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Crystal Sylvia, a social worker at Bruce-Monroe Elementary School at Park View and the parent of two DCPS children, writes:
While many people spent the Friday before Memorial Day weekend thinking about the cookouts and barbecues that they would attend, teachers at my school were working feverishly to finish administering two reading assessments to all our students: DIBELS (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills) and TRC (Text and Reading Comprehension). Teachers must use these tests to monitor student progress every two weeks. That's in addition to benchmark tests three times a year.
We're ending a school year in which our students have been inundated with standardized tests like never before.
Here is a brief overview. In addition to the three DIBELS and TRC benchmarks -- which are very time-intensive for teachers because students have to be evaluated individually -- there have been four DC BAS sessions, basically test preps for the DC CAS. Each lasts two days.
We're ending a school year in which our students have been inundated with standardized tests like never before.
Here is a brief overview. In addition to the three DIBELS and TRC benchmarks -- which are very time-intensive for teachers because students have to be evaluated individually -- there have been four DC BAS sessions, basically test preps for the DC CAS. Each lasts two days.
Everyone knows that the DC CAS takes up two weeks at the end of April. This year it was followed immediately by two weeks of ACCESS(Accessing Comprehension and Communication in English for English