Taking the Test
This is an accommodation/accessibility feature which allows children to test in groups of no more than 10 students.
What is small group?
This is the first year that RICAS was administered in grades 3-8.
When is 2018?
1.98%
What was Fogarty's 2021 math proficiency on RICAS?
This is the street which our buses and parents drop off children each morning.
What is Sayles Street?
This accommodation helps students by reading text and answers out loud as long as this does not affect the skill being assessed.
What is text to speech?
This is what RICAS stands for.
What is the Rhode Island Comprehensive Assessment System?
6.32%
What was Fogarty's 2021 ELA proficiency level on RICAS?
This accommodation is appropriate for a student with a physical disability that severely limits or prevents the student's motor process of writing, typing, or recording responses during instruction and assessment.
What is Scribing?
Accessibility features such as frequent breaks, 1:1 test administration, and preferred seating can be assigned to any student, at this person or their designees' discretion.
Who is the principal?
These are the set of standards RICAS is closely aligned to.
What are the Common Core State Standards? (CCSS)
This was the year Fogarty was the ONLY Providence school taken out of transformation status with the state, due to increased ELA and Math scores on RICAS, including a high rate of growth for ELLs.
What was 2019?
This plan outlines proper materials distribution, tracking, collection, and storage after each day of testing; How will students who need extra time transition; Policies for breaks, bathroom
What is a Security Plan?
This accommodation is often provided for students with fine motor limitations, visual impairments, or learning disabilities; as well as to students who continue to work productively at their own pace.
What is extended time?
These are the 4 performance levels used to describe how well students meet the expectations for their grade level.
What are Not Meeting Expectations, Partially Meeting Expectations, Meeting Expectations, and Exceeding Expectations?
This afforded Fogarty the opportunity to implement 7 autonomies by providing funding in areas such as staff capacity-building, teacher leadership opportunities, greater supports for ELLs, a RICAS ramp up after school program, and other initiatives.
What is the Empowerment Grant?
These blocks of assessment time are created in Pearson Access Next, for students who are testing at the same time and in the same location, and must be sequential.
What are Sessions?
This is a state of quiet, orderly calm in a classroom with signs on doors indicating that Testing is currently occurring and to not enter/disrupts.
What is "Testing Conditions?"
This is the online platform used to manage test administration tasks such as student registrations, user accounts, and monitoring online testing.
What is PearsonAccess Next?
This is our current RIDE accountabilty rating, based on our 2019 RICAS data.
What is 2 Stars?
Having just turned 30, this Fogarty leader has been working to revamp MTSS, supports teachers with ARC implementation, and battles dismissal issues on a daily basis with her good friends from Providence PD.
Who is Samantha Stringfellow?