CAO Meeting

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CAO Meeting

• May 9, 2006

Link on District Home Page
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FCAT Writing
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FCAT Writing Some Q and A

• How are the following results possible?
• FDOEs Scoring Rules
• Combined essay and MC
• Expository essay and/or MC
• Narrative essay and/or MC
• Persuasive essay and/or MC

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FCAT Writing Parent Report
Scale Score
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FCAT Writing Some Q and A

• How is the FCAT Writing scale calculated?
• Scale score is combination of essay and multiple
  choice

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FCAT Writing Parent Report
Reporting Category
L M H
Scale Score
H M L
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FCAT Writing Some Q and A

• How are low, middle, and high scores calculated?
• Scale and Writing Reporting Category
• Relative to performance to others in Florida

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FCAT Writing Some Q and A

• How can I make sense when summarizing reporting
  categories?

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FCAT Writing Some Q and A

• How can I make sense when summarizing reporting
  categories?
• As number of points possible varies, calculate
  percentages of points earned
• Compare to school, district, or State
• We will be doing this for you in the future

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FY2006 Mean Percent Correct Multiple Choice
Questions by Category Grade 4 FCAT Writing
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FY2006 Mean Percent Correct Multiple Choice
Questions by Category Grade 8 FCAT Writing
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FY2006 Mean Percent Correct Multiple Choice
Questions by Category Grade 10 FCAT Writing
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FCAT Writing Reporting Category

• Focus writing for a specific purpose and the
  maintenance of the central idea, theme, or
  unifying point
• Organization using a plan or structure for
  writing and employing transitional devices to
  show relationships between and among ideas

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FCAT Writing Reporting Category

• Support use of details in writing to explain,
  clarify, or define through word choice,
  specificity, depth, relevance, and thoroughness
• Conventions use of conventions of standard
  English for punctuation, capitalization,
  spelling, usage, and sentence structure

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Palm Beach Writes
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Palm Beach WritesFY2006 Data CollectionCompletin
g Roster Scan Sheets

• Elementary, Middle, and High Schools
• Provide summary information on Palm Beach Writes
  before start of next year
• Establish accuracy of Palm Beach Writes as a
  leading indicator system for FCAT essays in FY2007

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Palm Beach WritesFY2006 Data CollectionCompletin
g Roster Scan Sheets

• At this point in the year,
• If you have completed the task
• Thank you

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Palm Beach WritesFY2006 Data CollectionCompletin
g Roster Scan Sheets

• At this point in the year,
• If you havent and want the information, you
  have until the end of this school year
• If you havent and dont want the information,
  then dont do it
• In either case, thank you

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Palm Beach WritesFY2007 Data CollectionCompletin
g Roster Scan Sheets

• FY2007 procedures will be developed with
  additional principals input and shared before
  start of school year

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Draft FY2007 Districtwide Test and Survey Schedule

• What you have?
• How we got here?
• Elementary principals Assessment Committee
• Secondary principals Assessment Committee
• Central-office departments
• Whats next?
• Meet with the principals committee to finalize

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Questions We Have Pondered

• What students are supposed to know and are able
  to do?

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Questions We Have Pondered

• How good is good enough?

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Questions We Have Pondered

• Are we doing what we said we would do?

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Questions We Have Pondered

• Is it working?

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When will Spring Diagnostics Reports arrive?

• Grades 2-5
• Thursday

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When will our FCAT results arrive?

• Grades 4-10
• Middle to end of May
• School Grades
• Beginning to middle of June