1. South Carolina Grade Two Fall 2015 Gifted and Talented Testing Program Post-Administration Workshop Presenters: Joe Adduci and Sue Rawls

2. Agenda Talking Points For Today: Review South Carolina Score Reports and Labels Reminder – Make-Up Testing Information Recap of Events Next Steps – Online Survey Q & A 2

3. South Carolina Score Reports Presenter: Joe Adduci

4. Four Types of SC Score Reports Plus Labels Profile Narrative Score Report (Student) List Score Report (Class) School Summary Score Report District Summary Score Report IA ™ and CogAT ® Student Score Labels 4

5. Profile Narrative (Comb) Report  The Profile Narrative is generated for every student.  Both IOWA ™ and CogAT ® data are displayed on this report.

6. The List Report shows the individual student scores and demographic information. Students coded in the Z Column will be displayed on the List Report, but their scores are not included in the group averages. A degree sign (°) next to a student’s name and their scores indicates that they are excluded from averages. 6 List Report (IOWA) Score Report

7. The List Report shows the individual student scores and demographic information. Students coded in the Z Column will be displayed on the List Report, but their scores are not included in the group averages. A degree sign (°) next to a student’s name and their scores indicates that they are excluded from averages. 7 List Report (CogAT) Score Report

8. School Summary Score Report The school summary report provides mean scores for each subtest on the IOWA ™ and CogAT ® at the school level. New this year - The CogAT ® summaries are reported separately. 8 School name and code reported here

9. School Summary Score Report This report shows the age-based CogAT ® results for verbal, quantitative, nonverbal and composite scores. This gives the school a “snapshot” of the total number of students tested, the averages, and an age-percentile ranking. 9 School name reported here

10. The district summary report provides the mean scores for each subtest on the Iowa ™ and CogAT ® (on a separate report) at the district level. Students coded in the Z Column are not included in the averages. Statistics for the District, School and Class Summary Reports are based on the number of students tested and the actual number of students included in each subtest. 10 District Summary Score Report District name reported here

11. South Carolina Student Score Labels Two Different Types – Iowa ™ and CogAT ® Presenter: Joe Adduci

12. IOWA Student Score Labels 12 A Student Score Label is generated for every student. The Iowa ™ and CogAT ® Labels are generated separately. Each label displays the student’s name, demographic information, ID number and the Secondary Student ID or PowerSchool ID numbers.

13. CogAT Student Score Labels A Student Score Label is generated for every student. The Iowa ™ and CogAT ® Labels are generated separately. Each label displays the student’s name, demographic information, and ID number. 13

14. CogAT ® Ability Profile System Presenter: Sue Rawls

15. Cognitive Abilities Test ™ CogAT ® Form 7 These three batteries focus on reasoning abilities most related to academic success: 1. Verbal a)Picture Analogies b)Sentence Completion c)Picture Classification 2. Quantitative a)Picture Analogies b)Sentence Completion c)Picture Classification 3. Nonverbal a)Figure Matrices b)Paper Folding c)Figure Classification 15

16. Easy as 1-2-3! 16 CogAT ® Ability Profiles make it easy to link assessment to instruction 1 3 2

17. Ability Profile System 17 Locate Individual Ability Profile 1

18. Ability Profile System 18 Enter Profile Score on Web 2

19. Ability Profile System 19 View Instructional Strategies 3

20. Important links for CogAT™ http://www.riversidepublishing.com/products/group/coga t6/input.jsp This is the CogAT™ Web site hosted at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 20

21. Presenter: Joe Adduci Fall 2015 Make-Up Administration Window: January 14-21, 2016

22. Fall 2015 Make-Up Administration Districts match scores and reconcile any discrepancies with Riverside: 12/11/15 – 1/4/16 Districts order make-up test materials from Riverside: 1/8/16 SC Make-Up Testing Window: 1/14/16 – 1/21/16 22

23. Fall 2015 Make-Up Administration Districts ship materials to Riverside: 1/24/16 Materials returned to Riverside: 1/22/16 (date of arrival) Districts receive test results: 2/17/16 23

24. Fall 2015 Make-Up Administration If students were absent during the testing window, every effort should be made to include these students in the make-up test administration. 24

25. Presenter: Joe Adduci Recap of Events

26. UPS RS shipping labels, blue nonscorable & orange scorable labels: Contract Operations handled extra shipments of blue, orange and UPS shipping labels expediently. This was the third year HMH used pre-printed UPS RS labels. Only a couple districts had some issues with UPS picking up their test materials and Joe provided our shipping account #RV7-896. There were fewer calls this year since HMH had updated all district shipping addresses in our UPS database system for UPS pick-ups. This year there were NO districts that HMH/Riverside had to pre-pay in advance for UPS pick-ups since we added all addresses in system. 26

27. Recap of Events Truck pick-ups for the larger districts: There was already a formal process in place for year #2 with South Carolina since we implemented last year. –However this year we increased the number of truck pick-ups to 17 total districts. –There were 8 districts that needed special handling since they did not have the ability to palletize & shrink-wrap the boxes. –Overall, it went smoothly and our freight truck vendor (YRC) did pick up on the promised date, but later in the afternoon due to truck deliveries being made in the morning hours. 27

28. Presenter: Joe Adduci Next Steps

29. Next Steps – Online Survey An online survey will be e-mailed to all DTC’s between Friday (12/18) – Wednesday (12/23) to solicit feedback on the Fall 2015 test administration experience. Feedback responses will be due back no later than Friday, January 8, 2016. Results will be shared with the South Carolina Department of Education. 29

30. Questions?