Monday, February 11, 2013
However, the district's performance compared to its own 2011 results was not uniform, with some improvements and some declines.
Youngsters in the Berkley School District performed better in all subject areas and at all grade levels than students statewide, according to the 2012 Michigan Educational Assessment Program results released Monday. However, the district's performance compared to its own 2011 results was not uniform, with some improvements and some declines (see chart, below). Public school students in grades three through nine were tested in math, reading, writing, social studies and/or science depending on the grade level during the MEAP exam taken during the fall. Michigan students showed improvement in reading, math and writing in 2012, with the improvement seen in all grades and most demographic groups. However, students statewide, including those in …
Check back with Huntington Woods-Berkley Patch after 10 a.m. Monday for a look at how students fared on their fall 2012 Michigan Education Assessment Program exams.
Results from the fall 2012 Michigan Education Assessment Program will be released Monday morning for students in the Berkley School District and all public schools across the state. The results were scheduled to be released at 10 a.m. The Michigan Education Assessment Program exam assesses students in grades three through nine. The annual test is designed to show students' proficiency in career- and college-ready materials. The MEAP is administered by the Department of Education, which is releasing the data Monday. The MEAP as a standard of measuring student achievement is on its way out; beginning in the 2014-15 school year, students will be given an online exam to test their knowledge of core subjects. (Read: Just the Facts: New Test to …
Friday, May 4, 2012
The district is reviewing the Readiness Assessment Tool and evaluating its their technology for the changes taking effect in the 2014-15 school year.
Starting in the 2014-15 school year, schools in Michigan will be administering online exams to students instead of the traditional MME and MEAP to test core subjects. While the test, called Smarter Balanced, was just detailed Monday by the Michigan Department of Education, the Berkley School District said it’s already on the path to preparing for the transition. Smarter Balanced released a Technology Readiness Tool for districts to measure readiness to move forward with an online assessment program, of which an estimated 6 percent of districts have completed so far, according to Joseph Martineau, executive director of the Bureau of Assessment & Accountability for the Michigan Department of Education. Mary Beth Fitzpatrick, director of …
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Changes will take place during the 2014-2015 school year.
Paper and pencil for statewide tests will soon be a thing of the past for Michigan students as they prepare to take a new online assessment detailed during a roundtable Monday by the Michigan Department of Education. The exam will replace the standardized MEAP and MME assessments in math, reading and writing, beginning during the 2014-2015 school year. The MEAP and MME assessments will still be given in science and social studies. But unlike the tests students are used to, the new statewide exam will not have a common set of questions. Subsequent questions will be determined based on how a student answers the previous one. A correct answer yields a harder one. An incorrect responce yields an easier question. The goal is to have students …
The new online assessment will replace the MEAP and MME tests in math, reading and writing beginning during the 2014-15 school year.
Beginning in the 2014-15 school year, students throughout Michigan will be given an online exam to test their knowledge of core subjects. The test replaces the Michigan Merit Exam (MME) and the Michigan Educational Assessment Progam (MEAP) in all subjects except social science and science. Called Smarter Balanced, the exam was produced by The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, a state-led effort to provide consistent and comparable standards, aligned to the Common Core State Standards, in English language arts, literacy and mathematics. Smarter Balanced recently released a Technology Readiness Tool for districts to measure readiness to move to an online assessment program. Martineau said only about 6 percent of districts have taken …
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
District's curriculum director reports on the 2011 test results with new cut scores and previews a new evaluation test set to replace the MEAP.
Berkley's 2011 MEAP scores were "disappointing," but overall the school district's students taking the test were on par with other Oakland County districts and still scored well above the state averages. Mary Beth Fitzpatrick, the district's director of Curriculum, Technology, Assessment and Grants, presented a breakdown of the district's 2011 MEAP scores at Monday night's Board of Education meeting. Some of the results were, in her own words, "disappointing." The Michigan Department of Education's new, more rigorous way of evaluating test scores for grades 3-9, known as cut scores, brought down the scores for Berkley and around the state. With the tougher evaluation, scores in core subjects such as math and science dropped precipitously …
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Monday, March 12, 2012
The Berkley Board of Education meets on a new superintendent and other matters, starting at 7 o'clock tonight.
In addition to appointing a new superintendent, the Berkley Board of Education will consider a variety of topics at its regularly scheduled meeting tonight, including: MEAP report: Mary Beth Fitzpatrick, director of Curriculum, Technology, Assessment and Grants, will present the district’s results from the Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP). The presentation will highlight the student scores for 2011. Fitzpatrick will also show a comparison between this year’s and last year’s scores as reported by MDE, along with a review of the overall state assessment program. This year’s scores are of particular significance due to the drastic change in scores in all Michigan schools. Across the state, students and schools who have …
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012
School district scores well above state averages. Overall, reading and math are up while writing and social studies dip from 2010 test. Berkley
The annual MEAP scores, released Wednesday morning, show areas of improvement and decline for Berkley Schools in the last year while maintaining a higher level of proficiency in every grade level and every subject than students statewide. The 2011 Michigan Educational Assessment Program measures progress in subjects such as math, reading, writing, science and social studies for third through ninth-graders. In the data released publicly Wednesday, nearly 47 percent of Berkley third-grade students were ranked proficient in math, versus 53.3 percent in 2010 when adjusted for the state's new "cut scores." Third-grade students also saw changes in their reading scores, with 76.1 percent proficiency in 2011 versus 77.1 proficiency in 2010. In …
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Wednesday, December 21, 2011
The new state-approved guidelines will require schools to develop or enhance the curriculum in mathematics, reading and writing. In 2014, the Michigan Merit Exam and MEAP will be replaced by standardized evaluations under the plan.
The Common Core State Standards, which the State Board of Education unanimously adopted in June 2010, is a set of rigorous, college and career-ready curriculum guidelines for students that 46 states across the nation already adopted to bring consistency in education. "The standards will for the first time provide states with clear and consistent educational goals and represent a logical next step in our state's efforts to embrace high learning," Mike Flanagan, state superintendent of public instruction in Michigan said. According to the initiative, standards will require schools to develop or enhance the curriculum in mathematics, reading and writing, which Michigan districts already are doing. Beginning in 2014, the Michigan Merit Exam …
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