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CAASPP (California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress) - This Monday, May 8, marks the start of the CAASPP testing. All students in California, beginning in third grade, are assessed in English language arts (reading, writing, and listening) and math.
PLEASE set your child up for a successful experience by ensuring they:
- get to bed on time all week, starting Sunday night
- eat a healthy and substantial breakfast
- bring a reusable water bottle (the disposable plastic bottles make a LOT of noise)
- arrive/enter the Virginia gate no later than 7:50am
If your child expresses any nervousness about this assessment, feel free to use any of my talking points:
- you don't get a grade on this test and it's not used for your report card
- it helps identify what you already know how to do on your own AND what you are ready to learn next
- to do that ^ it's a computer-adaptive test - it just keeps giving you a question that's a smidge harder than the one before until there's a question you can't answer correctly on your own. Everyone will get questions that they can't answer and that's okay (the test is designed that way)
- you'll probably get to read about some interesting topics and learn something new
- you will definitely be growing your brain by working hard on hard stuff - YAY!
For anxious parents - This is just one measurement tool and is not the sum total of your child as a student. But the information is useful to teachers, site administrators, district personnel, and yes, even the governor! You will probably find it most useful next year when you have two years' worth of data and can start to see trends.