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Where The Wild Things Are: Bring K-12 Students To Special Collections For Adventures!, Rachel Wen-Paloutzian, Carol Raby

Rachel Wen-Paloutzian

Mca Scores And Student Success, Aaron Jackson

School District Data

The Minnesota Comprehensive Assessment (MCA) is a test taken by all Minnesota students in high school. There are three sections on the MCA Test: Math, Reading, and Science. MCA scores are used primarily for ranking Minnesota high schools. Schools are then able to tell where they rank in the state of Minnesota. The Reading and Science section are taken in 10th grade, with scores ranging from 1000-1099. Math assessments are given in 11th grade, with ranges 1100-1199. The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MNSCU) used MCA scores to detect students who they believed would not be career ready. Numerous studies …

Map Test Analysis, Ansai Bio-Sawe

School District Data

The Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) is a computerized adaptive test, unlike a traditional test in which, students have the same questions with a predefined amount of time to take the exam. In the MAP test, each student has a different set of questions, which varies on responses to earlier questions. In fact, if the student gives the correct answer to a question, the next questions will be harder. The opposite occurs as well: if a student gives an incorrect answer, the next questions become easier. The MAP test is used to see if a student is on –track for …

Alignment Between Star And Mca For Grades 10 And 11, Li Xian Cha

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STAR, the products from a software company, Renaissance, are used for screening and progress-monitoring overtime. An alignment was completed by Renaissance between STAR and MCA, the Minnesota Comprehensive Assessment, for grades 3 through 8. This research study will help contribute to the research of alignment between STAR and MCA. This research is predicting the expected STAR scores by season for student proficiency in MCA reading and math at 50% and 90% probability levels. The STAR scores needed to achieve 50% and 90% chance of MCA proficiency for each season will be calculated in this study. Overall, the STAR scores needed …

Early Reading Analysis, Jessica Chiantera

School District Data

Students take different tests in Pre-K and Kindergarten to track their academic progress. For literacy skills, these tests are the Teaching Strategies GOLD, which is taken in Pre-K, and the FastBridge earlyReading, which is taken in Kindergarten. The objective of this report is to find the relationship between the Pre-K and Kindergarten tests and find which tests are the most important predictors of students overall success in Kindergarten. This study looked at students in three school districts: Princeton, Sartell-St. Stephen, and Sauk Rapids-Rice. The main things found in this research are the following:

• Regression models comparing the four Kindergarten subtests …

Being An Advocate For The Effective Integration And Education Of Refugee Children, Kate E. Crockett, Daniel Jeng

National Youth Advocacy and Resilience Conference

Georgia has a growing refugee community (Division of Family and Children Services, n.d.). Successful refugee resettlement and K-12 education is dependent on school personnel understanding the emotional wellness and challenges of this population. Advocating on behalf of this population, this presentation will address the state of refugees in Georgia. Information and discussion will address the various emotional roadblocks experienced by refugees that can be an impediment to successful integration in K-12 schools. Presenters will also provide participants with available resources to address these challenges.

Not Just The Playground: Adult Bullying In The K-12 Workplace, Cynthia J. Kleinheksel

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

This non-experimental, explanatory, quantitative research study surveyed K-12 educators and other K-12 school employees to gather data about negative school workplace climate using the Negative Acts Questionnaire-Revised (NAQ-R). Through the NAQ-R and other demographic survey questions, the researcher studied the prevalence and characteristics of adult-on-adult bullying in the K-12 workplace. Categories of Emotional Intimidation, Workplace Intimidation, and Physical Intimidation were identified and regressions were completed to analyze results against a study by Einarsen, Hoel, and Notelaers (2009). Using R. J. Bies's four categories of interactional justice, the characteristics of adult bullying in the K-12 workplace were identified and analyzed to …