SRI Overview

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SRI Overview

• Presented by
• Linda Douglas (Teaching Specialist)
• Marcia Jeans(Instructional Tech)
• Terry Behrendt (Grants Department)

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What is SRI?

• Scholastic Reading Inventory
• fast and accurate way to assess student reading
  levels and monitor reading progress.

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Why SRI was Purchased.

• Nationally validated assessment for reading
  comprehension
• A number of schools wanted to buy SRI and it was
  cheaper to volume purchase for the district
• Need a uniform formative assessment across the
  district (There are many different reading
  programs in the district!)

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Appropriate Use

• Monitor student progress across their reading
  career
• Identify appropriate books for students to read
  based on a Lexile score and interest survey
• To become a predictor to identify appropriate
  techniques and strategies for reading for the
  district
• Target intervention programs to address student
  needs

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Advantages

• Quick 20-30 minutes (1st test a little longer)
• Aligns with marketed materials Lexile scores
• Creates personalized reading list for each
  studentreflecting interests and ability
• Helps you make library purchases wisely
• Not a timed test

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More Advantages

• Real passages from books
• Every machine can have SRI on it as long Pent II
  or above and connected to server
• Can help prepare for on-line state testing in
  reading
• In Kansas it has been used to document AYP
  requirements if not meeting AYP state test

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How is SRI different than Star?

• Star is a basic vocabulary test. You get a grade
  level equivalent based on the results of the
  test.
• SRI is a reading comprehension test. You get a
  Lexile score based on the results of the test.

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General Guidelines

• Test up to 5 times a year (Maximum)
• at least 3 times a year (Recommended)
• NOT pre post
• Automatic exports will occur quarterly
• Each school has licenses for grades 3-12
• Tamara must approve variations
• Every machine can have SRI on it as long they
  meet software requirements

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Guidelines Continued..

• Only 30 students at any given time should be
  testing
• Dont use wireless technology
• After initial import from eSIS, new students are
  entered manually at the site
• Lexile of about 1000 or above to pass 8th grade
  state reading test (based on KC information)

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Testing

• They type in their full legal name with a space
  between first and last name
• Read a passage make decision or inference
• Get a question right go up 50 Lexile points.
  Miss a question go down 50 Lexile points
• Can skip 3 questions save those for the
  questions that are really hard. Students should
  use wisely
• Doesnt tell you if you get a question right or
  wrong

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Password

• first initial of first name and first initial of
  last name, then birth date.
• For a school to test John Bob Jones, born on
  February 10, 1994.  Password would be JJ021094 
• (The Birth date is set up as 2 digit month, 2
  digit date, and 2 digit year with no spaces or
  dashes)

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Expectations Elementary Schools

• Required in all schools
• Available Elementary Schools 3rd grade 5th
  grade
• SRI Reading Scores posted to the Datawarehouse
  (Last or Highest Score)
• 5th grade student results will be exported and
  shared with middle schools

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Expectations - Middle Schools

• All middle schools are using SRI now
• Will continue to use SRI
• Use data as common reading assessment for 6th,
  7th, and 8th.
• MIS has imported data and put into a report that
  will be sent to high schools for transitioning
  8th graders.

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Expectations - High Schools

• Expand implementation to more schools
• Focus on freshman and sophomores to identify
  students who need additional skills development
• Students identified with reading deficiencies
  will be placed in intervention programs

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Other Programs Associated with SRI

• Read 180
• Read 180 class is limited to 15 students in
  middle school and 21 students in high school
• Very complex program needs to be on an isolated
  system unlike SRI
• Used in 8 middle schools and plans for expansion
  into all middle schools fall 2004
• Used at North and West - additional Read 180 labs
  will be added next year at high school

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Other Programs Associated with SRI

• Reading Counts
• Is aligned with SRI (similar to Star and AR)
• If you have AR and want to add Reading Counts,
  you can do it for free.
• Technical aspects of this conversion will be
  coordinated by Library Media Services
• Conversion to Reading Counts is a site based
  decision
• Reading Counts includes 30 questions for each
  book. This allows 3 quiz options.

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Maintenance of SRI

• 1 person needs to be identified in the building
  as the SRI administrator (STS?) and will be
  responsible for
• Enrolling new students
• Un-enrolling students leaving the building (dont
  delete) unless moving on to middle school/high
  school (uncheck SRI only)
• STS should back up server data on a regular basis
  (especially after testing)

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When Manually Adding a Student

• Use legal Name from eSIS First and Last
• Current grade level of student
• Student ID
• Make sure you are entering and exiting students
  from the system on a regular basis.

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How Lexile Scores Work
Rasch-based Linear Measurement
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Lexile Lingo

• What is Lexile Measure?
• Lexile is a number indicating the reading
  difficulty of a book or text. It is measured in
  terms of both vocabulary and sentence length.
• What is the Lexile Scale range?
• The Lexile scale ranges from 100 to 1700 Lexiles,
  although actual Lexile measures can range from
  below zero to above 2000 Lexiles.

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Lexile Lingo Continued

• What does the Student Lexile Score mean?
• The Student Lexile Score gives an indication of
  what level a student is reading. For instance, if
  a student is assigned a lexile score of 600L, he
  or she can read with 75 comprehension books that
  are rated on the 600L level. Books rated at
  higher lexiles will present a greater reading
  challenge for the student, and books at lower
  lexiles will be easier reading.

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Who can use Lexile Scores?

• Teachers to compensate for difference between
  student reading comprehension levels and the
  readability of assigned texts to set and track
  goals for independent reading
• Parents to help children pick appropriate level
  books to read at home
• Librarians to help students select appropriate
  level books to read
• Students to help students self select
  appropriate level books

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General Guidelines for Instructional Purposes

• Independent level (easy)- read down 250 Lexile
  points
• Guided Reading (avg.) - 50 above to 100 below
  Lexile points
• Instructional (challenge) 250 Lexile points
  above
• Students should experience 4 easy or average
  level texts for every 1 challenging level text.

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How can Teachers Help Students?

• Teach vocabulary in context
• Pre-reading support (Wichita Reading Model)
• Lexile.com provides vocabulary exercises (PowerV
  Program) and worksheets for many popular novels
  and textbooks.
• Search novels and textbooks by title to find
  scores. Search for lists of grade appropriate
  books.

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Resources

• SRI demo
• http//teacher.scholastic.com/products/sri/overvie
  w/howitworks.htm
• SRI reports
• http//teacher.scholastic.com/products/sri/overvie
  w/viewreports.htm
• Lexile Chart
• http//teacher.scholastic.com/products/sri/pdfs/Le
  xile_Map.pdf

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• SRI FAQ
• http//teacher.scholastic.com/products/sri/overvie
  w/faq.htm
• SRI Test Taking Tips (handout)
• Your USD 259 Web support

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Who do you call for help?

• Help desk technical issues 3-help
• Non-technical issues Linda Douglas
• 3-3406 and Terry Behrendt 3-4552
• Technical and use of application - Marcia Jeans
  3-4512

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Questions????