Transcript NYS Assessment Information

NYS Assessment
Information
Spring 2016
LeMoyne Elementary School
2016 Spring NYS Assessments
 English
Language Arts, Tuesday April 5-Thursday April 7
 Mathematics, Wednesday April 13-Friday April 15.
 Start at 9:30 each day
Why is assessment participation
important to our school?
 Preparing
students for success in college and careers
 Critical thinking and complex problem solving
 Objective information on progress toward NYS Learning
Standards
 Providing information to parents
 Shows progress made by the school so that the school
doesn’t get shut down or restructured.
 Placing students in advanced classes or providing them
with intervention services to improve achievement.
Struggles with the testing process
 95%
participation
 Accommodations
 Receiving results late in the summer
 More access to test questions needed to help students
improve
Assessment Myths
 Students
spend too much time taking assessements-1%
 Teachers are fired if the students don’t pass
Expectations for LeMoyne ELA
Assessments
50%
40%
30%
21%
20%
10%
16%
14%
16%
11%
9%
7% 11%
2%
0%
Grade 3
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Grade 5
2014
2015
2016
Expectations for LeMoyne Math
Assessments
50%
45%
40%
35%
31%
30%
30%
25%
26%
20%
20%
14%
15%
10%
15%
14%
5%
7%
9%
0%
Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
2014
2015
2016
Let’s Learn More About This Year’s
Assessments
 Amy
Landes-LeMoyne’s English Language Arts
Instructional Coach
 Marianne
Coach
Oliver-LeMoyne’s Mathematics Instructional
NYS Assessment Sample Questions
 https://www.engageny.org/resource/released-2015-3-8-
ela-and-mathematics-state-test-questions