WHAT IS SCIENCE : This by week, my students took the 2014 Released Science STAAR Test every bit a tool for us to mensurate their progress together with aid assess what concepts take away to endure reviewed earlier the actual STAAR direction inward April. For to a greater extent than information on the examination see the TEA website.
Last year, I spent fourth dimension going over the released examination together with I had a cast for students to arrive at total out showing them what TEKS together with concepts they were potent inward together with which ones were weakness. Ari from The Science Penguin had a swell thought for the fifth flat examination that I borrowed together with adapted for the eighth flat test. On i side it lists the query release along alongside the TEKS together with a student-friendly explanation well-nigh that TEKS. On the other side, students graph their raw score together with thus they tin compass the sack learn a visual of where they are at this signal (have they met the minimum standard, are they only above/below it, or are they good inside the Advanced Academic Performance zone?) Then students conduct maintain a peril to write downwards five strengths together with five weakness together with reverberate on the test.
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I can't tell plenty well-nigh how of import I mean value it is for yous to railroad train your students well-nigh the STAAR Test itself. They should empathize the iv Reporting Categories, the Readiness together with Supporting standards, together with the TEKS. They should know how the examination is seat out, how many questions from each reporting category to expect, etc...
At the start of March I volition transportation dwelling a Parent Letter alongside each student, informing the students together with parents well-nigh the invention for upcoming review. My total review typically takes 3-4 weeks prior to the test. During this time, my students consummate the next iv review packets:
I role information that I've collected all twelvemonth from the district benchmark assessments using Eduphoria. I am nevertheless using the tracking method that I posted well-nigh inward this weblog post. Students conduct maintain been eager to earn their stickers this twelvemonth together with it's transcend away quite a competition. They know which TEKS they've mastered together with which TEKS take away a picayune to a greater extent than attending together with difficult work.
After completing the packets, together with going over the released examination inward detail, students are seat upwards to seat about their individualized review catered to their specific needs. I conduct maintain gathered together with created a multifariousness of activities for my students to consummate based on each of the TEKS. Students volition entirely operate on their weaknesses. This has proven to endure most effective because they are no longer wasting their fourth dimension reviewing fabric that they conduct maintain mastered. Reviewing for a examination similar this can't endure "one size fits all."
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