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What is Annual Yearly Progress (AYP)
When George W. Bush signed NCLB in 2002 all schools were required to show they had passed this measure to prove they successfully educate students
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What is Race to the Top (RTT)
This competitive grant encouraged states to adopt the common core standards through a points system
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What is a formative evaluation/assessment/test
A diagnostic test used to adjust future teaching, lessons, or tools
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What is the PIA (Paced Interim Assessment)
On mclass you can see exactly which question your student got wrong and the answer they chose on this assessment
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Who are the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO)
The National Governors Association and this group teamed up to develop the Common Core Standards
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What is the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)
The Obama administration cleverly ditched their predecessor's title for federal education policy in favor of this original title
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What is a summative evaluation/assessment/test
This type of test shows a snapshot of learning at particular point in time
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What is Dibels (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills)
This assessment gives a composite score 3 times a year but can also be used to check progress every 10 days
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What is the PARCC (Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers)
Next year DC will adopt this assessment to replace teh DC-CAS
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What is Scope and Sequence
This document created by DCPS guides teachers through the common core standards
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What is NAEP (National Association of Educational Progress)
This "nation's report card" is a sample snapshot of students and does not show individual student improvement
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What is Achievement (Network/ANET)
This network allows you to see which standard your student needs help on
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What is the DC-BAS
This interim assessment was replaced by multiple tests chosen by each school in 2010.
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What is 5 (Alaska, Texas, Nebraska, Virginia, and Minnesota)
The number of states that have not fully adopted the common core standards
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What are Dibels and Fountas & Pinnell
These 2 tests can measure individual student growth
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What is MAP (Measure of Academic Progress)- NWEA also acceptable
This assessment's scores are on an equal interval scale and have the same meaning no matter grade or age of student
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What is Burst
This literacy program is associated with Dibels but is not necessary to get the scores
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What is TRC (Text Reading Comprehension)
This 3 letter assessment determines a student's instructional reading level using a combination of accuracy, oral comprehension, and written comprehension
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What is Fountas & Pinnell
This assessment's letter score can be mapped onto a text level to find books that match the student's reading ability
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