CHARLESTON, W.Va. –Parents and students will now have a new way to view their summative assessment scores.
The WV Department of Education was presented the new View My Assessment Portal at their meeting on Wednesday. According to WVDE Director of Assessment Vaughn Rhudy they are planning on launching the portal this spring for grades 3-8. The summative testing window is April 7-May 23, however separate counties will pick when they want to test.
Rhudy said before the portal students and parents were having to wait several months before they were given paper copies of the test scores, that were either sent by mail, given to the student, or to the parents at parent/teacher conferences.
“Students and parents had to wait until the next school year, before they would know how their student did on the tests, unless they went into the school and said that they wanted to have a conference,” Rhudy said.
Counties, schools, and parents will still be able to print off the paper copies if they want after June 30th.
In order to access the portal students will have to enter their date-of-birth, their first name, and their six-character unique code.
Once there on the portal, if their test scores are available, they should see a notice at the top of the screen.
“When new scores show up in the system, they’ll be a little notice at the top so when the parents and students’ login they’ll be able to know that there are new scores appearing here,” he said.
The home page will allow parents to see a general overview of how their child did on each test. The most recent test that a child has taken will be the first score that they see.
“And they can see their scores right away, how the student scored on a science test,” Rhudy said. “But they can also see what achievement level the student fell in.”
He said that math and science scores should be made available with 24-hours of taking those tests.
However, he said the English/language arts scoring will be a little different.
“The overall English/language arts score is combined from the performance on the English/language arts reading test and the English/language writing tests, so both of those tests have to be completed and scored before their ELA scores will show up,” he said.
Rhudy said that something else that could delay ELA scores if the writing tests are routed to be hand-scored.
Parents will also be able to click on each subject to see a more detail list of each score.
They’ll also be an additional button where they can view the scores in even more detail, giving the parent more insight on how their student did.
“We’ve got categories results, progress, Lexile measure and resources to help your child,” Rhudy said.
The categories will give them a breakdown on how they did in each category for each test, progress will show how much progress the student has made since the last three tests he has taken, the Lexile measure shows them the child ability to read, do math and science.