Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Gains in reading can be attributed to Readers' and Writers' Workshop, school officials say.
Mixed results on Farmington Public Schools MEAP (Michigan Educational Assessment Program) standardized tests reflect shifts in resources and a move to a new set of standards, Kris Gekiere, director of assessment and school improvement, said Monday. Officials noticed "slight improvement or stability" in 3rd-5th grade reading and math results, improvement in 7th grade writing and a "decline or stability" in 6th-8th grade math and reading, science and social studies, she said. "I think what that tells us is we're undergoing a shift in our resources, as well as Common Core," said Gekiere, referring to new standards adopted by the Michigan Dept. of Education in 2010. "We're trying to adjust for something that's coming down the road, rather …
Monday, February 11, 2013
School district scores well above state averages. However, most scores are down from 2011 test.
The annual MEAP results, released Monday morning, showed academic declines in most areas for West Bloomfield students in the last year. Still, the results show students maintaining a higher level of proficiency in every grade level and every subject than peers statewide. The 2012 Michigan Educational Assessment Program measures progress in subjects such as math, reading, writing, science and social studies for third through ninth-graders. In West Bloomfield, students' results took their biggest hits in science, where fifth-graders dropped from 23.9 percent proficient in 2011 to 13.5 percent proficient in 2012. In eighth grade, results fell from 27.4 percent proficient in 2011 to 19.9 percent proficient in 2012. In math, scores were down …
Check back with West Bloomfield Patch at 10 a.m. Monday for a look at how students fared on their Fall 2012 Michigan Education Assessment Program exams.
Michigan students' MEAP results will be released Monday morning for students in Troy and in all public schools across the state. The results were scheduled to be released at 10 a.m. The Michigan Education Assessment Program exam assesses students in grades 3 through 9: The annual test is designed to show students' proficiency in career- and college-ready materials. The MEAP is administered by the Department of Education, which is releasing the data on Monday. New cut scores — the passing scores that distinguish between whether a student is advanced, proficient, partially proficient or not proficient in certain subjects — were adopted by the State Board of Education in Sept. 2010. With the more rigorous cut scores, students need to get …
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Changes will take place during the 2014-2015 school year.
Paper and pencil for statewide tests will soon be a thing of the past for Michigan students as they prepare to take a new online assessment detailed during a roundtable Monday by the Michigan Department of Education. The exam will replace the standardized MEAP and MME assessments in math, reading and writing, beginning during the 2014-2015 school year. The MEAP and MME assessments will still be given in science and social studies. But unlike the tests students are used to, the new statewide exam will not have a common set of questions. Subsequent questions will be determined based on how a student answers the previous one. A correct answer yields a harder one. An incorrect responce yields an easier question. The goal is to have students …
The new online assessment will replace the MEAP and MME tests in math, reading and writing beginning during the 2014-15 school year.
Beginning in the 2014-15 school year, students throughout Michigan will be given an online exam to test their knowledge of core subjects. The test replaces the Michigan Merit Exam (MME) and the Michigan Educational Assessment Progam (MEAP) in all subjects except social science and science. Called Smarter Balanced, the exam was produced by The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, a state-led effort to provide consistent and comparable standards, aligned to the Common Core State Standards, in English language arts, literacy and mathematics. Smarter Balanced recently released a Technology Readiness Tool for districts to measure readiness to move to an online assessment program. Martineau said only about 6 percent of districts have taken …
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Local school district officials praised improved scores in math and reading and suggested that science and social studies scores would soon improve.
Parents, students and the community may be startled by locally and statewide, but West Bloomfield School District officials are pleased. Officials were told last year that the – the passing scores that distinguish between whether a student is advanced, proficient, partially proficient or not proficient in certain subjects. In West Bloomfield, the percentage of students who tested at or above proficient dropped dramatically from results in 2010 due to the new cut scores, particularly in social studies and science. The weakest point in West Bloomfield's 2011 scores was in fifth-grade science, where only 23.9 percent of students scored at or above proficient. That's a 7.8 percent drop from 2010, with new cut scores factored in. At a meeting…
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While overall district proficiency results declined, some schools made gains.
As officials look at measured by state MEAP (Michigan Educational Assessment Program) tests, some bright spots emerge. Officials have explained that higher cut scores – the passing scores that distinguish between whether a student is advanced, proficient, partially proficient or not proficient in certain subjects – have moved students judged proficient last year to partially proficient this year. But in every elementary, upper elementary and middle school, at least one class made progress. The greatest subject area of improvement was reading. Student proficiency improved in reading at Warner Upper Elementary (5th grade); East (7th-8th grades) and Dunckel (7th grade) middle schools; and Beechview (3rd-4th grades), Gill (3rd grade), …
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Farmington High School
32000 Shiawassee Rd, Farmington, MI
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Officials say plummeting scores may affect more than individual students as federal benchmarks loom this spring.
Parents, students and the community may be startled by plummeting MEAP (Michigan Education Assessment Program) results, but Farmington Public Schools officials have seen this train coming. Officials were told last year that the Michigan Dept. of Education (DOE) would raise "cut" scores – the passing scores that distinguish between whether a student is advanced, proficient, partially proficient or not proficient in certain subjects. As a result, students who were judge "proficient" in 2011 are now "partially proficient", and more students are ranking "not proficient". "I think the main goal of the state doing this right now," said Kristin Gekiere, the district's director of assessment and school improvement, "is they want the students to…
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32500 Shiawassee Rd, Farmington, MI
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Scores were generally well above the state average; here's breakdown of how each school in the district did.
Here are the results of the West Bloomfield School District Fall 2011 MEAP test scores (in percentage of students). In West Bloomfield, the percentage of students who tested at or above proficient dropped dramatically from results in 2010 due to the new cut scores, particularly in social studies, science and math. The biggest drop was in eighth-grade science scores. Under the former cut scores, 89.5 percent of students were at or above proficient in 2010; under the new scores, only 21 percent were at or above proficient. With the new cut scores factored in, West Bloomfield fared well between 2010 and 2011. Sixth-grade scores went up in every subject, including an 8.3 percent increase in math. Alphabetical listing of elementary, middle and …
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Ealy Elementary School
5475 W Maple Rd, West Bloomfield, MI
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Doherty Elementary School
3575 Walnut Lake Rd, West Bloomfield, MI
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Scotch Elementary School
5959 Commerce Rd, West Bloomfield, MI
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2065 Cass Lake Rd, Keego Harbor, MI
Roosevelt Elementary School
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Orchard Lake Middle School
6000 Orchard Lake Rd, West Bloomfield, MI
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Abbott Middle School
3380 Orchard Lake Rd, Orchard Lake, MI
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West Bloomfield High School
4925 Orchard Lake Rd, West Bloomfield, MI
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Sheiko Elementary School
4500 Walnut Lake Rd, West Bloomfield, MI
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West Bloomfield scores were lower in 2011 due to changing cut scores — with a few dramatic drops — however, local students continue to exceed statewide averages.
West Bloomfield School District students continue to exceed statewide MEAP averages, according to the fall 2011 test results released Wednesday. Students statewide saw positive gains on the MEAP (Michigan Educational Assessment Program) compared with the previous year, a report from the Michigan Department of Education stated Wednesday. This despite there being a dip in scores across the board due to a change in scoring. During the MEAP exam, taken during fall 2011, students in Grades 3-9 were tested in math, reading, writing, social studies and/or science, depending on the grade level. Across Michigan, scores of students proficient in reading increased by an average of 3 percentage points; the increase in math proficiency increased by an …
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Lori S.
1:16 pm on Tuesday, February 12, 2013
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