Reply #19: We're going to use the ACT-style testing in Data Director. [View All]

[knitter4democracy]

There's no way to accurately assess writing in Data Director, so we're going to do a pre-assessment from there on grammar, reading skills, and vocabulary (as it's our belief that this method works on all of those as well as writing) and then an initial writing that we'll use the MME standards to assess. At the end of the quarter, we'll repeat those to see if the scores went up.

As for reading level standards, the only thing we worry about on that is the MME, so using MME (which in our state is based on the ACT and includes the ACT for all juniors) testing gives us the best data for what we're worried about.