1. SRI and SMI Training Please log in using the following:
Presented by: Katie Jordan
Professional Development
November 6, 2012
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2. QR Codes, Explore Software in the Lab, Pearson, IXL
Agenda
Understanding SRI and Lexile Scores
Lexile Overview Video
How to use Lexile Scores In Your Classroom
SRI Testing Software for Students
SAM – Scholastic Achievement Manager and Accessing Reports
Lexile Resources
  BREAK
 Understanding SMI and Quantile Scores
The Quantile Framework for Mathematics
Quantile Overview Video
Quantile Teacher Assistant
SMI – Testing Software for Students
Questions and time to access SAM and reports
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QR Codes, Explore Software in the Lab, Pearson, IXL

3. Understanding SRI Testing and Lexile Scores Part I
Scholastic Reading Inventory
SRI
Understanding SRI Testing and Lexile Scores
Part I

4. SCHOLASTIC READING INVENTORY™ (SRI)
What is SRI Testing?
SCHOLASTIC READING INVENTORY™ (SRI)
A research-based, computer-adaptive reading assessment program for students for Grades 2, 3 and 4.
Measures reading comprehension on the Lexile Framework® for Reading.
It’s a fast and reliable low-stakes assessment to inform instruction and make accurate placement recommendations.
Aligned to state tests.
SRI helps educators forecast student achievement to those important goals.

5. What is a Lexile® Measure?
A Lexile measure is a valuable piece of information about either an individual's reading ability or the difficulty of a text, like a book or magazine article. The Lexile measure is shown as a number with an "L" after it — 880L is 880 Lexile.
A student gets his or her Lexile reader measure from a reading test or program. For example, if a student receives an 880L on her end-of-grade reading test, she is an 880 Lexile reader. Higher Lexile measures represent a higher level of reading ability. A Lexile reader measure can range from below 200L for beginning readers to above 1700L for advanced readers. Readers who score at or below 0L receive a BR for Beginning Reader.

6. Lexile Overview Video

7. Using Lexile Measures In Your Classroom
Develop individualized reading lists that are tailored to provide appropriately challenging reading.
Enhance thematic teaching by building a bank of titles at varying Lexile levels that not only support the theme, but provide a way for all students to successfully participate in the theme.
Use as an additional organizing tool when sequencing materials. For example, you might be choosing one book a month for use as a read- aloud throughout the school year. In addition to considering the topic, you could increase the difficulty of the books throughout the year. This approach is also useful if you are utilizing a core program or textbook that is set up in anthology format. (You may find that you need to rearrange the order of the anthologies to best meet your students’ needs.)
Develop a reading folder that goes home with students and comes back for weekly review. The folder can contain a reading list of books within the student’s Lexile range, **reports of recent assessments and a parent form to record reading that occurs at home.
Choose texts lower in the student’s Lexile range when factors make the reading situation more challenging, threatening or unfamiliar. Select texts at or above the student’s range to stimulate growth when a topic is of extreme interest to the student, or when you will be adding additional support such as background teaching or discussion..

8. Using Lexile Measures In Your Classroom
Use the free Lexile Book Database (at and “Find a Book” Web site (at ) to support book selection and create booklists within a student’s Lexile range to help the student make informed choices when selecting texts.
Use the free Lexile calculator (at to gauge expected reading comprehension at Lexile measures for readers and texts.
**Currently we are not sharing reports with parents

9. Testing Grades 2, 3 and 4 Three times a year ( Sept., Jan., June)
Does not require prior knowledge of ideas outside the passage,
Does not test on vocabulary taken out of context, or require formal logic
SRI derives its question bank from authentic passages of literature
Test items are drawn from a variety of content areas

10. SRI Testing Testing Procedures Accessing Testing Program - Links
Usernames and Passwords
SRI Software (student test)
SAM (Scholastic Achievement Manager)
Teacher management software

11. 21 Various SRI Reports

12. Getting into SMI/SRI and SAM
SAM – Scholastic Achievement Manage(Teacher Management and Reports
Click here to get the SAM screen below
Student Access to Testing
(both SRI and SMI)
Click on Launch Sam

13. Username and Password First initial and your last name Password
Is your school
clough / memorial
*lower case no spaces

14. SAMPLE REPORT
This report provides an individual student’s test history
Targets appropriate instructional and independent reading levels
Gives specific teaching recommendations to help each student meet grade level expectations.
Another tool to use in our RTI process!

15. SAM INTERFACE Main Menu
Double Click on a menu option to change the information in the main window
Select School Grade, Teacher and group if listed.

16. After you have made your selection in the main menu….
1. Select Reports
2. All Reports
3. Select SMI Reports
Or Select SRI Reports
Run Report
**Check Dates

17. Let’s go into the program and explore!
Check Dates
Save or print reports
Let’s go into the program and explore!

20. BREAK

21. SCHOLASTIC MATH INVENTORY™ (SMI)
What is SMI Testing?
SCHOLASTIC MATH INVENTORY™ (SMI)
SCHOLASTIC MATH INVENTORY™ (SMI)
A research-based, computer-adaptive math assessment program for students in Grades 2 – 9+ that measures math understanding on The Quantile Framework® for Mathematics.
The most powerful feature of SMI is its ability to administer fast and reliable low-stakes assessment to inform instruction and make accurate placement recommendations.
Aligned to the Common Core State Standards, SMI helps educators forecast student achievement to those important goals.

22. SCHOLASTIC MATH INVENTORY™ (SMI)
What is SMI Testing?
SCHOLASTIC MATH INVENTORY™ (SMI)
SMI was developed in partnership with MetaMetrics, the creators of The Quantile Framework® for Mathematics – a proven measure of math achievement and math concept difficulty.
The Quantile Measure
The Quantile Framework for Mathematics uses the Quantile measure to evaluate both math achievement and the level of math skills and concepts. By placing both student and instruction on the same scale, the Quantile Framework allows educators to evaluate curriculum needs based on each student’s level of performance.

23. The Quantile Framework for Mathematics
The Quantile Framework for Mathematics, developed by MetaMetrics ®, uses a common developmental scale to measure student mathematical achievement, the difficulty of the mathematical concepts, and the materials used for teaching mathematics. Students in grades 2-4 receive a Quantile® measure. The measure will be reported as a number followed by a Q, such as 800Q.
A Quantile measure indicates how well a student understands mathematical concepts and skills at his or her grade level. To interpret what a Quantile measure means for a specific student, two pieces of information are needed: the Quantile score, and the grade level during which the student received the Quantile score. For example, a higher Quantile measure within a specific grade range indicates that a student probably has very few problems with grade-level material (textbooks and assignments) in school. A lower Quantile measure indicates that a student most likely struggles to understand and succeed with grade-level material.
The Quantile Framework can help teachers select materials within a specific student's learning frontier. The learning frontier is from 50 Quantile measures above to 50 quantile measures below a student's score.

24. The Quantile Framework for Mathematics
The Quantile Framework is broken down into QTaxons, specific mathematical topics, concepts or skills. Each QTaxon is a number followed by a Q. The higher the number, the more difficult the solvability. Each QTaxon aligns with one of the five NCTM mathematical strands - Numbers and Operations, Geometry, Measurement, Algebra/Patterns & Functions, and Data Analysis & Probability. Each QTaxon has a Knowledge Cluster which indicates the precursor and supporting QTaxons. The precursor QTaxons describe the skills and concepts that should be mastered before beginning instruction on the main QTaxon. The supporting QTaxons represent skills that are not necessary for the lesson, but could broaden and enrich the lesson.
Quantile measures are not directly connected to grade levels. Within any classroom there will be students with a wide range of Quantile scores. Because teachers can use a student's Quantile score to assess the mathematical needs of that student, they can target instruction, forecast understanding, and improve mathematics instruction.

25. The Quantile Framework for Mathematics
The Quantile Framework is broken down into QTaxons, specific mathematical topics, concepts or skills. Each QTaxon is a number followed by a Q. The higher the number, the more difficult the solvability. Each QTaxon aligns with one of the five NCTM mathematical strands - Numbers and Operations, Geometry, Measurement, Algebra/Patterns & Functions, and Data Analysis & Probability. Each QTaxon has a Knowledge Cluster which indicates the precursor and supporting QTaxons. The precursor QTaxons describe the skills and concepts that should be mastered before beginning instruction on the main QTaxon. The supporting QTaxons represent skills that are not necessary for the lesson, but could broaden and enrich the lesson.
Quantile measures are not directly connected to grade levels. Within any classroom there will be students with a wide range of Quantile scores. Because teachers can use a student's Quantile score to assess the mathematical needs of that student, they can target instruction, forecast understanding, and improve mathematics instruction.

26. Quantile Overview Video

31. SMI Testing Testing Procedures Accessing Testing Program - Links
Usernames and Passwords
SMI Software (student test)
SAM (Scholastic Achievement Manager)
Teacher management software