Benchmark Madness

September 19, 2008

Today there were no students attending DPS schools.  It was a day set aside for teachers to score the Benchmark tests and (in the extra time, of course) to do other kinds of assessments.  I invested about 10 evening hours this past week scoring the Benchmark tests of my students so that I could use this day to administer the DRA reading assessment that had been mandated for all students who were not “proficient” on the CSAP tests last spring and/or those who did not test in the proficient zone on the Benchmark tests administered… Continue reading →