STANDARDIZED AND STATE ASSESSMENTS3W Talk

REASONS TO TEST

To recognize areas of strength and weakness To look for discrepancies between subjects or abilities To identify giftedness in one or more areas To help set attainable goals and differentiate for our students

TESTING DATES

Spring Testing – April 28th and 30th

Ohio Achievement Testing in Reading and Math

Fall Testing – October 7th – 18th Iowas and Cognitive Abilities Testing – Nationally Normed Tests,

Multiple Sessions Ohio Achievement Assessment in Reading, One Session

TEST PREPARATION

Classwork, be at school Meet their primary needs – Sleep, Food, Shower, Water,

Encouragement ODE website – Preparation Questions and Practice tests

WHAT TO EXPECT WITH RESULTS

Mid-Year you will receive the test results by mail Iowas and CogAts – a form letter and a second page with

results Remember that these results are normed nationally

OAA – a glossy foldable of your child’s achievement in reading compared to other students in Oakwood and in the State of Ohio Also included is information on your child’s current strengths and

weaknesses with suggestions for assistance and teaching. The OAA’s are not nationally normed and cannot be used to

determine a learning disability or identify giftedness.

HOW TO READ THE OAA 4 Levels

Advanced Students go beyond understanding what they read to explain what they

like or do not.

Accelerated Students understand what they read and compare stories and texts.

Proficient Students understand what they read and try to list important ideas in the

texts.

Basic – not a passing score, You will receive a letter from the district discussing the 3rd Grade Guarantee

Students understand some of what they read. They use strategies to learn new words.

Limited – Not a passing score – You will receive a letter from the district discussing the 3rd Grade Guarantee

Students struggle with simple reading tasks.

AREAS EVALUATED IN THE READING OAA

Acquisition of Vocabulary Identify and read new words and word parts Use Context Clues and word parts to make meaning

Reading Process Use reading strategies for understanding List, recall, summarize

Informational Text Use text features Draw conclusions from charts, graphs and diagrams

Literary Text Compare and Contrast plots of different stories Retell what happens in a story Explain different genres of literature

HOW TO READ THE COGATS Cognitive Abilities Test

Measures students’ learned reasoning abilities developed both in and out of school

Gifted Qualifying Score – 129 and above on the entire battery

Verbal Battery Assesses ability to use search, retrieval and comparison processes Analogies, Sentence Completion, Classification

Quantitative Battery Assesses ability to reason about patterns and relations Number Analogies, Number Puzzles, Number Series

Nonverbal Battery Assesses students’ abilities to reason with somewhat more novel

questions that use spatial and figural content. Figure Matrices, Paper Folding, Figure Classification

ABOUT THE IOWAS

Iowa Tests Students took 2 of 13 Assessments Reading (Vocabulary and Comprehension) and Math (Concepts,

Problem Solving and Estimation) Vocabulary – word in the context of a short phrase or sentence

Comprehension – reading passages from multiple genres, 2/3 of the questions require the students to infer or generalize

Math Concepts – demonstrate understanding of ideas, relationships and visual representations

Problem-Solving – Word Problems that require one or more steps to solve

Test of Achievement, Different than Ability Qualifying Score for Gifted Services, 98th and 99th percentile

RESPONSE TO TEST INFORMATION

Keep in mind that it is one piece of information – Other Curriculum based measures and assessments can provide more specific information

Gifted Services in 4th-6th grade Teach above grade-level material where necessary Response to Intervention in Reading or math – RIMP,

focus on specific skills and strategies to track Continue Teaching Grade Level objectives

GIFTED SERVICE OPTIONS

No K - 3rd Grade Gifted Services 6th Grade –

1 or 2 Seminar Offerings based on Testing Data Gifted Intervention Specialist Service in Reading with Qualifying Score Gifted Intervention Specialist in Math with Qualifying Score

5th Grade – 1 or 2 Seminar Offerings based on Testing Data Gifted Intervention Specialist Service in Reading with Qualifying Score Gifted Intervention Specialist in Math with Qualifying Score

4th Grade – 1 or 2 Seminar Offerings based on Testing Data Gifted Intervention Specialist Service in Reading with Qualifying Score