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Kuna Joint District reports NAEP and winter benchmark gains, highlights math improvement
Summary
District Director Kevin Gifford presented NAEP and district benchmark results showing notable math gains across grades, explained measurement methods and cautioned about comparability limits between assessments.
Kevin Gifford, director of assessment for Kuna Joint District, told the school board that recent national and local assessment measures show mixed but encouraging results for the district, with the strongest gains in math.
Gifford told the Board of Trustees that Kuna students ranked above the national average on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in both fourth- and eighth-grade math and reading, and that a separate research scorecard converted NAEP changes into grade-level equivalencies to show Kuna had a 0.36 overall grade-level increase in math across a four-year window and a more than 0.5 grade-level increase in the two years following the pandemic.
The presentation reviewed three data sources: NAEP (a national, externally administered assessment), the district's winter CICA (Short Interim Comprehensive Assessment) benchmarks used as practice ISAT checks, and local progress-monitoring tools (I-Ready math and I-Station reading at the elementary level). Gifford said NAEP charts show Idaho among the top states (fourth- and eighth-grade averages placed Idaho…
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