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  • William H Brown Elementary School
  • Chicago, IL
  • Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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At our school, we use mClass to assess our K-3 students' reading and math skills/growth. With this program, a teacher uses an iPad for individual student testing. It is a very useful program and does not require teachers to use paper to assess the students (like many other programs) which helps the environment, saves the school money and supports organization. Students are assessed three times a year in reading and progress monitored every two to four weeks depending on their assessment results to inform instruction. In math, they are assessed/progress monitored even more frequently. The results are uploaded to the mClass website for teachers to analyze the data and then plan for future instruction. Teachers then use this program to print various reports to help inform whole-group/small-group instruction, create flexible grouping, explain data to parents, use as evidence for an IEP referral, etc. The best way to view and use the data is on a laptop or computer. It is possible on iPads, but they aren't as user friendly when viewing and using the data gathered from the assessment. Our school currently does not have enough laptops for each teacher in the building. We are short a few this year which is why this project includes a Chromebook in order to assess/progress monitor students consistently, teachers need to work one-on-one with students while the rest of the class works independently in differentiated centers. One of the centers that we use is a technology center, but it becomes limited while students are being assessed and progress monitored (which happens at minimum every two weeks) because teachers and other staff members need the iPads to assess students. With extra iPads, teachers will not have to limit student technology use during their differentiated center time.

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At our school, we use mClass to assess our K-3 students' reading and math skills/growth. With this program, a teacher uses an iPad for individual student testing. It is a very useful program and does not require teachers to use paper to assess the students (like many other programs) which helps the environment, saves the school money and supports organization. Students are assessed three times a year in reading and progress monitored every two to four weeks depending on their assessment results to inform instruction. In math, they are assessed/progress monitored even more frequently. The results are uploaded to the mClass website for teachers to analyze the data and then plan for future instruction. Teachers then use this program to print various reports to help inform whole-group/small-group instruction, create flexible grouping, explain data to parents, use as evidence for an IEP referral, etc. The best way to view and use the data is on a laptop or computer. It is possible on iPads, but they aren't as user friendly when viewing and using the data gathered from the assessment. Our school currently does not have enough laptops for each teacher in the building. We are short a few this year which is why this project includes a Chromebook in order to assess/progress monitor students consistently, teachers need to work one-on-one with students while the rest of the class works independently in differentiated centers. One of the centers that we use is a technology center, but it becomes limited while students are being assessed and progress monitored (which happens at minimum every two weeks) because teachers and other staff members need the iPads to assess students. With extra iPads, teachers will not have to limit student technology use during their differentiated center time.

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