1. Ace it!SM Tutoring Teacher Training
Module 3: Orientation, Assessment and Placement

2. Objectives Understand the Assessments used for “Ace it!” Tutoring
Objectivity and effectiveness
Structure and components
Be able to deliver student orientation and assessments
Be able to place students in the appropriate “Ace it!” Tutoring level based on assessment results
Be able to interpret and communicate assessment results to parents and teachers

3. Purpose
Provide useful information to help place the students at the correct curriculum level.
Guide the students’ instruction and provide helpful feedback on their progress during the course of the program.

4. GRADE and GMADE Group Reading Assessment & Diagnostic Evaluation
Group Math Assessment & Diagnostic Evaluation

5. GRADE and GMADE Nationally standardized Norm-referenced
Developmentally based
Group- or individually administered
K- 8th grade

6. GRADE – Level K for Kindergartners
Subtests:
Phonological Awareness
Sound Matching
Rhyming
Early Literacy Skills
Print Awareness
Letter Recognition
Same & Different Words
Phoneme-Grapheme Correspondence
Word Reading
Listening Comprehension

7. GRADE Level 1 for 1st Graders Level 2 for 2nd Graders
Subtests:
Word Reading
Word Meaning
Sentence Comprehension
Passage Comprehension
Listening Comprehension

8. GRADE - Level 3 for 3rd Graders
Subtests:
Word Reading
Vocabulary
Sentence Comprehension
Passage Comprehension
Listening Comprehension

9. GRADE - Level 4, 5 & 6 for 4th, 5th and 6th Graders
Subtests:
Vocabulary
Sentence Comprehension
Passage Comprehension
Listening Comprehension

10. GRADE - Level M for Middle School Students
Vocabulary
Sentence Comprehension
Passage Comprehension
Listening Comprehension

11. GMADE Subtests Three subtests: Concepts and Communications
Process and Applications
Operations and Computation
Upper Level Subtests
Process Problems

12. Concepts & Communications
Example from Level M
A measure of
how well students
understand the
vocabulary of
mathematics

13. Process and Applications Example from Level 1

14. Operations & Computation
Example from Level 4

15. Process Problem
Example from Level M

16. Testing Philosophy Quiet environment Proctor to supervise
Reading directions exactly as printed in the Teacher’s Administration Manual

17. Orientation and Assessment
Preparation:
Location for assessment delivery
Staffing for orientation and assessment
GRADE or GMADE
Pre-assessment: Form A of student’s grade level
Materials for orientation and assessment

18. Orientation and Assessment
Delivery
Ensure proper room set-up
Prepare student snack
Greet students/get them started
Introduce student motivation program
Review program logistics
Give highlights of the program
Transition to assessment
Follow assessment delivery instructions

19. Things to Remember Conditions affect student results
One assessment is one snapshot of a child
Take the best picture that you can!
First session should be FUN!

20. Scoring GRADE and GMADE software Scoring pre- and post- assessments
Printing reports

21. Scores Available CRITERION RERERENCED SCORES STATUS SCORES
Raw Score……………………... NC
Percent Correct………………….%
STATUS SCORES
Stanines S
Percentile Ranks PR
Standard Scores SS
Normal Curve Equivalents....NCE
GROWTH SCORES
Growth Scale Values GSV
Grade Equivalent …...GE

22. Placement Stanine Placement group 1 or 2
2 levels below student’s grade level 3
1 level below student’s grade level
4, 5, or 6
student’s grade level 7
1 level above student’s grade level
8 or 9
2 levels above student’s grade level

23. Post Assessment 2-hour session Given in regular classroom
Multiple grade levels may be in same group
Every student takes his or her grade level assessment

24. Summary Understand the Assessments Deliver student orientation
Administer the Assessment
Place students
Understand and communicate Assessment results