Fast Bridge Assessment Paper

The 21st Century Educator is inundated with a plethora of assessments which dominate the education landscape from one side to the other. Whether one is assessing formatively or summatively, educators are evaluating on a weekly basis. In fact, in Citrus County, students take a reading comprehension test called Fast Bridge three times a year, which helps them see their potential college readiness skills and what improvements they need to work on. They also take a District created assessment twice a year, which consists of 9 grade level passages that they must take over a 2-month period time. This test focuses mainly on all of the standards that our students will be tested on in the Spring FSA. Not to mention, the formative assessments given on a

At the conclusion of eighth grade these students are totally burnt out from taking test and have lost the motivation to care about the results. That said, Foundations of Measurement was imperative to helping me gain a thorough foundation on what to do with the data I receive throughout the year, how to decipher and explain, and help my students to use the feedback from the data to make positive changes in their work habits. I believe that having to analyze the data and focus on a distribution of scores helped me have a stronger understanding about the regression to the mean, standard error of measurement, and the standard deviation. A few weeks ago, I sat at my kitchen table on a Saturday morning and struggled with completing the analyzing data and studying for the first official quiz. I went a few steps further and accessed you tube videos and self-help websites to build the schema needed to increase my comprehension of the current data. The process we went through in this class, helped prepare me to communicate feedback to my students one on one to review their current FSA scores and Fast Bridge results. They will create goals before they take another assessment and will have a better understanding of