Congratulations St. Johns County, Florida!

Greetings Blogosphere!

Yesterday, a success story found its way to my inbox so I thought I’d share the good news! St. Johns County School District in sunny Florida used Discovery Education Assessment: Predictive Benchmark for the first time this year in grades 2-5 in reading/language arts and math, and grades 3-5 in science.

Check out the media release from them: May 28, 2009

Here’s some of the information from the media release:

Grade level results on the SSS comparing 2008 to 2009:

3rd Grade Reading	Percent of students with level 3 and above improved from 85% to 86%	1st in the state
4th Grade Reading	Percent of students with level 3 and above improved from 82% to 86%	1st in the state
5th Grade Reading	Percent of students with level 3 and above improved from 80% to 83%	1st in the state

3rd Grade Math	Percent of students with level 3 and above improved from 88% to 90%	1st in the state
4th Grade Math	Percent of students with level 3 and above improved from 79% to 86%	1st in the state
5th Grade Math	Percent of students with level 3 and above improved from 72% to 74%	1st in the state

5th Grade Science

Percent of students with level 3 and above improved from 55% to 60%

3rd in the state

Discovery Education Assessment: Predictive Benchmark is used by districts like St. John’s County Florida to make data driven decisions and improve instruction.

Congratulations St Johns County!

Your Friendly Assessment Nerd, Porter

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