Where Children Succeed
Assessments
The Wilson Central School District follows New York’s Educational Assessment Strategy which says that we must collect information from multiple sources to understand our students’ learning. We can then use that information to make decisions about how to support their individual learning needs. We use multiple sources of evidence because each type of assessment has a unique purpose and use.
Purpose
What is learned about student performance and how the results will be used to guide instruction and support student needs.
Use
Results from each type of assessment have a specific use, or interpretation, in terms of the questions that can be answered about a student's learning.
NYS Assessments
Our students partipate in the following state required testing:
- Grades 3-8:English Language Arts and Math
- Grades 5 & 8: Science
- Grades 9-12: English Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies
District Assessments
- Formative & Informative Assessments
- Regular teacher interactions and brief checks for student understanding happen multiple times every day in the cassroom and provide feedback to both students and teachers. This also includes self and peer assessments.
- Classroom Assessments
- Monthly and weekly classroom assessments such as quizzes and unit tests provide a summary of what students have learned at the end of a designated period.
- Interim/Benchmark/Diagnostic Assessments
- Administered at specified times during an established sequence of instruction, these assessments evaluate students knowledge and skills relative to a set of longer term learning goals and provide updates as students make progress toward the goals. These can include project and performance based assessments.