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Administrators say new national norms skew Jefferson’s early literacy screening results
Summary
District staff told the board that a national re-norming of the early literacy screener makes year-to-year percentile comparisons unreliable, explains changes to first-grade composite scoring, and noted Act 20 requirements for screening windows and summer progress monitoring.
Katie (presenter) walked the board through the district's early literacy screening data for pre-K through third grade and said a national re-norming of the screener produced major shifts in percentile cutoffs that make direct year-to-year comparisons misleading. "They updated the norms... a student could have scored the exact same raw score," she said, "and that 15 also... might make you fall into a different risk level."
Katie explained that first-grade risk is now based on a composite score that combines several measures rather than a single oral reading fluency…
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