By Bethany Vickers
SILVERDALE--This past month our Raiders have been working hard, trying their best and putting their best work forward for their SBA testing. SBA or Smarter Balanced testing is our state’s standardized testing program. It is used to show what we know and how much we know through a Classroom Adaptive Test and a Performance Task on subjects such as math, english language arts, and for our eighth graders science. On the first day of testing, which for us this year was on Tuesdays, students had to report to their testing classrooms and take the Classroom Adaptive Test or CAT, which is a series of questions designed to gather information on what the students in each grade learned throughout the year. Day one of testing was on May 9th.The next day students were given a Performance Task to show how well they could gather and retain information on a certain topic chosen randomly. They then had to write about it or solve a series of math problems based on the topic. The science test for eighth graders went faster than expected. Students only had to take a Science CAT about the things they learned in Earth Science. “The science SBA was easier than I thought it would be; it was really short,” said 8th grader Kydn Dibert Over all our Raiders worked hard, breathed, and took it one problem at a time. Students were so good at testing and staying focused that the last day of testing finished early, giving us regular 3-6 periods. This also happened for our eighth graders during their science testing. Good Job Raiders!!! Comments are closed.
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