YPP Information Steet - Granite School District
YPP Information Steet - Granite School District
YPP Information Steet - Granite School District
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Formative Assessment is “Assessment which provides learning experiences for students<br />
as well as feedback for teachers. Assessment which measures student learning in order to<br />
identify how well they are learning or how much of the subject matter they have mastered<br />
in order to help them learn more or to help the teacher to improve ongoing instruction.”<br />
(Baird, 1997). It can best be described as assessment for learning.<br />
<strong>Granite</strong> <strong>District</strong> has selected Yearly Progress Pro to provide on-going formative<br />
assessment to teachers. Please be aware of the following guidelines.<br />
WHO:<br />
• <strong>YPP</strong> is required for all students in first grade through Pre-Algebra for math, in<br />
first through sixth grade for reading and in second through sixth grade for<br />
language arts.<br />
• All students are to take grade-level assessments. See Administration Guidelines<br />
for accommodations and modifications.<br />
WHAT:<br />
• <strong>YPP</strong> is an on-line assessment tool using Curriculum Based Assessment<br />
methodology. This type of formative assessment measures student progress over<br />
the course of the year toward the year-end grade level goal.<br />
• <strong>YPP</strong> provides critical information to teachers on student progress, generates<br />
data reports and provides prescriptive exercises designed to improve student<br />
learning and close achievement gaps.<br />
• <strong>YPP</strong> provides built in weekly review which significantly builds in student<br />
retention of concepts learned.<br />
• <strong>YPP</strong> also provides teachers the opportunity to develop Custom Test, using the<br />
technology to streamline their work by providing valid and reliable test items and<br />
efficient scoring for teacher made assessments.<br />
• <strong>YPP</strong> is aligned to the Utah State Core<br />
• <strong>Granite</strong> <strong>School</strong> <strong>District</strong>’s math benchmark tests will be on the <strong>YPP</strong> program.<br />
WHEN:<br />
• Students in second through eighth grade must begin participating in <strong>YPP</strong> no later<br />
than one month after school begins and continue through out the school year.<br />
First grade must begin the second trimester (they may begin earlier if the teacher<br />
chooses to).
• Taking the assessment in every subject every week is the recommended best<br />
practice, because it provides the most valid data. The <strong>YPP</strong> Reading Assessment<br />
(2 ½ minutes) must be taken weekly.<br />
• Students may work on <strong>YPP</strong> on classroom computers, mini-labs, and mobile labs<br />
or in a computer lab setting. In schools that only have one computer lab, and<br />
which do not participate in E-mints, 2 nd through 6 th grades may take math and<br />
reading one week and language arts and reading the next. This is a school based<br />
decision, which should be implemented consistently in the building.<br />
WHERE:<br />
• Students complete <strong>YPP</strong> at school; however teachers may access <strong>YPP</strong> reports at<br />
home using this address: https://athome.yearlyprogresspro.com. This address is<br />
for teacher use only and may not be given to students.<br />
WHY:<br />
• <strong>YPP</strong> has been approved by the Education Department’s National Student Progress<br />
Monitoring commission and found to be research-based, valid and reliable and<br />
is recommended as best instructional practice.<br />
• <strong>YPP</strong> is a tool that can strengthen both teacher instruction and student<br />
achievement.<br />
• <strong>YPP</strong> can provide empirical evidence of student learning which can be used to<br />
document response to interventions, measure value-added results (growth over<br />
time) and to show growth for subgroups which may not achieve the benchmarks<br />
set for adequate Yearly Progress as required under No Child Left Behind.<br />
“Firm evidence shows that formative assessment is an essential component of<br />
classroom work and that its development can raise standards of achievement…..”<br />
“All these studies show that innovations that include strengthening the practice of<br />
formative assessment produce significant and often substantial gains.”<br />
Black and William, 1998<br />
“Inside the Black Box: Raising Standards<br />
through Classroom Assessment.”<br />
Phi Delta Kappan, 80 (2), 139 – 148