What is the Probability of Success in Reading
Score?

• A score that tells the probability that a student
  will be on grade level at the end of the year.
• (at or above the 40ile on the Stanford
  Achievement Test)

Green Success Zone the student has an 85 or
greater chance of being at or above grade level
Yellow Success Zone the student has an 16-84
chance of being at or above grade level
Red Success Zone the student has a 15 or lower
chance of being at or above grade level
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Florida AssessmentsFrequency of Administration

• Assessment Period 1 Fall/September
  (Instructional Days 20 - 39)
• Assessment Period 2 Winter/February
  (Instructional Days 95 - 114)
• Assessment Period 3 Spring/April
  (Instructional Days 156 - 174)

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Florida Assessments K - 2
All assessments include practice items.
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Broad Screen/Progress Monitoring Tasks
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Kindergarten Broad Screening Letter Naming

• Teacher Directions
• Im going to show
• you some letters
• of the alphabet.
• Tell me the name
• of the letter.
• Ready?

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VPK Education Standards 2008

• V. Emergent Literacy
• A.3. Shows alphabetic knowledge
• a. recognizes almost all letters by name
• b. names most letters
• c. ...names some letter sounds

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Kindergarten Broad Screening Phonemic Awareness

• Teacher Directions
• What would the word be if I say
• /l/ /ake/   (lake)
•  /l/ /ock/   (lock)
•  /sh/ /ip/   (ship)
•  /s/ /o/     (so)
•  /h/ /all/  (hall)
• /c/ /oa/ /t / (coat)

For the first assessment, the majority of the 10
items are onset and rime.
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VPK Education Standards 2008

• V. Emergent Literacy
• A.2. Shows age-appropriate phonological
  awareness
• a. combines words to make a compound word (foot
  ball football)
• b. combines syllables into words (sis ter
  sister)
• c. can delete a syllable from a word (trumpet
  trum pet)
• d. combines onset and rime to form a
  one-syllable word with pictorial support (c at
  cat)

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Assessment Decision Rules(Assessment Period 1)

• Broad Screen/Progress Monitoring Tool
• Letter Naming Phonemic Awareness
  Probability of Success

Broad Diagnostic Inventory
Listening
Vocabulary Comprehension
(Students scoring in red
(All K students)
and yellow zones) Targeted Diagnostic
Inventory
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• Questions?

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Contact Information

• Office of Early Learning
• Florida Department of Education
• [phone]
• earlylearning_at_fldoe.org