ISTEP+ Information Night

• Looking at ISTEP+ results• Navigating the state’s data• Understanding the test and testing process• Looking at other data• Using the data for remediation & enrichment• Answering your questions

2009 Spring

Math

2010 Spring Math

2011 Spring Math

2009 Spring Eng/LA

2010 Spring Eng/LA

2011 Spring Eng/LA

2009 Spring

Science

2010 Spring

Science

2011 Spring

Science

3rd 76 77 84 75 81 90      

4th 85 76 82 93 85 88 89 86 81

Looking Online

http://www.doe.in.gov

Assessment at WWESNWEA Measures of Academic Progress (MAP)• Fall, Winter, Spring: 1st – 4th grades• Fall, Spring: Kindergarten• Individualized, self-accommodating• Math/Reading K-1; Math/Reading/LA 2nd-4th Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT)• 3rd Grade (January) & Kindergarten (April)• Meets state-mandated requirement for K-12

ability measurement• Verbal, Quantitative, Non-verbal

Assessment at WWES(continued)

Common Instructional Checks (CICs)• Grades 1 through 4: Beginning of year, end of

trimesters• Core concepts from grade level standardsISTEP+• 3rd and 4th gradesIREAD• 3rd grade

ISTEP+: The Test and Testing Process

Assessment Timeline…Applied Skills: March 5 – March 14

(WWES: March 5 – March 9)

Multiple Choice: April 30 – May 11(WWES: April 30 – May 11)

The Test and Testing Process

Test Content:3rd Grade: Math & Language Arts

(includes reading)4th Grade: Math, Language Arts, &

ScienceTest Format:

Applied Skills (Written response)Multiple Choice (On-line fill-in-the-

bubble)

The Test and Testing Process

What do the questions look like?

Find Item Samplers at http://www.doe.in.gov/ or, more directly…

http://www.doe.in.gov/assessment/3-8_gqe_resources.html

IREAD-3:Indiana Reading Evaluation and

Determination

•New reading assessment for 3rd Graders•Result of Public Law 109 (March 2010)•March 19-21•Possible implications (and exceptions)•MORE INFO AT A LATER DATE!

Other data we use

Summer Success

• 60 of our neediest students coming out of K. and 1st as of March ‘11

• 90 minutes a day, 30 days over the summer• Very small group literacy plus FastForWord• Students will be data-tracked.• Model for the district; more to come

Other Useful Data

• Median RIT scores here and in WWS

• Longitudinal ISTEP passing rates

• Subgroup success (Free/R, Spec Ed, EL)

• DNP vs. NWEA Growth Target

Remediation and Enrichment•Study Clubs/MWMath•RtI •Differentiation•Helping Hands, Pass It On, Tutoring To You