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Are
your English Language Learners Making Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)? (page 2)
Tara Maceyak, K-6
Marketing Manager
Placement
and Exit Test Book (norm referenced)
The Placement
and Exit Test Book is designed to place students in the
appropriate levels of the Cornerstone
and Keystone
programs and provide a program exit framework. The subtests for the
placement and exit tests included items in the following areas:
- listening comprehension
- phonemic awareness and phonics
- word recognition and spelling
- vocabulary
- reading comprehension
- sentence structure and writing
Assessment Book (criterion referenced)
The Assessment Book
contains standards-based tests for every selection, including summative
unit tests. There is also a diagnostic pre-test (given during the first
week of school,) a mid-term test, and a post-test (given during the
last week of school) so that teachers can measure student progress
effectively throughout the year. The complete contents of the
assessment book are listed below:
- Diagnostic pretest: These tests are used to get a baseline on students
prior to entering the program and to help teachers determine a course
for instruction through the first unit.
- Midterm test: This test measures progress through the first 3 units
- Posttest: This test measures progress from units 1-6.
- Reading tests: There are three reading tests per unit. In grades 1 and
2 these tests assess reading comprehension, words to know, phonics, and
grammar. In the other levels these tests assess reading comprehension, key words, academic
words, word study, and grammar and writing.
- Unit tests: Unit assessments address progress in the five sub-tests
listed above. Each unit test has a subtest for the following: listening
and reading comprehension, vocabulary, word study, spelling, grammar,
writing, and oral reading fluency.
- Test preparation: These materials support students with general test
taking tasks and include activities on taking a test, answering items
about a passage, answering multiple choice items, answering questions
about the meaning of words, and responding to a writing prompt.
Teacher’s CD-ROM w/ ExamView™ test generator
This electronic Teacher's Edition
provides the entire content of the print Teacher's Edition together
with the electronic files of all the print teaching resources (lesson
plans, answer keys, graphic organizers, etc.). In addition, the
built-in ExamView™ Test Generator provides a powerful and
easy-to-use tool for Standards-based assessment and reporting. The
ExamView™ software allows teachers to build tests using a test
bank, change question format from multiple choice to short answer,
create their own items to add to tests, modify the font and appearance
of tests, insert images in a test, create alternate formats of a test,
and provide teachers with a quick answer key.
Pearson Longman Companion Websites
www.longmancornerstone.com
www.longmankeystone.com
The Longman Cornerstone and Longman Keystone
companion website provides additional tools for assessment and
teaching. There are a variety of resources for both the student and the
teacher. The site contains the following resources for assessment:
- daily oral reading fluency (with information on fluency benchmarks)
- daily writing fluency
- writing workshop activities for each unit
- assessment audio support
- project links
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