Elementary School Assessment and Reporting at IST
Assessment at IST Parent Information Session November 2013
What is Assessment? Gathering of Information Pre DuringPost Knowledge Skills Understandings Attitudes Teacher Student Peers
Analysis of Information Tasks Tools Sorting Labelling DebateWriting Diagram AnecdotalChecklist
Pre Test Model Post Test ChecklistAnecdotal Report Phases Analysis of Information Tasks Tools
Diagnostic Guided Reading Diagnostic Level/BenchmarkAnecdotal Analysis of Information Tasks Tools Continuum
Diagnostic Assessments Meaning Background/context Structure How sentences /phrases are built Visual Sounds/Letters/chunks
Diagnostic Assesments
Reading Continuum
Assessment Data
Summarizing & Reporting
Grading System
Read the phase indicator. Which phase are they in? If they are in Emergent and they: Can do ALL of the indicators and some from the proficient phase, then their Grade is 3. Read the phase indicator. Which phase are they in? If they are in Emergent and they: Can do ALL of the indicators and some from the proficient phase, then their Grade is 3. Read books with repetitive texts Uses picture clues and sounds Uses sound- letter relationship and sight words With support retells main events They can do all of these without support Read books with repetitive texts Uses picture clues and sounds Uses sound- letter relationship and sight words With support retells main events They can do all of these without support Report Grade No. is 3
Read the phase indicator. Which phase are they in? If they are in Proficient and they: Can do ALL of the indicators and some from the exceeding phase, then their Grade is 6. Read the phase indicator. Which phase are they in? If they are in Proficient and they: Can do ALL of the indicators and some from the exceeding phase, then their Grade is 6.
Exceeding is Proficient in the Next Grade
Example Outcomes are the same regardless of Grade If the student is not demonstrating all of the descriptors they are in the Emergent phase If the student demonstrates ALL consistently and they are in the Proficient phase
Assessing Transdisciplinary Skills C – The attitude or disposition is ‘Consistently’ evident U – The attitude or disposition is ‘Usually’ evident S – The attitude or disposition is ‘Sometimes’ evident R – The attitude or disposition is ‘Rarely’ evident