Frightful STAAR AHA's! by SALLIE THOMPSON https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3 What is your biggest takeaway from taking the STAAR test? en-us 2024-10-21 17:38:44 UTC 2024-10-25 14:27:54 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/2754.png https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187675213 each question had several steps

]]> 2024-10-25 14:24:39 UTC https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187675213 https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187675422 more place value questions than I thought

]]> 2024-10-25 14:24:48 UTC https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187675422 https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187675751 The test had a lot of place value questions.

]]> 2024-10-25 14:25:04 UTC https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187675751 https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187675778 the kids need to be doing math on paper and not a computer to be able to do what the questions are asking


]]> 2024-10-25 14:25:05 UTC https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187675778 https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187676137 My aha was that a lot of the concepts we are teaching is being tested. They needed to pick apart the steps.

]]> 2024-10-25 14:25:18 UTC https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187676137 https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187676147 tiny screen, little words, lots of scrolling


]]> 2024-10-25 14:25:19 UTC https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187676147 https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187676172 I did not realize students had to navigate between 2 stories within the same question.


]]> 2024-10-25 14:25:20 UTC https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187676172 https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187676286 the rigor of the questioning-a lot of inferencing

]]> 2024-10-25 14:25:23 UTC https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187676286 https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187676304 I think students need to be doing math using pen and paper. This seems more advanced than when I was in 3rd grade.

]]> 2024-10-25 14:25:24 UTC https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187676304 https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187676411 The essay question was much more complex than I expected for 3rd grade.


]]> 2024-10-25 14:25:29 UTC https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187676411 https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187676493 Learning how to navigate through the online stories and questions was interesting

]]> 2024-10-25 14:25:33 UTC https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187676493 https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187676673 I was surprised by how hard it is to narrow down to the "clear" answer from the others.

]]> 2024-10-25 14:25:41 UTC https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187676673 https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187676693 Our unit test are similar to the STAAR.

]]> 2024-10-25 14:25:42 UTC https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187676693 https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187676770 kids are expected to go back and read and compare

]]> 2024-10-25 14:25:45 UTC https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187676770 https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187676801 Students need strong reading skills even to be successful at math assessment.

]]> 2024-10-25 14:25:47 UTC https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187676801 https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187676924 The students have to type out some of their answers and be reading on grade level to read and answer the questions.

]]> 2024-10-25 14:25:53 UTC https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187676924 https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187677071 Benchmark has the same format as the test.

]]> 2024-10-25 14:26:01 UTC https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187677071 https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187677437 the questions are getting harder and the passage is a poem

]]> 2024-10-25 14:26:16 UTC https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187677437 https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187677558 The evidence needed to be proved by what was in the passage.

]]> 2024-10-25 14:26:20 UTC https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187677558 https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187677572 You cannot just teach error analysis to deduce multiple choice questions. The test has a multitude of different question types. It's more important than ever to make sure students truly know the content and not just how to take a test.

]]> 2024-10-25 14:26:20 UTC https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187677572 https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187677598 The wording of the questions is high level. The kids need to be able to understand how to go back and find answers in the story without any direction of which paragraph to look at.

]]> 2024-10-25 14:26:21 UTC https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187677598 https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187677643 Students need brain breaks during the test.

]]> 2024-10-25 14:26:24 UTC https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187677643 https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187677717 These questions are easier than the test we take in 2nd grade!

]]> 2024-10-25 14:26:28 UTC https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187677717 https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187677963 The next contestant of Love is Blind noticed that the format of the staar is cleaner, the spacing of the questions, and having them bulleted, makes it easier to read. Our questions are in paragraph form.


]]> 2024-10-25 14:26:39 UTC https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187677963 https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187678312 I did not realize students would have to navigate between two stories for a single question.

]]> 2024-10-25 14:26:53 UTC https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187678312 https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187678786 lots of navigating for a student on a chromebook- can be hard for kids


]]> 2024-10-25 14:27:10 UTC https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187678786 https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187678924 Students had to read to be able to do the math assessment. Lots of logical thinking!

]]> 2024-10-25 14:27:16 UTC https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187678924 https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187679120 Each question had multiple steps.

]]> 2024-10-25 14:27:23 UTC https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187679120 https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187679183 The STAAR looks very similar to the Benchmark assessments we are currently doing! So many skills needed for every questions. Main idea--or central idea in this test---author's purpose in the short answer needing to be supported by text evidence, using context clues to define vocabulary, etc.

]]> 2024-10-25 14:27:25 UTC https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187679183 https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187679336 The level of understanding that they expect from an 8-9 year old is absurd! And doing questions that involve more than one reading passage is not plausible for that age level.

]]> 2024-10-25 14:27:32 UTC https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187679336 https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187679458 Our Benchmark Assessments look almost identical to this testing. This should help out third grade next year.

]]> 2024-10-25 14:27:37 UTC https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187679458 https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187680782 I noticed that the structure of the test is

like the Benchmark assessments we are

using.

]]> 2024-10-25 14:28:31 UTC https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187680782 https://padlet.com/sthompson328/qdouh83lkrz6gyn3/wish/3187681215 I realized how important it is for the foundation of math

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