Assessment

District Assessment Window Calendar 2015-2016 - Click Here.

For specific building test dates refer to the Starke Outlook Calendar.

Assessment Overview

Performance Series - Performance Series is an online standards-based, computer-adaptive measurement. Performance Series is the universal screener in D108 for grades 3-8 in math and reading. Enter the Performance Series site here.

Performance Series Testing Protocol is here.

Read this Performance Series script aloud to students prior to the start of the test in fall, winter and spring.

Foundations Reading and Math - Scantron's Foundations Reading and Math are online standards-based, computer-adaptive measurements. Foundations is the universal screener in D108 for grades K-2 in reading and math. Enter the Foundations site here.

Show this tutorial video to K-2 students before they take the reading assessment. Show the video prior to testing in fall, winter and spring.

Show this tutorial video to K-2 students before they take the math assessment. Show the video prior to testing in fall, winter and spring.

BAS - The Fountas & Pinnell Benchmark Assessment System (BAS) links assessment to instruction along The Continuum of Literacy Learning. This assessment is given one-on-one to students in grades 1-3 in fall, winter (optional), and spring.

STAR Reading Enterprise (from Renaissance Place) - The STAR Reading Enterprise assessments include new skills-based test items, and new in-depth reports for screening, instructional planning, progress monitoring and standards benchmarking. STAR is administered as the D108 progress monitoring tool for comprehension and in some classrooms as a benchmark or benchmark and progress-monitoring tool. Enter the STAR Reading Enterprise site here.

The testing protocol and administering directions for STAR can be found on the Renaissance Place site.  Login and under the STAR Reading tab, click Resources, then Pretest-Instructions Enterprise Test. The student-friendly test directions can be displayed on the SMART Board. Directions should be read to the students before the test begins in fall, winter, and spring.  Students being progress monitored with STAR do not need the directions read every two weeks; read only as necessary between benchmark periods.

Assessment Reports

Click HERE for directions to print parent-friendly reports from Foundations, Performance Series and STAR.