Assessment

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Colegio teachers, students, parents, and administrators have a wide variety of assessment tools at their disposal to measure achievement and growth.  Although testing data is only one important piece of evaluating student learning and school success, these tools are used to inform our instruction and student learning.  You'll see that our assessment tools include diagnostics for both English and Spanish, so that parents, teachers, and students can monitor language acquisition in both languages of the campus.  Our assessment reports provide actionable data about student learning that can be used to strategically help all students grow and achieve in both English and Spanish.

Literacy in English

  • K-1 students take DIBELS each quarter to evaluate their progression with phonics, phonemic awareness, fluency, and comprehension.
  • Students in grades 2-6 take the ATI-Galileo reading test each quarter to evaluate their mastery of the Arizona College and Career Readiness Standards.
  • Students in grades 2-6 will be taking Arizona's ELA test that measures both reading and writing.
  • The curriculum materials, Journeys 2014 and Reading Horizons, contain formative assessments used by teachers to measure learning and guide instruction within the classroom

Literacy in Spanish

  • The Bilingual Syntax Measure I and II (BSM-1 grades PreK-2 and BSM-II grades 3-12) and/or the Bilingual Verbal Ability Tests (BVAT) to gauge language dominance and overall bilingual ability (English or Spanish) as well as track language proficiency growth in Spanish regardless if it’s the students’ native language or second language.
  • IDEL, which tests phonics, phonemic awareness, fluency, and comprehension for  grades K-3
  • Evaluación del desarrollo de la lectura® 2 (EDL2)  to determine as well as track reading level, in Spanish, based on reading fluency and reading comprehension
  • The curriculum materials, Benchmark and Imagine Learning Espanol, contain formative assessments used by teachers to measure learning and guide instruction within the classroom.

Math

  • K-1 students take CBM each quarter to evaluate their progression with math literacy.
  • Students in grades 2-6 take the Galileo math test each quarter to evaluate their mastery of the Arizona College and Career Readiness Standards.
  • The curriculum materials, Envision Math and Dreambox, contain formative assessments used by teachers to measure learning and guide instruction within the classroom.