4/10/19
Yesterday, students in grades 8-11 began the State assessment with the PSAT and SAT tests. These tests are all aligned to college readiness and are part of the College Board Suite of assessments which culminate with the SAT in 11th grade. This allows students, parents, and staff to track student progress from one year to the next and to help students remediate between assessments. It is a great benefit to all Michigan students that our State pays for 3 PSATs and a free college entrance exam (the SAT) and that it is provided during the school day in a familiar environment by school personnel.
Here are some key pieces of follow up information:
Students “own” their data and results. The College Board provides all students with the opportunity to set up an online account to access their scores in the reporting portal. As they create the account they will be asked for our school’s code, it is: 231595. Student scores will be available individually in the reporting portal at the end of May before the school will be provided with scores for the cohort as a whole at the end of June. For instructions on how to set up a College Board account click this link: https://pages.collegeboard.org/account-help/how-create-account.
To see a video demonstration, click this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3a9x3LV2Lg
Once students have created College Board accounts they can choose to create a Khan Academy account and to link the accounts for access to FREE online official SAT practice. For information on how to link College Board and Khan Academy accounts click this link: https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/sat/k12-educators/advising-instruction/practice-resources/link-accounts
When results become available in the portal we will notify you to go online and check your student’s scores. We will also provide information that will help you to navigate the reporting portal and to make sense of the various score reports available. One exciting feature is that every student will be able to see the actual test, if they had the correct or incorrect answers and some feedback on next steps to make improvements before they test again the following year. We look forward to providing you with more information on this at the end of May.
Scott Sherman
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