This year's report includes data and summaries of programs that chart the success of Silver Strand Elementary School's efforts to provide quality education for life for all students. Student Achievement Silver Strand Elementary School continues to strive toward academic excellence for all students. This assessment permits a comparison of achievement to students nationally who have taken these same tests. In addition to the norm referenced test, portfolios, individual reading inventories, as well as other forms of authentic assessment are utilized to measure student progress. Running Records and the Bader Reading Inventory are especially useful to monitor developing readers at the K-1 levels.
Parents receive copies of the individual student results of the norm referenced test.
Results of other assessment data, including observations, are reported to parents during conferences and on progress reports. The following chart indicates student national percentiles in the areas of reading, language and math for the past three years. A District developed Writing Assessment has been given to students in grades 2 and 5 for three years. The goal of this assessment is to improve the quality of student writing and thinking across the curriculum. Teachers were asked to review individual results with each student and discuss ways to improve the writing.