Transcript ACT Explore - Elizabethtown Independent School District

TKS Student Test Results
Spring & Fall 2012
Tests
• Kentucky Performance Rating for
Educational Progress (K-PREP)
• Administered May 2012
• Kentucky test aligned with the Common Core
• Practice Explore
• Administered September 2012
• Practice test (year old Explore test) for 7th Graders
who will take Explore as 8th graders.
Kentucky Performance Rating
for Educational Progress
(K-PREP)
Spring 2012
New Standards, New Tests
and New Scores
Preparing Kentucky’s Students for College and Career
• LEGISLATION ENACTED by the Kentucky General
Assembly in 2009 mandated new, more rigorous academic
standards and new state tests. Two years later, Kentucky
became the first of 46 states to adopt what are called the
Common Core State Standards in math and English (science
and social studies standards are still being developed). These
became the Kentucky Core Academic Standards, and they
were incorporated into the state’s classrooms beginning in the
2011-12 school year.
The Kentucky Chamber Foundation
Comparing the old standards
to the new
Here is an example of a standard for 6th grade reading. The first
version is what Kentucky had in place before; the second is the
new standard.
PREVIOUS STANDARD
• Students will apply knowledge of synonyms
or antonyms to comprehend a passage.
• Students will select, based on context, the
appropriate meaning for a word that has
multiple meanings.
New Standard
• Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning
words and phrases based on grade 6 reading and content, choosing
flexibly from a range of strategies.
• Use content (e.g. the overall meaning of a sentence or paragraph, a word’s
position or function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word or
phrase.
• Use common, grade-appropriate Greek or Latin affixes and roots as clues
to the meaning of a word (e.g. audience, auditory, audible).
• Consult reference materials (e.g. dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses, both
print and digital, to find the pronunciation of a word or determine or
clarify its precise meaning of its part of speech.
• Verify the preliminary determination of the meaning of a word or phrase
(e.g. by checking the inferred meaning in context or in a dictionary).
Preparing for your future
• Similarly challenging standards, which go
deeper every year, are now in place for math
and English/language arts for elementary,
middle and high school students.
• More information, including a complete list of
the new standards, is available at:
corestandards.org.
Your results….
Percentile ranks range from 1 to 99 where 50 reflects average
performance. These scores provide a relative standing of a student compared
to students of the same level who took the Stanford 10 tests at the same time
of year. The rank means that a student’s individual performance was as good
as or better than the performance of that percentage of students across the
nation. For example, an NPR of 68 for a given subject means that the student
scored as well or better than 68% of students from the national sample.
What does the student’s Lexile® and
Quantile® score tell me on the
K-PREP Student Report?
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Lexile® scores describes a student’s reading ability. The Lexile® Framework is a
tool for looking at reader ability relative to the difficulty of text. Students can use
the score to logon to the website, www.lexile.com, and search for books at their
particular Lexile® range and reading level.
Quantile® scores describes a student’s mathematic achievement, and the difficulty
of specific mathematical skills and concepts. For more information about
Quantile® scores visit the website www.quantiles.com.
Practice Explore
Understanding Results:
Identifying Strengths and Weaknesses
Why Take Practice EXPLORE?
 EXPLORE shows you your academic strengths
and weaknesses in English, math, reading, and
science
 By taking the practice test you can address test
taking skills, identify areas of weakness and set
goals to improve your performance for 8th
Explore.
 Be proactive!!!
Study Skills Checklist for
Students
 Set a regular time and place to study each day and
throughout the week.
 Keep a daily “to do” list.
 Set goals for yourself.
 Do your reading assignments before the material
is discussed in class.
 Pay close attention and take good notes in class.
 Prepare for tests during your regular study times
instead of cramming at the last minute.
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The Good News:
This is practice…
As a 7th grader you took a test that is
administered in the Fall of 8th grade.
You will be a year older and can be a year wiser
when you take the Explore in September
2013 
Just a Preview
EXPLORE
Score Report
Side 1
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Career Possibilities
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www.explorestudent.org
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