As 2nd semester gets going, WMS would like to welcome our students back for another great semester. We look forward to working with the kids and families to help our students find educational and social growth, as well as, have a lot of fun along the way.
Some items coming this semester in relation to student growth assessment.
NWEA Assessment - Winter Test - January 25th - February 5th
ISTEP Assessment - Applied Skills - March 1st - March 10th
ISTEP Assessment - Multiple Choice - April 18th - May 6th
NWEA Assessment - Spring Test - May 4th - May 16th
Each time a student takes an NWEA assessment, reports will be sent home with the next midterm or grade card. These are excellent reports that will allow you to "visualize" your student's growth and see the areas of strength and weakness.
ISTEP+ reports are a bit more tricky to predict. To date, we still do not have school level reports indicating how your student did in relation to standards from the test given last Spring (14-15). We have overall scores but no standard or skill specific data to share or use to further your students development in terms of ISTEP. (We are using NWEA to fill the data void left by the state's difficulties in getting us specifics on student areas of strength and weakness until those scores are made available to us.) There is no specific release date for these final reports at this point from the 14-15 testing cycle.
The Indiana Department of Education has indicated the upcoming test (beginning this March of 2016) results should be available to parents and schools by early summer.
As always if you have any questions in regard to your student in relation to any school related activity or matter, please contact us. We will be happy to help in any way possible.
Here is to a great 2nd semester, WMS is proud of our students and staff.
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