1. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. GRADE Group Reading and Diagnostic Evaluation Pennsylvania Keystones to Opportunity Test Administration and Scoring Misty Sprague Professional Development and Consultation misty.sprague@pearson.com

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3. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Agenda  VERY brief introduction to the GRADE  How to administer the test  How to handle scoring  Future PD opportunities  Questions for the GRADE team

4. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. What is it: group administered - individual results What are GRADE GRADE (The Group Reading Assessment and Diagnostic Evaluation) is a norm-referenced diagnostic assessments, given BEFORE instruction to DRIVE instruction. They show students’ performance by foundational skill, determine weak skills areas or “gaps” that require remediation and intervention, and strengths that can be used to build interventions or require enrichment.

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6. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Scientifically research and norm referenced Carefully developed to provide a broad sampling of appropriate reading competencies. The GRADE assessment was standardized in 2000 across the nation using:  33,000+ students  Varying ethnicities  Range of socioeconomic groups  Both genders  Special Needs students  Regional/National groups

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8. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. GRADE Snapshot Can be administered – Individually, in small groups, or to an entire class Eleven test levels –Each level has two forms, parallel in content and difficulty Normative scores available for each form –Grade-based, fall and spring –Standard scores, stanines, percentiles, NCEs, and grade equivalents Growth scale values (GSVs) for tracking growth over time

9. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. GRADE Philosophy: The Individual Learner Students are individuals –“One size” does not fit all –Students vary widely in their readiness to learn –The rate of acquisition of skills varies from one student to the next Information on an individual’s strengths and needs is the link to the most effective instructional strategies

10. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. GRADE User-Friendly Procedures for Teachers and Students Untimed administration GRADE is a test of power, not speed

11. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. GRADE User-Friendly Procedures for Teachers and Students Questions not in difficulty order –Since GRADE is not timed, questions are not arranged from easiest to hardest in each subtest

12. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Components Everything you need for accurate assessment. Scientifically researched based and highly reliable, GRADE gives you the components you need to conduct accurate, efficient reading and mathematics assessments.  Booklets are designed to be student friendly, and are re-useable Levels 4-A to be more cost effective  Parallel forms facilitate multiple testing options throughout the school year  Scannable Answer Sheets available for Levels 1-A save time with efficient scoring of tests  Teacher’s Administration Manuals provide detailed scripts for giving tests and helpful hints to keep students on task

13. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Components  Teacher’s Scoring & Interpretive Manuals include detailed diagnostic information to help plan focused lessons based on test results  Technical Manual details the scientific basis of GRADE and GMADE and the standardization/norming process, providing extra background information for reports to districts and state education agencies  Scoring & Reporting software provides added flexibility and efficiency for scoring large numbers of tests and writing clear, in-depth reports

14. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Instructional Design STEP 1: ASSESS  Assess your students to gauge baseline skills and observe their progress each year. Score the tests by hand or by using convenient GRADE & GMADE Scoring & Reporting Software 14

15. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. What does it assess: subtests GRADE  Pre-reading Visual Skills, Concepts  Reading Readiness Phonological Awareness, Early Literacy Skills, Phoneme-Grapheme  Vocabulary Word Reading, Word Meaning, Vocabulary  Comprehension Sentence Comprehension, Passage Comprehension  Oral Language Listening Comprehension

16. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. What does it assess: subtests Phonemic Awareness Students demonstrate their ability to identify sound-letter correspondence.

17. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. What does it assess: subtests Phonics Students demonstrate their ability to identify words that begin and end with the same sound and rhyme.

18. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. What does it assess: subtests Vocabulary Students demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of words and their meanings.

19. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. What does it assess: subtests Com prehension Students demonstrate their ability to comprehend a sentence as a whole or complete thought; their ability to comprehend a passage; and their understanding of vocabulary, grammar, idioms, inferences, and non-literal items in passages or sentences read silently and aloud.

20. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Estimated Administration Times: Subtest:Average Time: Training Items5 minutes Listening Comprehension15 minutes Word Reading10 minutes Sentence Comprehension15 minutes Vocabulary or Word Meaning10 Minutes Passage Comprehension20 minutes

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22. Item Range  Each level of GRADE contains items that cover a range of reading difficulty  GRADE will reliably measure students who are one or two grade levels below  Within each subtest item difficulty is dispersed throughout the test

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24. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Before Administration  Read the manual  Fill out the identifying information on the from of the student booklets (grades Pre-K -3rd ) OR on the Score Sheet for 4th and up  Have pencils and erasers ready and available  Have administration manual and student booklets ready Grade Level:Test BookletScannable Answer Sheet Scoring Pre- K and KYesNoHand 1 st to 3rdYesNoScanning 4 th -12thYes Scanning

25. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. During Testing  Adhere to the Administration procedures  Monitor the room to make sure students are marking their answers in the correct manner  Do not coach  Avoid interruptions  Only give feedback on practice items  Encourage students to complete all answers but don’t encourage them to just mark anything  Do not limit time

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28. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. How does it analyze: software options Hand score (Pre-K and K) All scoring and analysis can be done by hand with the scoring and interpretation manuals Scanning Software ( 1 st - 12 th ) Software is available for scanning (PC only), installed on one computer per CD, enter student responses and the program scores and interprets it Network (Client Server) ( For Larger Districts) Available in hand entry (Mac/PC) or scanning (PC only), installed on the district server, comes with 3 licenses, additional licenses can be purchased, one time purchase

29. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Preparing for Hand Scoring ( Pre-K and K only) The following information must be entered correctly to obtain correct scores  Testing date ( will assure correct norms)  Forms used (A or B)  Grade level of child

30. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Hand Scoring ( Pre-K and K ONLY)  An item should be scored as incorrect if:  The student marked the wrong answer  The student did not mark any answer  The student marked more than one answer Raw Score= the total number of correct answers

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32. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. How to Hand Score

33. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. How to Hand Score

34. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. How to Hand Score

35. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Scan Scoring (1 st grade and up)  Ensure that there are not any large stray marks  Look to see if multiple bubbles are filled in (4 th - 12 th )  Make sure that all identifying information is filled in correctly

36. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Scan Scoring (1 st grade and up) Scanning Demo https://powersource.pearsonschoolsystems.com/ portal/grade-gmade/

37. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Instructional Design STEP 2: ANALYZE  Analyze your students’ results using a variety of diagnostic reports to pinpoint their strengths and weaknesses and to plan targeted instruction. 37

38. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Onsite Professional Development  24 different options available  Held regionally  Train the Trainer Method  Districts will bring their own data and spend the day turning the data into information  Each workshop is limited to 30 participants

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40. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. How does it analyze: reports both individual and group Individual Reports (Individual Score Summary, Individual Diagnostic Analysis, Individual Progress, Parent)  Understand a student’s strengths and weaknesses in the various subtests  Breakdown of skills: number correct, percent correct  Progress from administration to administration, year to year  Easy to understand parent overview, available in Spanish and Portuguese

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42. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Individual Diagnostic Analysis Report

43. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. How does it analyze: reports both individual and group Group Reports (Group Score Summary, Group Diagnostic Analysis by Item, Error, and Type, Group Progress Report)  Overall picture of how the class or school performs on each subtest  Class/ school averages for types of questions answered correctly and incorrectly  Review of individual/class responses to each item per subtest  Class/ school average of common errors per subtest  Capture class progress from administration to administration, year to year

44. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. How does it analyze: group reports

45. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Test Scores & Interpretations  Raw score ~ total number of correct answers  Standard score ~ a grade-based standard with an average score of 100 (based on fall/spring norms)  Percentile Rank~ to compare/rank with a standardized group of same-aged peers  NCE ~ Normal Curved Equivalence - based on percentiles 1-99, with a mean score of 50  Stanines ~ a scoring range of 1-9 with a mean of 5  Total test score ~ scores for the combined 3 subtests  Age / Grade equivalents ~ comparison to equivalent age or grade based norms

46. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Instructional Design STEP 3:INTERVENE  GRADE: Teachers can Intervene with correlated activities and exercises from GRADE Resource Library, Head for Success, and other Pearson programs 46

47. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Intervention: GRL, Building Success, Head for Success Plan focused instruction directly linked to assessment results  GRADE Resource Libraries  Head for Success  Building Success

48. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Intervention: GRL, Building Success, Head for Success Plan focused instruction directly linked to assessment results GRADE Resource Libraries  Teaching activities & worksheets dealing with the same skill areas covered by GRADE/GMADE on a searchable CD, eleven CDs, one for each level, offer activities, worksheets, and booklists for remediation, on level, and enrichment practice.

49. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Intervention: GRL, Building Success, Head for Success Building Success  Available for Levels Pre-K-High School, this workbook series, correlated to GRADE, reinforces and reviews specific reading areas. Built to be used in small groups or individually, this workbook series addresses Word Attack Skills, Sounds, Vocabulary,Reading Comprehension.

50. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Intervention: GRL, Building Success, Head for Success, Head for Success  Workbooks (Levels 1-5 only) build reading skills with correlated activities. Lessons include guided practice for students’ areas of need. This series offers lessons with instruction, practice, and test practice specifically correlated to the subtests of GRADE and can also be used as a stand alone supplemental curriculum.

51. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Instructional Design STEP 4: REASSESS  Educators can then reassess with GRADE & GMADE parallel forms to measure your student's progress.  This complete solution will allow you to understand your students' abilities, teach according to their needs, and evaluate their progress 51

52. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. A complete solution: Assess, Analyze, Intervene, Reassess Assess  To determine baseline skills Analyze  To pinpoint strengths and weaknesses and plan targeted instruction Intervene  With GRADE Resource Libraries, Head for Success and other supplemental materials Reassess  With GRADE parallel forms to measure progress and determine if the intervention was successful

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54. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Who to Contact? Professional Development Misty Sprague Misty.sprague@pearson.com Sales Dave McSorley Dave.McSorley@Pearson.com Ken Rockhill Kenneth.rockhill@pearson.com