Assessment Information

SOAR Assessment and Analysis


Data Management and Policies	Three guides to help develop procedures and policies to maintain needed confidentiality and quality.
Assessment Plans and Templates	Assessment Plans Testing Schedule Templates

STARS Project Support	This site can be updated at a moment's notice to meet school requests. It contains any additional materials to support the ESU#13 STARS Consortium Scantron Achievement Series assessments, accommodations, tables of specifications, extra worksheets, and teacher materials.
Quality Criteria	Presentations and support materials for helping staff understand some ways of meeting the Nebraska assessment criteria.
Alignment of Assessments to Standards	Exhibit 3 Feb 2006 This compiles NDE approved alignments for various tests validated by NDE/Buros and ESU STARS assessments.

Monitoring Opportunity to Learn Forms	Forms include columns to record when each standard is taught and assessed. Available for Reading , Math, Science and Social Studies
Mastery Levels for each school year were determine in May after the testing season	Mastery Levels Archive
Portfolio
4 A's Rubric Use to evaluate your assessment system.	Awareness Alignment Assessment Accountability
NWEA	Link to North West Evaluation Association Chart of NE Standards Measured Reading/Language Math Science Growth Norms Reading Growth Norms Math Growth Norm Information Language Growth Norms Goal Structures Reading Goal Structures Math Goal Structures Language Goal Structures NWEA Using Data to Guide Instruction Class Breakdown by Subject and RIT Student Goal Sheet Conference/Self-Assessment Lexile Conversion Differentiated Instruction (Ladders) How to Use the Ladders Ladder Template Powerpoint Presentations Climbing the Data Ladder Module #2 Evaluating Growth Patterns Module #3 Goal-Setting Module #4 Using State Standards and the Learning Continuum Module #6 The Lexile Framework Module #7 Looking at Successful Schools
DIBELS	Official DIBELS Home Page Summary of DIBELS Tests Chart of NE Standards Measured Reading Curriculum Maps
ESU #13 Stars	Performance Level Descriptors R/W/S/L Math Science Social Studies
2007 ESU #13 Reading Assessment Consortium Portfolios	Grade 4 Grade 8 High School Grade 4 NWEA Grade 8 NWEA High School NWEA
2007 QC#2 Assessment Portfolio Templates Save these documents to your computer before making changes!! (right click with your mouse, save target as; left click and save; or double click, file, save as...)	Grade 4 Grade 8 High School
Assessment Portfolios	Quality Indicator Documentation for Math 2004 Quality Indicator Documentation for Reading 2003 Quality Indicator Documentation for Math 2002
Student-involved Assessment	Student Led Conferences

STAR Updates http://www.nde.state.ne.us/stars/index.html	NDE website with latest requirements.