6-8 Assessment

  • Assessments offer valuable insights to guide teaching methods, monitor student progress, and serve as the foundation for evaluations. While certain assessments are mandatory for all students, teachers also employ others to determine specific instructional needs. Various types of assessment enable the collection of data about students, so teachers can make informed decisions and design effective instruction.

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    Unit Assessments

    • The middle school ELA curriculum schedules mid-unit and unit assessments to provide teachers and students adequate data to evaluate student progress and overall achievement. 

    • These assessments include multiple choice, Technology Enhanced Items, short answer, and extended responses. Variety in assessment offers teachers additional formative assessment insights and better aligns to the format of the SOL Integrated Reading and Writing test. 

     

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    Informal & Formal Essays

    • Students write in response to reading and discussion each day. Some of these shorter, more frequent writings are expanded into multi-paragraph essays to support teaching and learning relating to composing, written expression, and mechanics. 

    • These essays are submitted via NoRedInk, allowing teachers and students to take advantage of program tools, to ensure timely feedback, and to continually develop students' eletronic writing portfolios.

     

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    Lexia PowerUp 

    Lexia PowerUp delivers science of reading-based solutions, designed to maximize student learning through a truly personalized experience that addresses individual skill gaps and impacts reading proficiency and academic success. This targeted approach allows each student to make literacy gains quickly and develop the reading and critical thinking skills necessary to meet the demands of secondary curriculum and beyond. 
     

    VA Standards of Learning (SOL) Tests

     

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    Overview

    • Beginning with the second year of implementation (2022-2023) and beyond, legislation requires that the grades 3-8 reading and mathematics growth assessments be administered to students once in the fall and once in the winter (mid-year) during the school year. In addition to the growth assessments, the SOL tests for grade 3-8 reading and mathematics will continue to be administered. 

    • SOL Growth tests provide valuable data to inform instructional planning in whole group, small group, and 1:1 settings. 

    SOL Test Blueprints