Data Driving Instruction

ITBS, SRI, NCRE, St. Pius

 

St. Charles Borromeo Catholic School gives several standardized assessments each year to gather data to better inform instruction for each individual student.

 

The Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS) are a set of standardized tests given annually to school students in the United States.These tests are given to students at St. Charles beginning in 3rd grade and progressing until Grade 8 to assess educational development. The ITBS was designed by the University of Iowa's College of Education, as part of a program to develop a series of nationally accepted standardized achievement tests. The ITBS covers numerous areas of educational knowledge, including English language use, math concepts and problem solving, social studies, science, geography and map use, and source use. The ITBS is used in the majority of schools in the State of Iowa, both in the public and private education sectors. The tests have been widely used in other regions of the United States. Click on the data below to see where St. Charles compares to the Archidiocese and see how each class has progresssed from year to year.

 

Class of 2010 Yearly Progress

Class of 2011 Yearly Progress

Class of 2012 Yearly Progress

Class of 2013 Yearly Progress

Class of 2014 Yearly Progress

Class of 2015 Yearly Progress Coming in May

Archive

 

Scholastic Reading Inventory (SRI) is designed specifically to help us answer the question: Are our students making progress in reading? SRI provides information for teachers to work more efficiently by fostering improved planning for instruction as well as the ability to better match students to the appropriately leveled text, encouraging growth and success.

 

SRI…

  • Provides ongoing assessment.
  • Encourages accountability.
  • Is based on the Lexile Framework for Reading.
  • Is computer-adaptive.
  • Generates actionable reports.
  • Matches readers to text (Scholastic Reading Inventory, Educator’s Guide).

 

Click on the proficiency reports below to see the progress from students beginning in 2006.  The Proficiency Summary report shows how many students took the assessment and where they fall on the scale of proficiency.  The District Proficiency Report breaks it down by grade level. The Profile Click on the growth reports to see the average level of growth per grade for the one year. (St. Charles adopted SRI in fall of 2006). The proficiency growth report shows the growth of students are the proficiency scale.  The Growth Summary report shows the average growth in Lexile per grade level.  Keep in mind the average growth per year should be between 75 and 100.

 

Proficiency Summary Report                                   Proficiency Growth Report

 

District School Proficiency Report                          Growth Summary Report