Elementary School Assessment and Reporting at IST

Assessment at IST

Parent Information Session November

2013

What is Assessment?

Gathering of Information

Pre During Post

Knowledge Skills Understandings Attitudes

TeacherStudentPeers

Analysis of Information

Tasks

Tools

SortingLabelling

Debate WritingDiagram

Anecdotal Checklist

PreTest

Model PostTest

Checklist Anecdotal Report Phases

Analysis of Information

Tasks

Tools

Diagnostic GuidedReading

Diagnostic

Level/Benchmark Anecdotal

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

Kg G1 G2 G3 G4 G50

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

BelowAt & Above

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 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 .

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