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District to use PSAT knowledge-and-skills reports to target instruction, staff say
Summary
District staff showed trustees a new skills-insight report tied to PSAT domains and cut scores (e.g., grade-level proficiency cut points) to help identify skills gaps and prioritize instruction across buildings.
District staff described a new knowledge-and-skills report for PSAT/SAT domain analysis that breaks down what students have demonstrated by score band and what skills to target to move students to higher bands. The presenter explained the report shows where students in a band have proven certain skills and what they need to do to reach proficiency, and that trustees can click into details that compare district bands with state percentages.
The presentation included cut-score examples used for college-readiness benchmarks (for example, an 8th-grade reading-and-writing proficiency cut score of about 390 and a corresponding math cut score around 430 on the PSAT scale) and staff said the report will inform building- and classroom-level goals and interventions.
