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The other day a teacher invited me into her classroom to help her facilitate the first Focused Interim Assessment Block (FIAB) with her 3rd grade students. She asked me to teach her how to…<\/span><\/p>\n “Piece of cake!”, I said. While her students were out at recess, I took just a moment to show her how to log in to the CAASPP website and select a relevant FIAB to use. Once her students returned from recess, we gave each student a card with their name and SSID on it. Within just a few minutes all students were logged in and working on the FIAB.<\/span><\/p>\n About 30 minutes later, the first students began to finish the 12-question FIAB and the data popped into the teacher’s account a few moments after that. The teacher was amazed when the data revealed a few questions that only about 20% of the students answered correctly. We looked at the questions and immediately recognized that those questions were worded in a manner very UNLIKE how the math concepts were worded in the textbook.<\/span><\/p>\n Even though the teacher had taught the multiplication facts, the question on the FIAB was decidedly different from anything the teacher had taught\u2026even though it was the exact same content.<\/span><\/p>\n Another example was this problem. It is just a multiplication problem, but it was unlike anything she had taught.<\/span><\/p>\n For each of the next days, the teacher projected one of the most missed questions and used it as a warm-up before the day’s regular lesson.<\/span><\/p>\n She was grateful it is only December and she has five months to continue using all the available 3rd grade FIABs as powerful instructional tools in preparation for the CAASPP.<\/span><\/p>\n If you teach any grade 3 through 11, please consider asking your MCOE Math Team coordinator to show you how to use the FIABs with your students!<\/span><\/p>\n\n
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