Monday, April 22, 2013
Students at Moraine Elementary School keep track of data on students' academic performance.
While many upper elementary students learn about means and medians, few put them into practical use. Moraine Elementary School has a group of Student Data Leaders who collect data on students' performance at the end of every school quarter. Shrey Udupa, Marissa Coley, Maggie Chen and Anna McGowan work with Principal Denise Bryan to crunch the numbers. Udupa, Coley and Chen helped Bryan present the data at a board of education meeting earlier in April in the form of graphs and charts. "My job is to help Dr. Bryan display the data," Udupa said. Every Moraine student has a leadership notebook to keep track of their "Wildy Important Goals," or WIGs. Students use goal setting worksheets to create their personal goals, Bryan said. One school …
Monday, February 11, 2013
Northville continues to score well above state averages.
The annual MEAP results, released Monday morning, show gains in many academic areas for Northville Public Schools this past year. The results also 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. “The performance of our students on the MEAP and other assessments is a direct result of the strong partnership between our students, teachers and parents that focuses on success for all students,” said Northville Superintendent Mary Kay Gallagher, in a statement. “As we do each year, administrators and educators…
Check back with Northville Patch at Monday afternoon 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 Northville and in all public schools across the state. The results were scheduled to be released at 10 a.m. Check back with Northville Patch this afternoon for Northville's results. 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. The MEAP as a standard of measuring student achievement is on its way out; beginning in the 2014-15 school year, students will be given an online exam to test their knowledge of core subjects. Read More:
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 …
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Students generally showed the most improvement in math and reading scores.
Northville Public Schools has, as in past years, performed well above the state average on the Michigan Education Assessment Program (MEAP) test, according to MEAP data released Wednesday morning. The district made more gains in specific subject areas than it took losses when comparing the 2011 and 2010 numbers. Some of the biggest gains were in elementary school mathematics and reading. "We feel good overall as a district on our MEAP results," said Robert Behnke, assistant superintendent for instructional services. "While we are not 100 percent proficient in all areas, as a district we continue to be a leading school district within the state for high performing students." Cut scores were a factor in the results this year. The cut scores…
Aysha Jamali
4:23 pm on Monday, April 22, 2013
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