C-123 joins effort to potentially replace MAP testing
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CONCEPTION JUNCTION, Mo.— The Jefferson C-123 Board of Education decided to join a pilot program that could eventually replace the MAP testing.
Superintendent Tim Jermain presented the idea to the board and explained how the MOAP (Missouri Assessment Partnership) program differed from the traditional testing.
“The tests are adapted so they meet the students level, so you can monitor progress,” Jermain said.
While MAP testing is done at the end of the year in order to assess students on a statewide level and grade the school in which they are learning, the MOAP program would use several testing sessions to determine how students are progressing on an individual level.
The MOAP program would be possible under the, Every Student Succeeds Act, which allows partnerships to apply for a federal waiver to replace and enhance established state testing. At the present, the partnership is in need of more data from schools like Jefferson before they are able to apply for this waver.
“We will still give the state assessments,” Jermain said. “But after a few years of gathering student data, the idea would be for the schools in this pilot program to reapply for the waver for relief of having to give the state MAP test.”
The Board of Education unanimously approved to join this partnership, which represents 400,000 students across several districts.
In other news
- The board awarded five probationary teachers’ contracts and three indefinite contracts for the next school year.
- The board renewed high school principal Charley Burch’s contract and plans to determine his salary for next year soon.
- The board discussed financing a secure, front door entrance and better parking lot to add on to the nearly finished gym construction plan.
- The board plans to meet again at 5:30 p.m. on March 21.
