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Charles County presents expanded common-assessment use to track pacing and instruction
Summary
At its April 8 meeting the Board of Education heard a district presentation on common assessments designed to monitor pacing, rigor and student readiness for state tests; specialists described uses in classrooms, participation rates and concerns about computer-based testing for math reasoning.
Charles County Public Schools officials on April 8 outlined how the district is using “common assessments” across grades to monitor curriculum pacing, measure student knowledge at points in time and guide instruction for improved state-test readiness.
Chief of Teaching and Learning Kevin Lowndes told the board the assessments are intended to check pacing and the “depth of our students' knowledge” so teachers can revisit standards that students are missing. He said the district limits when tests are administered so the system stays within Maryland’s state time cap on local assessments.
The presentation focused on how specialists and teachers use item-level data to change instruction. Kim Huddler, elementary reading content specialist, pointed to an example in fifth-grade ELA where “RI 5.3 … 74 percent of our kids…
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