Modesto Afternoon Focus Group

Assessment and Accountability

Focus Meeting
January 20, 2005

We are going to look over and make comments about the Action Plan. This document is the listed activities to resolve the deficiencies in our school as we first identified them. This includes the activities, staffing, resources, budget, etc.
Continue to offer and train parents on Edusoft- that is straightforward. Any suggestions?

The people who will affect the development of benchmark exams are ….

• Timeline: K, 1st, fall of 2006 school year.
• Timeline: Task number 2 - science should be spelled right.

What about V&PA ? 06-07

• We have no benchmarks in those areas.

Did we do benchmark exams in history?

Do we have any in history?

I think the way this is supposed to read is that K and 1 don’t test in them but we definitely need 12th grade to take the test. (task 2 timeline, 12th grade include social science in 05-06 fall)

Task number 3, increase parent and student awareness of acquisition of the standard – how about achievement. Could we say achieving proficiency in the standards? Or standards proficiency or the something else?

3a. what about the importance and value of Mastery of task description. Maybe we should say mastery of the standards.

4. Provide test sign ups for ES’s in December. Sign ups not hyphenated. Sign-ups seems to work fine too.

5. Provide more accommodating test sites. How about providing additional test sites.

6. We need to drop the s off of test, cost of test site
Shouldn’t we put unknown or leave a question mark or TBA. Just put unknown costs. OR As of this time undetermined.
Parent will sign letter of confirmation and
The parent will confirm in writing student participation and testing.

7 personal call to families who decline to test.

• Once testing begins ?
  ES’s call those who do not attend but signed up to attend
  Or ES’s call those who do not attend.
• Once testing begins ES’s call those who do not attend, scratch but . . .
• Do everything we can to get them to the make ups.

Review overall success of testing once completed.
Means to success: - note the total percentage of star participants
Review overall success. We are going to count them. Count total and divide by total.