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Dear parents/guardians,

Assessing progress in meeting school wide goals in the areas of math, reading, and writing assists us in determining the degree to which we are meeting our school mission.  Students are given a pre-assessment at the beginning of the school year to establish baseline data.  Short cycle progress assessments are given in December and March, and a post assessment is given in May.  All assessments are administered in a standardized manner, and the results are gathered and analyzed to determine areas needing improvement on each level (student, class, school). Action plans are created based upon assessment results, and specific interventions are identified to address individual as well as class needs.

Math Goal

All students will demonstrate mastery at or above grade level in math by the end of the year as measured by 85% or above on credential based assessments.

The math assessment is based upon math credentials, which are essential learnings that students must master by year end to be successful at the next grade level.  Math credentials were written by the math goal team and are aligned with Archdiocesan, State, and National standards.  Since the goal is to have students demonstrate mastery by scoring 85% by year end, it should be expected that the baseline assessment results will be low.  Growth should be evident between short cycle assessments, and by the post assessment your child should show at least 85% mastery.

Reading Goal

All students will demonstrate proficiency in Reading by the end of each school year as measured by Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) and 85% or above on the SCANTRON SIP score.

Two performance measures are used to assess student achievement in reading.  Kindergarten through 2^nd Grade use Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS), which are a set of standardized, individually administered measures of early literacy development.  The measures assess student development of phonological awareness, alphabetic understanding, and automaticity and fluency with the code. Students scoring in the intensive range are considered to be at high risk for reading failure, students scoring in the strategic range are considered to be at some risk for reading failure, and students scoring in the benchmark range are considered to be proficient and performing on or above grade level for reading.

Grades 3 through 6 use Scantron's Performance Series.    The Standard Item Pool (SIP) score represents the percentage of items that students answer correctly based on an estimate of how the student would perform if exposed to all the Performance Series items aligned to standards at his/her grade level.  Students scoring 85% or above on the SIP score, as indicated on the student profile report, are considered proficient in reading.  The scaled score is a statistical measure associated with the difficulty of each question, and measures growth between assessments or from year to year. The tables below show scaled scores for Fall and Spring ranges. 

Fall                                                                                           Spring

If your child's gain is less than the Standard Error of Measurement (SEM), this indicates that there is no significant change in your child's score. 

Writing Goal

Upon completing 6^th grade at SNRCS 85% of students will be “Effective” writers as measured by the 6+1 Writing Traits.

Santo Nino uses rubrics based on the 6+1 Writing Traits for assessing student writing.  The traits include: Ideas, Organization, Voice, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency and Conventions.  Scores can range from 1 to 5.  A score of 1) Not evident -  a bare beginning; writer not showing any control.  2)  Emerging - need for revision outweighs strengths; isolated moments hint at what the writer has in mind.  3)  Developing - strengths and need for revision are about equal; about half way home.  4)  Competent - on balance, the strengths outweigh the weaknesses; a small amount of revision is needed.  5)  Strong - shows control and skill in writing; many strengths present.

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