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Board hears milestone and state assessment update; officials flag math proficiency and K–2 assessment questions
Summary
Associate Superintendent Cindy Barris presented district milestone and state-assessment data, reporting milestone-bank development by teachers, concerns about math proficiency statewide and locally, and a vendor claim about the K–2 Istation/Amira product not being intended for proficiency determinations.
Associate Superintendent Cindy Barris told the Silver Consolidated Board of Education during its October meeting that the district is building teacher-created milestone assessments intended to predict state-assessment performance and to guide classroom instruction.
Barris said teachers have been moving from outside-created scope and sequence documents to locally updated scope-and-sequence materials and that teachers are now developing assessment banks to produce 25-question milestone checks tied to standards. She told the board the work was slowed by a summer funding freeze that interrupted planned milestone-bank completion, but principals and teachers have asked to join the committees producing the tests.
Barris also reviewed statewide testing results for K–12. She said…
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