Local Benchmark Assessments
Ramona Unified School District has several local benchmark assessments in place
NWEA MAP Tests - Students in Elementary School take the Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) Test two to three times a year. The test is nationally normed to provide educators, students, and families with an idea of a student’s progression of learning.
Here are some resources to help you understand the assessment and your student’s progress toward meeting the grade level expectations for learning:
- Student Progress Reports - Helps you to understand your student’s report and scores
- Comparative Data- Resource to Inform Instructional Decisions and show College/Career Readiness
- Normative Data - Shows relatively expected scores and growth by grade level
- Parent Toolkit
Here are some resources to help families understand the MDTP assessment:
DIBELS - DIBELS Next, or Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills is a district-wide diagnostic assessment that is given to our elementary scholars. This diagnostic assessment came out of the research of the University of Oregon, and provides educators with a tool to measure a student’s growth and development of basic and necessary foundational reading skills. DIBELS also provides a way to monitor a student’s progress toward meeting benchmark skill levels in phonics, phonemic awareness, decoding, and letter name/sound connections.
Here is a resource to help educators and families understand the scores.
Writing Benchmarks - The California Content Standards calls out for three main types of writing for students to learn: Narrative, Informational/Expository, and Opinion/Argumentative. Our district requires all scholars to demonstrate their writing skills using district writing benchmarks. Because we adopted a new English Language Arts program this school year, we are trying all of the new writing assessments and will define new benchmark writing expectations for the 2019-2020 school year.
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