What's the Math Summative Assessment?
I had no idea yet another test was happening in SPS but apparently it is true. It's a two-day test called the Math Summative Assessment. The window for testing started May 12th and is to finish May 23rd. From SPS (partial to first and second grade teachers): Seattle Public Schools will administer a summative mathematics assessment this spring to all first and second graders. The purpose of this assessment is to measure the annual progress of primary grade students toward (sic) meeting Common Core State Standards. These new summative assessments were developed by a team of SPS teachers and members of the mathematics department with support from an independent testing consultants. The components of the assessment were field tested in the spring of 2013 and winter of 2014. Were you notified? Because the parent who told me said her child's teacher mentioned it in a weekly update otherwise she would not have known. I kind of doubt parents were ...