The assessments, which were reviewed at a district workshop, help measure the progress of academic success within the district.
The gist
CCISD tests elementary students in reading and language arts. The district uses the RLA curriculum program, Amplify RLA, to measure academic success through assessments, district documents note.
Compared to the beginning of the year, students in kindergarten through second grade had increased in being at or above benchmark levels, data shows.
District officials also shared results from high priority learning standards scores, which officials described as being more useful for measuring a student’s educational experience, according to district documents.
Each student took a pre-learning assessment to measure their proficiency in various standards, which could revolve around literacy, writing, math or social studies, among other topics, according to district documents.
Students later took another assessment after being taught the learning standards, and took one more assessment after being re-taught the standards, officials said.
While scores have increased for most grade levels, the only grade that saw a decrease was intermediate math.
“We did see a little bit of drop in [intermediate] math,” Sheridan Henley, CCISD’s executive director of assessment and evaluation, said at the workshop. “Upon investigation, we tested five standards total in intermediate math and there was one standard that was significantly lower.”
