The Mississippi Department of Education issued the following statement.
The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) has released the fall 2021 assessment for kindergarten readiness.
Among the 33,265 kindergarteners tested, 31.8% scored kindergarten-ready with a score of 530 or higher on the
Kindergarten Readiness Assessment. Statewide, the average score was 487.
Results of students scoring kindergarten-ready in previous years were 36.6% in fall 2019 and 36.1% in fall 2018.
MDE
allowed school districts to test students remotely in fall 2020 due to
the pandemic. Districts and schools had access to their own
district-level and school-level data to make instructional
decisions to improve readiness and growth. The fall 2020 results were
not publicly reported because of concerns with comparability of data
from previous years, validity and test administration flexibilities.
The
Kindergarten Readiness Assessment evaluates early literacy skills, revealing students’
understanding and capabilities upon entering school.
The
minimum beginning-of-year kindergarten scale score associated with 70%
mastery is 530. A score of 530 indicates a student can identify most
letters of the alphabet and match most
letters to their sounds. Students are beginning to “read” picture books
and are building their vocabulary, listening skills and understanding
of print.
Research
shows 85% of students who score 530 or higher on the assessment at the
beginning of kindergarten are proficient in reading at the end of 3rd grade.
“The Kindergarten Readiness Assessment is further proof of the pandemic’s impact on students in the state,” said Dr. Carey Wright, state superintendent of education. “Mississippi’s kindergarten teachers are outstanding. Yearly, their hard work leads to significant gains for the state’s youngest students, and I anticipate seeing those gains when students are retested in spring 2022.”
11 comments:
Abysmal!!!!
Let's check out Dr. Wright's claims here about 'success'.
32% of the kids scored ready, and 85% of those are expected to be proficient in reading at the end of the 3rd grade.
So out of 32,000 kids, 8,700 of them should be able to read BY THE END OF the 3rd grade. Hell, when I went to school, without having had the opportunity to go to kindergarten, my whole class was reading by the end of the 1st grade.
“Don’t piss down my back and tell me it’s raining.”
"I anticipate as many as 27% of our high school graduate-scholars will pass bonehead English on their third or fourth attempt during their first year of post-secondary matriculation."
https://www.facebook.com/groups/FireCareyWright
Y’all blaming Carey Wright for a kids scores testing what they know before they start school? This one is on the parents.
@7:27am - Of course they are, the parents are products of our public schools and obviously not educated enough to make that simple deduction.
They need more money.
Fortunately the school system can blame all their failures on COVID-19 for the next two decades.
Weird. We were all reading by first grade. Even the dumb ones ! Only kids who went to pre school was the same ones who went to private school later.
I'd fire Carey Wright for her idiotic comments about kindergarten teachers being the best and how superbly involved they are yada yada...and then blaming this shit on covid.
However, the old woman knows those that could fire her will be swayed by her bullshit and it will, naturally, buy her more time until she is eventually PERS vested and can catch a northbound train.
Oh my, there go their full-ride scholarships to Stanford, Harvard, and Yale.
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