The first year results of the Alaska Measures of Progress online assessment for students show that Kenai Peninsula students continue to outperform state median scores in English language arts and math.
Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Spokeswoman Pegge Erkeneff says the data is now available online.
Erkeneff: “It’ll be good information for us to look at, analyze, and be working with for sure. It’s a new assessment and so we’ll be looking at how we can adapt to that as well.”
The AMP testing replaces Alaska’s Standards Based Assessments. According to the district’s release, “AMP questions in the new standards measure higher order thinking skills and complex problem solving in contrast to recalling facts and simple processes in the old SBAs.”
The district’s third through tenth grade students took the AMP assessment this spring and the results show that local students meet these new standards at a higher rate than their peers across the state.
Parents of local students should receive individual student reports from the district office with English language arts and math results in December.
Links
- Alaska Department of Education and Early Development, AMP webpage
- State of Alaska AMP results, 2015
- KPBSD District AMP results, 2015
- KPBSD School AMP results, 2015
- DEED media packet for AMP news conference, November 9, 2015
- KPBSD AMP webpage, http://bit.ly/AMPtest
- AMP Results Tool Kit: Information to help educators and parents understand and use the reports and results from the 2015 AMP assessment.
- Sample English Language Arts (ELA) questions and achievement levels
- Sample Math questions and achievement levels
