1. The Meitzav The LOTS & HOTS OF IT
A PPT by
Ora Freitzis
edited by
Judy Mutzari
2012

2. What is it really? The Meitzav is a National Test Developed by RAMA
Reflecting :
the Curriculum and the Standards
knowledge acquisition
thinking processes

3. The Meitzav An Achievement Test
The Purpose:
The Abbreviation:
To heighten the responsibility and accountability of teachers and their schools regarding the achievements of their students in the following domains:
Access to Information from spoken and written texts
Presentation in writing :
Objective: information
Subjective: ideas
מיצ"ב: מדדי יעילות וצמיחה בית ספרית
הערכה מסכמת, "הערכה של למידה" : הש"ל

4. The Meitzav assesses student proficiency of skills in the following domains:
Access to written and oral Information
Presentation of information and personal responses

5. How can we prepare for it?
Diagnostic Testing:
Administering an initial and a post test
2. Dynamic Mapping:
Follow up - a continuous tracking of change and development by domains over time

6. Meitzav Folder: The initial mapping
Intervention plans on a classroom level following the mapping
Intervention plans on a Partani level
Dynamic Mapping – tracking of individual differences over time
Dates of unit exams, practice Meitzav exams, and a pre-meitzav exam

7. Begin with the end in mind and map out the steps to get you there:
Backward Design
Begin with the end in mind and map out the steps to get you there:
Identify Learning Goals:
What do you want students to know?
What do you want students to be able to do?
Why is this difficult for them to know\ do on their own?
Determine acceptable evidence:
How will you know that they got there?
How will you assess that they got there?
How can we help students learn what is needed to be successful?

8. A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.
Name
Text type
Understand the main ideas
Sequence of events
Extract inf. from visual data
Locate relevant inform.
Integration
Inference
Dina
Informative text
O.K.
Failed
Sima

9. Worth having for practice:
Entire Meitzav – תשע"ב (pdf or Word format)
Audio Recording
Text for audio recording
Table of Specifications, 2012

10. High Frequency Words Dolch Word List: consists of 220 “sight words”
Comprises 50-75% of all the words found in school books, library books, newspapers, and magazines
Vocabulary of pre-school – through grade 3
Sight words are words that cannot be sounded out because they do not follow decoding rules
cannot be learned through the use of pictures

11. Teach Verb Collocations: suggestions
Talk to the class about
talk with a friend
wear a hat
start to cook
finished school
worked too fast
heard something funny
was very tired
have\has a surprise for
make food, make noise
wrote about, read about, speak about,
study for tests, study together
have a good time, have a lot of fun, had a great day
feed the animals
came to visit
something happened
See you tomorrow
get wet
play in the pool

12. Access to Information from spoken texts – 25%
Possible Tasks:
Possible Text Types:
advertisement
announcement
conversation
excerpt from a
lesson
instructions
message
news / weather
report
oral presentation
story
Vocabulary: high frequency words
Level 1 up to 80 seconds, level 2 up to 120 seconds.
carrying out
instructions
chart / table
matching
multiple-choice
open-ended (e.g.
wh-questions and
sentence completion)
sequencing

13. מיצ"ב 2012
Listening task 1: Choose the five pictures of the areas the guide describes (map of the park)
Strategies to focus on:
Task 2: read the questions before you listen (elicit information, prediction)
Multiple choice: integrate, put pieces of information together.
Tony is talking to the class about his: son, work, favorite food, new restaurant

14. Strategy: Read the questions before you listen!
When did Tony start to cook? –
when he opened his restaurant
when he was 25 years old
when he finished school when he was a child
“When I was 11 years old…”
HOTS

15. Access to Information from Written Text 60%
Benchmarks:
Possible Text Types ad
book cover
comic strip
diary entry,
informative text
letter
Message
news report, newspaper item,
note, postcard
Poster
questionnaire
Recipe
Story
timetable, schedule
web page.
Understand general meaning, main ideas, sequence of events
Locate relevant information
Identify different text types
Identify explicit opinions and feelings
Find out and follow short instructions
Extract information from visual data
Use simple information tools such as a glossary

16. Task 3, 4, 6 - reading
Match sentences about different books to their covers: Children write about the animals they have in their homes– “Kids and Pets”
Sara needs quiet to study for tests – “Next week, I have two tests and I can’t study when Dina makes noise”
Dina and Sara usually have a good time together “They have a lot of fun together.”

17. Strategies: Find the main ideas Why do kids write to Eric?
The sequence of events
Locate relevant information
Why do kids write to Eric?
Amira likes animals. How do we know?
What is the text about?

18. Access to information from written text: 3 tasks
Sentence structure:
simple sentences and some compound ones
Vocabulary:
familiar or personal themes
Verbs:
past simple, present simple, future simple, present progressive, imperative
Length of text:
1st: up to 150 words
2nd: up to 170 words
Possible item types:
chart
matching
multiple choice
open-ended including wh-questions
sentence completion

19. Possible Categories of Comprehension
Literal Comprehension: (LOTS)
Questions that can be answered directly from the text.
They can be questions that require either copying or rephrasing of information from the text: where, what, why, when, who, how

20. Higher –Order Thinking Skills (HOTS)
Integration - information from various parts of the text in order to answer question, how ideas or information in the passage relate to each other.
Inference: refers to an understanding of the implicit (expressed in an indirect way) meaning of a text. Combining the pupils’ literal understanding of the text with their own knowledge and experience in order to produce a response that is explicitly stated in the text.

21. Written Presentation – 15% 4-5 sentences, 20-30 words
Possible Text Types:
Assessment criteria and Accuracy:
Description
Friendly letter
Invitation
List
Note
Questionnaire
Report
Speech bubble
Story
Comprehensibility
relevance
Accuracy:
articles
capitalization
full stops
Pronouns
spelling
verb form
word order

22. Nothing Succeeds Like Success!
“ It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves”
William Shakespeare

23. Credits
Teaching and Learning Excellence – for backward design:
Doltch Word List: