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Garden City USD 457 officials outline first-year results from new state assessment, show district below state averages
Summary
District curriculum leaders presented the first results from Kansas’s redesigned state assessment, describing baseline data that generally place Garden City below statewide averages and outlining how the district will use the results to guide curriculum work and targeted interventions.
Garden City USD 457 curriculum and instruction leaders on Thursday gave the Board of Education a first look at local results from Kansas’s newly redesigned statewide student assessment, saying the data provide a baseline and showing Garden City scored below state averages in most grades and subjects.
Dr. Virginia Duncan, director of secondary instruction, and Heather Stegman, director of elementary instruction, joined Michelle Beyer, curriculum and assessment coordinator, to walk trustees through how the state reset performance-level descriptors and cut scores this year and why comparisons with prior assessments are not valid. “They changed the words on the performance level descriptors,” Duncan said, noting level 3 is now labeled “proficient.” The district received scores last month…
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