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| Individualized
Education Programs (IEPs) |
The
results of WESTEST 2 are entered in the appropriate boxes
for the appropriate year as a scale score (SS), a performance
level (PL), for reading - the Lexile score and for math -
the Quantile score. This information is on the student's WESTEST
2 report. There is a column for other results such as the
WV Writing Assessment or the ACT assessment. If more room
is needed, the results may be reported in the Present Levels
narrative.
The most current formative
assessments may be Acuity benchmarks or custom-made tests,
learning-styles inventories, rubrics, rating scales, and
other performance-based assessments. This is not an all
inclusive list. For gifted students, above-grade level assessment
is needed in order to justify acceleration.
Although rubrics are available
that measure separate components of higher order thinking,
some gifted education teachers in West Virginia saw the
need for a holistic rubric to assess gifted students' work
and behavior that may be used as benchmark or formative
data to describe present levels of academic achievement
and functional performance in developing annual goals for
an IEP in WV. The result of much study and writing is our
Learning Skills/Behavior Rubric. This may
be used as a pre-post assessment and/or a self-assessment
by the student.
Learning
Skills/Behavior Rubric - Word
Learning
Skills/Behavior Rubric - PDF
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| West
Virginia Department of Education |
Office
of Special Programs, Extended and Early Learning
Building 6, Room 304
1900 Kanawha Blvd. E.
Charleston, WV 25305 |
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| Gifted
education teachers in West Virginia receive this newsletter
bi-weekly from the West Virginia Department of Education.
To change your e-mail address or update your information,
please email Vickie Mohnacky at vmohnack@access.k12.wv.us
or call (304) 558-2696. |
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