August 2010 - The Plainview-Old Bethpage School District

Minutes of School Board Meeting – August 9, 2010 -6-Mrs. Pierno spoke of the SOS program and how successful this program isState Assessment ResultsMs. Gierasch stated that the English language arts assessment was moved fromJanuary to April and the mathematics assessment was moved from March to May. Wereceived the results July 28 th . The cut scores for Level 2 and Level 3 proficiency wereraised.Ms. Gierasch reviewed what is being planned for the 2011-2012 school year. Thelength of Math and ELA test will be increased. There will be more new test performanceindicators. Test items will be more difficult to predict. She reviewed the newperformance level labels. She spoke of proficiency standards. Proficiency scores areset so that if a student makes a year’s worth of developmental growth, they will be ontrack for a college-ready Regents score.Ms. Gierasch compared our ELA and Math scores with those of the State and NassauCounty. She reviewed assessment ranking information.Discussion:Mrs. Lieberman asked if we could get grades 6-8 ELA material to see where our kidsare weak.Ms. Gierasch stated we will be able to do this but not right now. We will be able tobreakdown all the data by school, class and teacher.Mr. Dempsey stated that our task is to diagnose and analyze why we did better incertain grade levels. We have to look at where we did well so we can sustain this. Thevariation is not very great in the math scores. There is more variation in the ELA. Wehave to determine what we have to look at.Mrs. Schulman expressed her concern about the students that were on the “bubble” lastyear. They could score 1-2. She asked if we have the date yet.Ms. Gierasch agrees that we need to look at where the children did poorly.