SOL Remediation
Types of Assessment
Formal vs. Informal
 Written vs. Performance Tasks vs.
Projects vs. Portfolios
 Summative vs. Diagnostic vs. Formative
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Summative Assessments
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Designed to measure knowledge, skills, and abilities
after instruction has taken place.
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Typically Summative Assessments has “Pass” and
“Fail” associated with them which distinguishes them
from Formative and Diagnostic which don’t.
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Examples:
 SOL
 SAT/ACT
 Final Exams or tests
Diagnostic Assessment
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Understand the current knowledge, skill, and/or ability so
that we can diagnose the gap and thereby provide a
prescription for learning if required.
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Identify students’ current knowledge of a subject, their skill
sets and capabilities, and to clarify misconceptions before
teaching takes place.
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Knowing students’ strengths and weaknesses can help
you better plan what to teach and how to teach it.
Examples:
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NWEA
ARDT
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Teacher Evaluation Skills/Tasks
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Formative Assessment
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Provide feedback and information during the
instructional process, while learning is taking
place, and while learning is occurring.
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Used to strengthen memory recall by practice and
to correct misconceptions and to promote
confidence in ones knowledge.
Examples:
Warm-ups & Exit tickets
 ActivEngage
 Informal assessments – survey, thumbs up/thumbs down
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SPBQ Report
Student Performance By Question (SPBQ)
 SOL report generated from VDOE
 Breaks down SOL into question stems
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Determine what is important!
Identify district and school strengths and
weaknesses
 Ideal time – summer planning, beginning
of the year
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How can I use this now?
 Examine topics of emphasis
 Examine question stems – TEI? Rigor?
Team approach
Work smarter – not harder!
 Examine your pacing for remainder of
the year
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Algebra Readiness Diagnostic Test
(ARDT)
Math 6 – Algebra 1
 Limited licenses/units
 Computer adaptive
 Old SOL items and new TEI items
 Strand reports
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SOL Simulation
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2013 SOL Simulation administration
 Split into reporting categories.
 Give in parts or as a whole – school-based
decision!
 Different scenarios:
○ Focus on “endurance”
○ Focus on “instructional time”
 Remediate immediately based upon student
performance.
Jefferson Lab Quizzes
Old SOL questions have been realigned
to 2009 SOL.
 2012 Simulation has been uploaded
(Geometry available after spring break)
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 http://education.jlab.org/solquiz/
 Select
 Fixed versus Random
Recording Student Progress
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2012 SOL Simulation is fair game to
use!
 SOL booklet
 Warm-up Questions
SOL Tracker
 Chesterfield Quizzes
 York County Reviews
 Houghton Mifflin documents
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Warm-up & Exit Tickets
Spiraled review of SOL content
 Gather data through
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 Socrative - http://www.socrative.com/
 IXL Math - http://www.ixl.com/
 ActivEngage
 Whiteboards
 Survey/Polling – http://www.pollev.com
Develop Remediation Programs
Cruisin’ Through Math - VCTM
 Math Sharing folder – SOL review
 Sharing session – different remediation
plans?
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