I've been following the conversation and Liz, our district has developed formatives and summatives for ELA and math. We have 2 formstive ELA tests and then a trimester. We have the students use bubble sheets and then scan the information into Measures/Datawise. It complies the info for individual classes and a grade level and breaks it down by standards. It's very handy when looking for strengths and weaknesses. Because my school is program improvement we went to workshops where we developed learning cycles using the standards that are "red" occur mostly on the state test. We do a pretest, teach, post test, reteach (rti) and go on. It's very handy. Each grade level has 90 minutes a week to look at data and determine the direction for the grade level. We share strategies and encouragement. My principal is awesome. She gives us leeway to group the children in flexible ways. The teacher with the highest scores shares strategies and usually takes the reteach group. Students who master the skill on the pretest (show mastery) go to an enrich group. We had good results last year and are refining it for next year. Hope this helps, Brenda CA/4 _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org
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