Rochester City School District Mathematics Performance Pre-assessment September 2013

Rochester City School DistrictKindergarten Mathematics Performance AssessmentsSeptember 2013

Purpose for Assessments

To meet the goals of Common Core State Standards, it is imperative that teachers have evidence of the progress students are making towards required fluencies and understandings. Performance assessments allow the teacher to measure student acquisition of Common Core content with respect to specific standards of performance. Teachers will be able to record this information on task rubrics and have a baseline to begin measuring student progress.

Using Link It

This school year, LinkIt! is the system we are using for Performance-based assessments

LinkIt is an electronic scoring program, which provides an interface for teachers to score Performance-based assessments

Tutorials have been prepared that will walk teachers through the process of the login and scoring process. There will be opportunities to sign-up for LinkIt! training in AVATAR.

Logging into LinkIt

Step 1: Go to https://rcsd.linkit.com/

Step 2: Enter your username and password.

Your username is your 7-digit teacher number. Your temporary password is also your 7-digit teacher number. Upon first log-in, you will be asked to change your temporary password. If you ever forget your password, you could use the lost password function on the log-in page, which will email you a temporary password.

Timeline for Assessment

Pre-assessment: Given September 2013

Pre-assessment given to all students individually by classroom teacher.

Post-assessment: Given May 2014- June 2014

Post-assessment given to all students individually by cooperating teacher within grade level.

How to read the RCSD K-2 Assessment

Each RCSD K-2 Mathematics Assessment is organized in a table with six main sections:

Domain

Performance Task Identification Number

Cluster

Common Core Standard(s)

Materials

Task Description

How to read the RCSD K-2 Assessment

Domain

Performance Task #

Cluster

CC Standard

Materials

Task

Templates and Student Recording Sheets

Templates

On card stock

One for the entire class used inside a sheet protector and dry erase marker

Needed on tasks 2, 7, 8, 9 and 10

Provided in kit for teachers (Please note: There are some items that need to be cut ahead of time)

Student Recording Sheets

There are no individual student recording sheets for this assessment

Rochester City School District Mathematics Performance Assessment Rubrics

Each task has a rubric to measure student performance. While the task may have multiple parts, accumulated points will generate a total score for task between 1 and 4. This score will entered onto a scanning sheet.

Rochester City School District Mathematics Performance Assessment Rubrics

Rochester City School District Kindergarten Mathematics Performance Pre-assessmentSeptember 2013Task 3 Rubric Possible Points 4 NEEDS IMPROVEMENT (N) WITH ASSISTANCE (W) INDEPENDENT (I)1 Student is Well Below Proficiency2 Student is Partially Proficient 3 Student is Proficient4 Student Excelled in This TaskStudent is unable to accurately identify any of the comparisons (equal to, greater than, less than) Student accurately identifies one comparison (equal to, greater than, less than)Student accurately identifies two comparisons (equal to, greater than, less than) Student accurately identifies all three comparisons (equal to, greater than, less than)

Out of a total of 4 points:

1 Level 12 Level 2 3 Level 3 4 Level 4

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Directions

11

Kindergarten AssessmentIndividual administration for each of the 12 tasksTeachers have the flexibility to test students individually over the span of the testing window. It is not necessary to administer the entire test in one day.

Task 1: Count by 1s and 10s

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Kindergarten Assessment

Task 2: Count objects in a line and scattered arrangements

Kindergarten Assessment

Task 3: Compare numbers using greater than, less than or equal to

Kindergarten Assessment

Task 4: Compare two numbers between 1 and 10

Kindergarten Assessment

Task 5: Solve word problems by using objects, pictures or words to add to (put together) or take from (take apart) within 10

Kindergarten Assessment

Task 6 : Solve problems by adding to (put together) or taking from (take apart) within 5, fluently

Kindergarten Assessment

Task 7: Compose and decompose numbers between 11-19 using counters and ten frame

Kindergarten Assessment

Task 8: Identify and describe shapes (squares, circles, triangles, rectangles, hexagons, cubes, cones, cylinders, and spheres)

Kindergarten Assessment

Task 9: Identify, analyze, compare and compose shapes as two and three- dimensional shapes (lying in a plane, flat) or three-dimensional (solid).

Kindergarten Assessment

Task 10: Compose simple shapes to form larger shapes

Kindergarten Assessment

Task 11: Describe and directly compare objects by describing measurable attributes of a single objects (length, weight) and by comparing two objects to see what they have in common (more of/ less of) and their difference(s)

Kindergarten Assessment

Task 12: Classify objects into given categories by counting and sorting

Logging into LinkIt

Step 1: Go to https://rcsd.linkit.com/

Step 2: Enter your username and password.

Your username is your 7-digit teacher number. Your temporary password is also your 7-digit teacher number. Upon first log-in, you will be asked to change your temporary password. If you ever forget your password, you could use the lost password function on the log-in page, which will email you a temporary password.