Beginning of the year ecart tests FCPS-review of previous year or new material

[Anonymous]

Are they assessing what the kids retained from last year or what they will learn for the upcoming year to get a baseline? My daughter was panicked and said she failed the test. I told her not to worry because she is just starting the school year. She said there were lots of things she never learned before. Do they give them a test that reviews the upcoming years work or the previous? Wondering if our old school did a poor job or if this was just to see if they can skip any units this year. I try not to contact the teacher unless it's something major. She calmed down and seemed over it.

[Anonymous]

Some schools do a beginning of the year assessment on standards for the current school year to determine what the student already knows. Some do an assessment on the previous year's standards to determine what they retained. You should contact the teacher to see which version it was.

[Anonymous]

They should NOT be use for grading. Keep an eye on that.

[Anonymous]

It appears from ECart that my third grade son was given a few assessments - the 3rd grade SOL in reading and math, which he obviously didn't learn everything on those tests yet - and a beginning of the year test - that he seemed to already know, but I don't know what was on it.

I will say that when my son told the story, he said he took a test and he scored 34 out of 50 and my husband was kind of like uh what kind of a test was it???? so that is why he checked ecart and it turned out it was the SOL.

[Anonymous]

There was a letter that came home explaining the tests. It says that the test is to identify students who have gaps in foundational literacy and maths skills. Your child maybe given extra support based on the results.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There was a letter that came home explaining the tests. It says that the test is to identify students who have gaps in foundational literacy and maths skills. Your child maybe given extra support based on the results.

Are you the OP?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There was a letter that came home explaining the tests. It says that the test is to identify students who have gaps in foundational literacy and maths skills. Your child maybe given extra support based on the results.

Are you the OP?

No. I'm a parent with children at an FCPS who received the letter in the weekly folder. The letter states that FCPS has adopted a universal screener assessment so I thought that this is what the OPs child had been give. Letter also states that the screener assessment is computer adaptive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There was a letter that came home explaining the tests. It says that the test is to identify students who have gaps in foundational literacy and maths skills. Your child maybe given extra support based on the results.

Are you the OP?

No. I'm a parent with children at an FCPS who received the letter in the weekly folder. The letter states that FCPS has adopted a universal screener assessment so I thought that this is what the OPs child had been give. Letter also states that the screener assessment is computer adaptive.

Letter also states that you can find more information at https://www.fcps.edu/node/33718

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There was a letter that came home explaining the tests. It says that the test is to identify students who have gaps in foundational literacy and maths skills. Your child maybe given extra support based on the results.

This assessment is NOT an eCart test.

[Anonymous]

Where are you seeing this info? I can't find it on SIS or Blackboard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There was a letter that came home explaining the tests. It says that the test is to identify students who have gaps in foundational literacy and maths skills. Your child maybe given extra support based on the results.

This assessment is NOT an eCart test.

"eCart tests" are really Horizon assessments.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There was a letter that came home explaining the tests. It says that the test is to identify students who have gaps in foundational literacy and maths skills. Your child maybe given extra support based on the results.

This assessment is NOT an eCart test.

Thanks. I was just going to post the same thing, but I will back you and agree that they need to understand that the Universal Screener and eCart assessments are two different things.

[Anonymous]

DS in 4th took one yesterday in math on eCart. According to him it was a pretest. My 1st graders has been talking about tests and says some are easy and some are hard. I told her not to worry about any of it and try her best. I don't look up their results.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There was a letter that came home explaining the tests. It says that the test is to identify students who have gaps in foundational literacy and maths skills. Your child maybe given extra support based on the results.

This assessment is NOT an eCart test.

"eCart tests" are really Horizon assessments.

And that still isn't what the letter OP received is about. The assessment referenced is a universal screener called iReady. There's no studying for it. It's an assessment to see what, if any interventions might be needed to address gaps in basic skills.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There was a letter that came home explaining the tests. It says that the test is to identify students who have gaps in foundational literacy and maths skills. Your child maybe given extra support based on the results.

This assessment is NOT an eCart test.

"eCart tests" are really Horizon assessments.

And that still isn't what the letter OP received is about. The assessment referenced is a universal screener called iReady. There's no studying for it. It's an assessment to see what, if any interventions might be needed to address gaps in basic skills.

The OP wasn't the one who referenced the letter. That was another poster. The OP's child took a Horizon assessment. The testing window for the Universal Screener begins next Monday so her child would not have had a chance to take the Universal Screener yet.