Parents will receive a letter the week of Oct. 9 containing their child's fall assessment results. Depending on each student's age/skill level, parents may receive results from the Measures of Academic Progress (MAP), ACCESS, PARCC and AIMSweb assessments. Assessments are important to ensure students are reaching learning targets. These tests are called summative assessments and provide raw data on how much of a certain subject or material students learned successfully over the course of a quarter, semester, school year or school career.
MAP: District 58 students take the MAP assessment three times per year. MAP tests students' proficiency and growth in Reading, Math and Language Usage (Language Usage is second grade and older). MAP results help teachers develop skill-based learning opportunities for children.
ACCESS: ACCESS is given to students who speak a second language at home and who do not qualify as English Language Proficient. ACCESS measures a student's English language understanding in the areas of speaking, listening, reading and writing.
PARCC: Students in grades 3-8 completed the state's PARCC assessment last March. PARCC has higher achievement standards and a different baseline from the ISAT, the assessment that it replaced in 2015. District 58 does not currently use PARCC scores to guide instructional placement.
AIMSweb: This assessment measures a student's reading health. All kindergarten through second grade students take this assessment. Students may exit from the assessment when they are in at least third grade and meet strong reading performance indicators.
Much of this information is available through our district student data portal, SQUIRREL.
Parents who have previously registered in SQUIRREL can simply navigate to dg58.info/squirrel and log in with their credentials.
In order to register for a SQUIRREL account, please navigate to dg58.us/register where you will enter your email address. The email address you enter must be an address you have given the school previously; if an error occurs, please contact your school secretary to determine whether that address is on file.
After you successfully enter an email address, the system will send you a registration link. Check your email inbox and click the link in the email. Here you will set a password for your account. After setting your password, you can now use your email and password to login to SQUIRREL at dg58.info/squirrel
Parents will receive more information regarding each assessment in next week’s letter. Parents may also view the District's Methods of Assessment webpage for more information.