Assessments
As you may have heard, we have been doing DIBELS testing this week. DIBELS is a clever acronym for Dynamic Indicators of Basic and Early Literacy Skills. As a district we have been administering them for about 5 years or so. We will be administering them 3 times a year. I should have them wrapped up by the end of next week.
https://dibels.org/dibels.html
DRAs (Developmental Reading Assessment) will be administered the week of the 15th. They will also be administered 3 times in a year.
http://www.scholastic.com/parents/resources/article/book-selection-tips/assess-dra-reading-levels
http://www.pearsonschool.com/index.cfm?locator=PSZw6f
The ICCSD Math Screener is different this year. There is a computation component (similar to before) and an application component (new for us). They are both short tests: the computation is 4 minutes and the application is 7 minutes. I will be administering it next week. Like the others, they will be administered 3 times a year.
The ICCSD Writing Assessment is from the Houghton/Mifflin/Harcourt language arts materials we are using. It has a prompt and and rubric scoring procedure. It is also given 3 times a year. The first one will be around the end of September.
The Iowa Assessments are given the third week of October. Just once a year!! I usually take about an hour and a half each day. If a student misses a day, they can make it up later in the week or the next week.
If you have any questions about these tests, let me know! And if I don't know, I'll try to find someone who does!
