Students in grades 4-9 and 12 should have received an email to their K12 school email today with a link to the new student assessment video score reports designed to make it easier to understand annual assessment data.
The individual student video reports are customized for each student who took the West Virginia General Summative Assessment (WVGSA) in Grades 3-8, and for each Grade 11 student who took the SAT School Day in spring 2021.
Each year after a student takes the WVGSA and the SAT School Day, their family receives a printed report detailing performance on the exam along with a list of data sets that may be difficult to understand. The video reports provide information about the child’s academic performance on the exams and resources that pinpoint gaps in learning. This empowers families with solutions to address their children’s academic challenges.
“We are very excited about these new student assessment video score reports,” State Superintendent of Schools W. Clayton Burch said. “The printed data families receive can be intimidating, difficult to understand, and eventually lead to frustration if scores reflect learning deficits. However, we believe students and parents will find these video reports informative, engaging, and an important building block of a successful academic journey.”
The reports present students’ assessment results in a video format designed to complement the printed score report students received earlier in the school year. The WVGSA video reports provide a visual representation of each student’s performance, including a comparison of the student’s scores in each content area to previous year’s scores, as well as challenging areas the student may have based on the scores. The video also shows how the student’s scores compare to those of other students in the state, district, and school.
The SAT School Day video reports also show how students’ scores compare to average scores in the state, district, and school, and includes an explanation of the difference between the College Board’s college- and career-readiness benchmarks and the state’s Grade 11 achievement levels set by a panel of West Virginia educators.
Each video report is unique to each student based on his or her spring 2021 assessment results. Again, students should have received the secure link in the school K12 email account. Students and families may access the videos and supporting resources by clicking the link in the email and logging in.
“Although we are piloting this year’s distribution of the new video reports now, we plan to have the video reports released next year at the same time as the printed score reports,” Superintendent Burch said.
The WVGSA video reports include links to the new West Virginia Student Progress Explorer website complete with resources and suggested next steps for students and families to address any challenging areas identified in the results.
“We hope families take the opportunity to view the video reports and discuss the results with their students and their students’ teachers,” Superintendent Burch said. “The reports present the perfect opportunity to connect to children’s learning and to promote further conversations with educators.”
The WVDE encourages students and their families to provide feedback on the new video score reports to help make improvements on future reports.