Florida Kindergarten Readiness Test Training for Private Schools – FAIR-FS K Fall 2014

1. Florida Kindergarten Readiness Test Training for Private Schools – FAIR-FS K Fall 2014 Colleen Risner

2. What is FLKRS? Components • FAIR-FS K • Administered via computer • Need device with external mouse • Letter Sounds • Phonological Awareness • Vocabulary Pairs • Following Directions • Listening Comprehension • Sentence Comprehension

3. What is FLKRS? Components • Work Sampling System (WSS) • Observational Tool • Five Domains • Personal and Social Development • Language and Literacy • Mathematical Thinking • Scientific Thinking • Physical Development, Health, and Safety • 45 Skills observed during classroom activities

4. Assessment Schedule • Send Parent Letters Home • Letters located in PMRN • Send during first week of school (or ASAP thereafter as become available) • English, Spanish, Haitian-Creole • WSS Observations (Days 1 – 30) • Recorded on Individual Student Developmental Checklist or on Classroom Roster, transferred into PMRN • FAIR-FS K (Days 1 - 30) • Administered one-on-one directly through PMRN

5. Who to Test • All public school kindergarten students who enter within the first 30 days of school except for retained students • Private School kindergarten students who attended a VPK program • Some ESE students with Potentially Limiting Physical Conditions may not be able to be assessed but every student should be given the opportunity to participate • Survey 8 is used to generate students in PMRN for Public Schools. Private Schools will hand-enroll all students into PMRN. • Survey 8 uploads begin August 20, will be updated on Wednesdays • Students and teachers should be available in PMRN on August 25

6. Responsibilities • School Principal • Confirm access to DOE Single Sign On for all Staff • Register School and Reading Coach as PMRN Manager • Enter school schedule into PMRN • Reading Coach/PMRN Manager • Verify/Approve Access for Teachers • Add or Remove Users • Verify Students/Create Classes • Record Coach’s Log • Train Teachers/Test Administrators • Access Score Reports, utilize for guiding instruction

7. Responsibilities • School Coordinator • Ensure all test administrators are trained on FLKRS and PMRN • Ensure test administrators have access to the PMRN • Distribute FLKRS materials to test administrators • Monitor the testing window to ensure test administrators record results in PMRN by Day 30. WSS won’t be available after Day 30. • Test Administrators • Screen kindergarteners • Record student observations for the WSS benchmarks in the PMRN system using K-2 EST • Share student results with parents during conferences, etc.

8. New PMRN Addresses • www.fldoe.org/sso (DOE Single Sign On – for public schools) • http://www.justreadflorida.com/pmrnfair-fs/pmrn.asp Private Schools will register for PMRN here (DOE’s PMRN Information Webpage) • https://pmrn.fldoe.org (Private schools use to access PMRN once registered)

9. New Service Center Information • Florida Department of Education (FLDOE) Integrated Education Network Service Center • Provide support via the PMRN v4, K-2 AIR, 3-12 WAM, and FAIR-FS • Operational Hours • Monday – Friday • 6:00 AM – 7:30 PM ET • Contact via Phone or E-mail • 855-814-2876 • ienhelp@fldoe.org

10. Administering FAIR-FS K

11. Frequently Asked Questions

12. Accessing FAIR-FS K for FLKRS • Accessing FLKRS Administration • Accessed by Reading Level Users • Teacher must have Kindergarten class assigned • FLKRS administration is completed via • Reading Level FLKRS Data Entry page • K-2 AIR for FAIR-FS Screening tasks

13. Accessing FLKRS – Sign In • Upon Sign In, the Reading Teacher will • access the PMRN or K-2 through the PMRN portal • Click the PMRN Admin Panel or K-2 button

14. K-2 AIRAccess and Download • For offline administration – download to each device used for assessing students • Public Schools sign in via SSO Portal • Private Schools sign in via https://pmrn.fldoe.org • Click K-2 button

15. K-2 AIRAccess and Download • K-2 AIR Installation Instructions

16. K-2 AIRAccess and Download • K-2 AIR Download Options • Windows SSO (Public) • Windows Non-SSO(Private) • Click link to install • Mac SSO • Mac Non-SSO

17. K-2 AIRAccess and Download • Computer Administrative Privileges Needed • Click Install Now to install K-2 AIR • Adobe AIR Software Installation needed if not already on your computer • Follow installation wizard instructions

18. FAIR-FS K Flow of Tasks Alphabetics Phonological Awareness Letter Sounds Used for VPK Provider Rating Oral Language Vocabulary Pairs Following Directions Comprehension Listening Comprehension Sentence Comprehension

19. FAIR-FS K Screening Tasks • All directions, practice items, and items delivered via audio file on computer • Each task computer-adaptive • Reduces administration time and frustration by only administering items targeted to individual student’s ability level • Total administration time for the screening will be approximately 30 minutes, depending on grade level • Screening can be administered over several sessions if needed • If a task is started, ensure that task is completed before ending the session

20. FAIR-FS K Screening Tasks Student and Teacher Task: Both the assessor and student see the screen, but onlythe teacher uses the mouse (e.g. LS) or Student Task: Both see the screen, but the student uses the mouse (e.g. FD) Teacher Task: Only the assessor sees the screen and uses the mouse (e.g. PA) Screening tasks are administered 1-on-1 and fall into 3 types:

21. Screen Elements: Submit Button • For Letter Sounds, the teacher will mark correct/incorrect responses by clicking the arrow at bottom right-hand corner of the screen • To indicate a correct response, the teacher will click the top half of the arrow • To indicate an incorrect response, the teacher will click the bottom halfof the arrow • Clicking a second time on the same part of the arrow will confirm/submit the response and advance to the next item • To change the response, click the opposite side of the area • Click again to confirm the response

22. Screen Elements: Submit Button • For all tasks other than Letter Sounds, it does not matter where the arrow is clicked. Since the computer records the response, either based on the tester’s input (Phonological Awareness) or the student’s input (Following Directions, Vocabulary Pairs, Sentence Comprehension), the split arrow functionality is not activated. • The arrow looks the same, so that students are minimally aware of the tasks when their performance is being scored in front of them by the teacher. • Answers for these tasks are submitted after only one click. • There is no back button. Ensure that the student’s final answer is chosen before clicking the arrow.

23. Screen Elements: Repeat Button • To repeat audio instructions, click on the replay button in the lower left hand corner • Type the word code PLAY (or play) into the replay prompt box • Audio for each item may only be repeated once • If the student asks for the audio to be repeated again, ask them to try and give their best answer and then move on

24. Screen Elements: Reset Button • For some tasks, students may want to change their answer before submitting (Following Directions or Vocabulary Pairs) • To reset the page to the original screen, the students can click on the “X” button in the lower left hand corner and it will reset the screen elements

25. Letter Sounds • Student sees both uppercase and lowercase letters and pronounces sound (consonant, short vowel sound, common consonant digraph) • Each student will respond to between 5 and 29 sounds • Teacher marks correct/incorrect using arrow

26. Letter Sounds

27. Phonological Awareness • Student hears an audio file pronounce a word that has been broken into parts/phonemes • Teacher marks correct/incorrect

28. Phonological Awareness

29. Vocabulary Pairs • Requires students to match words that are semantically related • Student hears words pronounced and clicks the two words that go together

30. Vocabulary Pairs Audio: “Listen carefully as I name each one: blue, triangle, yellow. Which two go together best?”

31. Following Directions • Student hears a sentence with directions (may be single or multi-step) and responds by selecting or moving objects on the screen

32. Following Directions Audio: “Click on the book, then click on the plane.”

33. Comprehension • This set of tasks is used to help develop a full student profile beyond measures in the screening to guide instruction aligned to LAFS • Tasks include Listening and Sentence Comprehension • The Listening comprehension task consists of a passage read by the teacher from the computer screen and five questions read to the student

34. Listening Comprehension • Passages are informational and narrative • Five comprehension questions per passage (three explicit and two inferential)

35. Listening Comprehension

36. Sentence Comprehension • Student hears a sentence and clicks the one picture (out of four) that best fits the sentence

37. Sentence Comprehension Audio: “Click on: The bird is flying toward the nest.”

38. FAIR-FS K Scoring and Reporting

39. K-2 Accessing Reports • PMRN v4 Reports available • School Reports (School Level) • School Report • School Missing Score Report • Assessment Calendar • Edit School Registration function • Teacher Report (School, Reading, Resource Level) • Class Report (School, Reading, Resource Level) • Student Report (School, Reading, Resource Level)

40. K-2 Accessing ReportsSchool Level • School Level Users • Sign In • Click the tab of the Report Level you wish to view • School Reports • Reading Class Reports • Teacher Reports • Student Reports • Click the linked name of the Report

41. K-2 Accessing ReportsReading, Resource Level • Reading and Resource Level Users • Sign In • Click the tab of the Report Level you wish to view • Student Reports • Class Reports • Teacher Reports • Click the linked name of the Report

42. Score Reports • Detailed reports for teachers and parents • Includes profile of student scores • Graphs to show ability scores in relation to grade level performance • Screening tasks: • Ability scores • Percentile ranks • Probability of Literacy Success (PLS)

43. Probability of Literacy Success (PLS) • Score represents the likelihood that a student will receive a passing score on the end-of-year outcome measure • “Passing score” is based on student’s ability to reach a score of 40% on SESAT or SAT10. This will not predict success on state FSAs or SBAs, therefore our public schools will not use PLS score.

44. Ability Scores • Scores represent an estimate of ability in a specific skill and reflects true change over time as ability increases or decreases • Covers a range of ability from Kindergarten to grade 2 • Scores range from 200 – 800 (standard deviation of 100) • Based upon middle of year assessments of norming group • Indicates degree of growth for each student

45. Percentile Ranks • Score is used to rank one student’s performance in relation to a particular group of other students • Ranges from 1 – 99 (25th through 75th percentile represents the expected scoring range) • Based on a representative sample of Florida students Kindergarten student with a percentile rank of 55 performed better than 55% of other Kindergarten students in Florida

46. Score Types for Computer-Adaptive Tasks

47. Screening Report Example PLS = 0.65 WR = Word Reading VP = Vocabulary Pairs FD = Following Directions SC = Sentence Comprehension • Generally, a skill should be targeted for instruction when scoring below the 30th percentile • The lower bars represent skills that are relative weaknesses for a student and higher bar indicate relative strengths

48. Communicating with Parents • Computer-generated parent resource letters will be available • Letters will contain information on strength and weaknesses and skills targeted for instruction • Letter will also include resources on strengthening reading skills assessed in FAIR-FS

49. Contact Information Colleen Risner 407-320-0270 Colleen_Risner@scps.k12.fl.us Shawn Harrold 407-320-0193 Shawn_Harrold@scps.k12.fl.us