Monday, February 11, 2013
Dexter Community Schools' scores were well above state averages. Seventh grade scores drop in math, reading and writing.
Students at Dexter Community Schools continue to outperform the state in all subjects, according to the recently-released results of the 2012 Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP) test. During the MEAP exam, taken during fall 2012, public school students in grades 3-9 were tested in math, reading, writing, social studies and/or science depending on the grade level. Across Michigan, students showed improvement in reading, math and writing in 2012, with the improvement seen in all grades and most demographic groups. In Dexter, however while there were relatively few changes from last year's scores — with improvement in some areas and dips in proficiency levels in others — Mill Creek Middle School's seventh graders saw significant …
Check back with Dexter Patch at 10 a.m. Monday for a look at how students fared on their Fall 2012 Michigan Education Assessment Program exams.
Michigan students' MEAP results will be released Monday morning for students in Dexter and in 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 3 through 9: 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 on 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 Replace MEAP.) Last year, Dexter students scored a …
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 …
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Math and science subjects scored lower in Dexter than previous years using the state's new ranking system.
Test scores from the 2011 Michigan Educational Assessment Program were released Wednesday. The test measures progress in subjects such as math, reading, writing, science and social studies for third through ninth-graders. Results show areas for both improvement and decline for Dexter Community Schools. Forty-one percent of third-grade students in Dexter were ranked proficient in math, versus 39 percent in 2010 and 42 percent in 2009. Third-grade students also saw changes in their reading scores, with 81.4 percent proficiency in 2011 versus 85.6 proficiency in 2010. In math, scores were up across the district from 2010, save for fifth-graders, which showed a district-total decline of 2.6 percent proficiency, and sixth-graders, who saw a 15.…
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
School officials say data will better help teachers prepare students for standardized testing.
Better teacher training, more emphasis on math and science and consistency across curriculum. That's what is needed in Dexter in coming years to offset what Superintendent Mary Marshall says will be a decline in the number of students considered proficient in basic academic subjects. Marshall addressed the Dexter Community Schools Board of Education at its meeting on Monday, following the release of the Michigan Department of Education's revised Michigan Merit Exam (MME) and MEAP scores in November. State education officials conducted an experiment in which they analyzed how 2010 scores would have fared against 2011 goals approved by the Michigan Department of Education for the MEAP and the Michigan Merit Exam. The "adjusted" scores …
Sarah O'Brien
12:14 pm on Wednesday, February 13, 2013
It would be great if the district actually used the scores to improve education, but they don't seem to. Everyone seems content with the status quo of overtesting. Our students are not learning better or given more enrichment. It is test after test. more ›