Assessment Communication
November 11, 2020
" I like a teacher who gives me something to take home to think about besides homework.” – Lily Tomlin
KISD Assessment Dept.
NEW for 2019- 2020 The official hashtag of Keller ISD is... (drumroll please...) #CelebrateKISD!
Website: http://portal.kellerisd.net/functions/learning/assessment/Campus%20Administrator%20Assessment%20Reminder%20Charts/KConnect%20Assessment%20Site%2012-13.aspx
Location: 350 Keller Parkway, Keller, TX, United States
Phone: 817.744.1219
Twitter: @KISDASSESSMENT
Upcoming Common Assessments
State Assessment Sub Allotment
Please make sure you follow up with the individual who manages your budget to confirm that they have received this information.
DCAs due Nov. 15th:
4th grade math
7th grade social studies
Guidance for 4th grade Writing benchmark:
I will provide information in the newsletter this week, but I wanted to clarify a few questions that we are getting.
Once your students take the Rev/Editing benchmark, you can scan those into AWARE.
Your ELA coaches are making appointments with you to take your teachers through a thin-slicing activity. Once the writing has been scored, teachers will enter the writing scores into AWARE through the inventory assessment. (this is available now) This is the same way that they entered DCA writing at the beginning of the year.
The inventory is named " Released STAAR Writing Test 1 GR04 2019 - 2020 Prompt ". Instead of entering scores on a 1-9 scale, your teachers will enter whole numbers on a 0-4 scale.
After you enter your scores into AWARE, please scan your writing samples and upload them to your secure folder "2019-2020 November Benchmark Essays".
Since the Units of Study rubric includes the option of a student scoring a 1.5, 2.5 or 3.5, teachers should round down so that a whole number is entered into AWARE.
In order for your answer documents to scan, teachers will need to bubble in a 0 on question 25.
Interim Assessments:
Some of you will begin to administer Interim Assessments. We have created a few documents to help your teachers.
1- How to administer Interim Assessments
2- How to look up Interim Assessment scores in ETS
Please note that we will load the scores into AWARE on Thursdays. The benefit of teachers going into ETS is to see the test questions and answer choices.
Please feel free to share with teachers as needed.
https://sites.google.com/kellerisd.net/kisdassessment/interim-assessments
High School Specifics - National Assessment Resources/ Released exams posted on our site
Dec Annual Assessment training will take place at our November 12 HS Assessment Meeting. We will give you your assessment notebook at that time. Linked below is the STAAR EOC checklist. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mEJSvjg5Aa-P5_L8RTpUT370_BIxbONuTa7RhbUnQ7g/edit
Dec. EOC Initial shipments are posted in this link:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1h1sA51-E43AnsritGoopwsgHFMUun6Vt
Action Required Nov. 8th/ Friday:
- Technology Information for December EOC Testing Please complete the information for technology.
- Compliance Deadline for DEC. EOC Sped,504, and RTI meetings
ACT Manuals Uploaded to our assessment site, pls make sure you have the manuals and other resources available.
Nov 12th HS CTC Meeting Agenda - please insert anything more/ different you would like to ensure we cover.
We have started creating common training for SAT/ ACT School day administration with the resources currently available. Please feel free to take a look and add anything! Just don't delete anything just yet. We will visit more on this at our November meeting.
Repeat:
3 Year Grad Guidance/ Students needing an EOC Exam, Pls Read: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1mjI9LsVZ-ww5MGJYbRDSCnemSTDGxQWI
National Recognition, please update spreadsheet as your campus receives notification via USPS mail: (Many dept. use this for publications, presentations...)
1. Feb 4 - finalist names mailed
2. Feb 11- finalist names mailed
TSI Account Users have been updated for another year. CTCs please login in and see that all who need a user account have one. If there is anyone missing, please email marjorie.martinez@kellerisd.net to get this set up.