South Montgomery Community Schools

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South Montgomery Community Schools

• ISTEP Analysis
• Fall 2007

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Whats New in ISTEP World

• Online results can be accessed with a login and
  password-logins can be made for teachers
• Less paper reports with more online results being
  made available
• Availability of clicking on a reported item and
  having the item pop up in a PDF form so teachers
  can have quick access to the tested item
• New assessment plan from the State will provide
  formative assessments in grades K-2
  (mCLASSReading 3D and mCLASSMath)
• New assessment plan from the State to provide
  formative, diagnostic, predictive program with
  Acuity formative assessments for grades 3-8
• End of Course Assessments in English 10, Algebra
  1 replace the GQE

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ISTEP Fall 2007 Percent Passing ISTEP
Those items in color, met or exceeded the state
average.
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ISTEP 2007 Percentage of Special Education
Students Passing
Items in color met or exceeded the state average
percentage of special education students passing
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District ISTEP 2002-2007Percentage Passing for
District
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Fall 2007 ISTEP Median Scale Scores by School
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Areas of Strength

• Language Arts Literary Response and Analysis
  (3,6), Reading Comprehension (4,5), Writing
  Process (7,8,9)
• Math Measurement (5), Problem Solving
  (3,4,7,8,9), Data Analysis and Probability (6),

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Areas of Weakness

• Language Arts Writing Applications (5,6,7,9),
  Language Conventions (3,4), Literary Response and
  Analysis (7), Reading Vocabulary (8)
• Math Computation (3), Algebra and Functions
  (6), Measurement (4,7), Number Sense (5,8),
  Geometry (9)

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Gender and Free/Reduced Rates in Pass
Rates-Subgroup Categories

• Boys outperform girls in the following subject
  areas 3ELA, 3MA, 4MA, 7MA, 7SCI
• Girls outperform boys in the following subject
  areas4ELA, 5ELA, 5MA, 5SCI, 6ELA, 6MA, 7ELA,
  8ELA, 9ELA, 9MA
• Tie 8MA
• When considering SES (socio-economic status),
  paid students outperform free/reduced students in
  all areas and at all grade levels
• After 3rd grade, boys do not pass ISTEP at the
  same rate as girls do in English/Language
  Arts-historically as well

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What has made the difference

• Saxon math-cycles, spiraling
• Focus on reading comprehension
• Hard work on part of teachers, principals,
  students to work on areas of weakness
• SSP (Student Success Process) for
  elementaries-cycles of reteaching/enrichment
• Jump Start, Project Start
• Assignment of students to math lab or English lab
  when not successful on ISTEP (HS)

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Where to go from here

• Writing Prompts grades k-8 this year
• Using Writing the Simple 6 rubric for assessing
  student writing
• Have to provide more opportunities for kids to
  read and write for authentic purposes
• Have to get boys actively involved in math and
  reading
• Keep working on getting kids to read on grade
  level at minimum