NECAP

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NECAP

• New England Common Assessment Program
• Cranston Public Schools
• Dr. Judy Lundsten, Executive Director of
  Educational Programs and Services
• Deborah Mellion, Director of Literacy Title I

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Test Design

• Collaborative effort of education departments
  RI, NH, and VT
• Standards referenced test of grade level
  expectations (GLEs/GSEs)
• October testing of previous years GLEs
• Reading, Writing, and Mathematics
• All grades in Cranston take the same test on the
  same day

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Test Design

• An on-demand test
• Not a timed test
• Three days of testing, 45 minutes each day
• Grades 3-8 take reading week 1, math week 2
  grades 5 8 take writing week 3
• Grade 11 takes writing week 1, reading week 2,
  and math week 3

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Test Design

• Accommodations are available for children who
  need them (case by case basis)
• Modifications are not allowable
• 25 of the test items are released each year for
  practice
• 4 types of questions
• Multiple Choice
• Short Answer
• Constructed Response
• Extended Response

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Six Strands in Reading

• Word identification Skills and Strategies
• Vocabulary
• Initial Understanding of Literacy Text
• Analysis and Interpretation of Literary Text
• Initial Understanding of Informational Text
• Analysis and Interpretation of Informational Text

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Four Strands in Math

• Numbers and operations
• Geometry and Measurement
• Functions and Algebra
• Data, Statistics and Probability
• Math test can be read aloud
• No calculators in session 1
• Calculators allowed in sessions 2 and 3
• Manipulatives, rulers, protractors, and scratch
  paper are used reference sheets grades 5 6

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5 Strands in Writing

• Structures of Language
• Writing in response to Literacy or Informational
  text
• Narratives
• Informational writing
• Writing Conventions

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Types of Reports

• Individual Student Report
• Item Analysis Report
• School Results Report
• School Summary Report
• District Summary Report
• www.ride.ri.gov, click on State Testing and
  Reporting or NECAP Results

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School Report NightsSchools report on NECAP
achievement

• Individual Student Reports
• Sent home with spring report cards

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FERPAFamily Educational Rights and Privacy Act

• Access to individual student results is
  restricted to the student, the students
  parents/ guardians, and authorized school
  personnel.
• Superintendents and principals are responsible
  for maintaining the privacy and security of all
  student records