What is the CRCT? Criterion Reference Competency Test

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What is the CRCT?Criterion Reference Competency
Test

• An assessment to determine how well the students
  have learned the Georgia Performance Standards
  for their grade level.

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Who is tested?

• Grades 1st 2nd
• Reading, English/language arts, and Mathematics.
• Occurs over a 3 day period.
• Grades 3rd, 4th, 5th
• Reading, English/language arts, Math, Science,
  and Social Studies.
• Occurs over a 5 day period.

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When is the test given?

• For Brumby, CRCT will be administered April
  21st-24th.
• One test is given each day.
• Students who come in tardy or are absent, will
  have to do a make up test during the make up
  testing period- April 27th-30th.

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Passing Scores

• For reading, English/language arts, math, and
  science a score of 800 or higher is passing.
• For social studies, a score of 300 or higher is
  passing.
• Third graders must pass the reading test to get
  promoted.
• Fifth graders must pass reading and math to get
  promoted.

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What can parents do to help?

• Reassure your child that there will be plenty of
  time to take the test and that its ok if he/she
  doesnt know all the answers.
• Point out that some items may be more difficult
  than others and some material may be new to the
  child.
• Encourage your child to use good test taking
  skills read and follow directions carefully,
  avoid careless errors, review work.

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Tips continued

• Be certain your child gets plenty of sleep and
  has a good, nourishing breakfast.
• Be certain your child is at school on time.
• Remember to ask your child about the testing at
  the end of each day.

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Strategies students can use

• Ask questions when directions are unclear
• Understand pacing
• Follow along with the teacher as she reads the
  question and each answer
• Use the process of elimination
• Use context clues
• Use picture clues
• Mark answers in the appropriate place

• Be neat by avoiding making stray marks on the
  test
• Use answer choices as a source of information
• Skip an item and return to it accurately
• Draw a diagram for clarity
• Recheck answers after finishing the test if time
  permits
• Eliminate worthless information

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Skills the students need

• Follow oral directions
• Follow written directions
• Understand testing vocabulary
• Understand testing symbols
• Work in a timed situation
• Become familiar with interchangeable math symbols
  and terms
• Know classroom procedures for testing

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What is testing vocabulary?

• Explain tell about, discuss, tell how or why
• Summarizegive short version, main idea, sum it
  up, just the facts
• Comparehow are they alike?, give similarities
  between two or more things
• Contrast how are they different
• Describe tell about using the 5 senses (touch,
  smell, scent, sound, look), paint a picture using
  words
• Predictwhat you think will happen next, make a
  guess about the next event, think ahead

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What is testing vocabulary?

• Support back up with details, give reasons for,
  give the facts
• Evaluatetell the value of, tell the good and bad
  parts, put in rank order, judge or rate
• Analyze break into parts, study individual
  pieces, take apart, look at closer
• Inferread between the lines, make an educated
  guess, look for hidden information, figure out
• Formulate put together, come up with, create,
  make, design
• Trace write in order from beginning to end, list
  in steps, outline, track or follow

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BUBBLING IN ANSWERSEXAMPLES

• No
• No
• No
• Yes

• Daily Oral Language
• Color the bubble that is under the mistake in the
  sentence.
• Mike and i went to the store.
• O O O

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LEARN THE TEST FORMAT

• The CRCT is a multiple
• choice format. Provide
• students the opportunities
• to complete assignments
• and tests using the format
• for practice.
• HINT
• There is NO PENALTY for guessing.

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WORKING IN A TIMED SITUATION

• Students need to understand that sometimes tests
  or assignments need to be completed in a certain
  time frame.
• Example
• The most widely used is
• the timed math fact quiz.

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PROCESS OF ELIMINATION

• Eliminate any answers you know are wrong before
  making your choice.
• Example
• What is the capital of Qatar?
• Washington,D.C. Atlanta Doha Tokyo
• O O
  O O

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TRY EACH ANSWERUSE EACH ANSWER GIVEN TO FIND THE
CORRECT ONE

• Example
• 20____218
• gt 20 gt210
• / 20/210
• 20222
• - 20-218

• OR
• Which word best completes the sentence?
• Alice is _______ on the bed.
• jumped
• jump
• jumping

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KNOW MATH TERMS AND SYMBOLS

• Tests like to use various mathematical terms or
  symbols to mean the same thing.
• Example
• What is the sum of the equation?
• Add the following numerals.
• Choose the correct operation/symbol.
• OR
• 8X216 8216 8(2)16

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WRONG ANSWERS ARE USUALLY COMMON MISTAKES

• Test makers will put commonly made mistakes as
  answer choices to questions.
• Example
• 9-1
• 10
• 9
• 8
• 91
• Where did answer A,B,D come from?

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MATH SKILLS

• Grades 1 2- will have scratch paper to work out
  answers will mark only answers in the book.
• Grades 3, 4, 5 will have scratch paper to work
  out answers will mark answers on the answer
  scantron form.
• Read the problem, draw the problem, solve the
  problem.

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Online practice

• Students can practice tests online using the GA
  OAS website.
• The lab will be open until 1100 today for
  practice.
• We will also have the lab open for online
  practice
• Saturday, March 7th 9-11 am
• Saturday, March 14th 9-11 am
• Adults must accompany students

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• Any Questions????

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GOOD LUCK !!!