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Former Elementary Principal, Bill Thompson, explains how to read the Terra Nova test results.

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I'm doing Thompson on the phone for principle of the ugliest campus at Westminster Christian Academy and I will share with you today some how to interpret your child's terranova results terranova is the test the Wii used and it's produced by CTB McGraw-Hill I've been chosen to do this I suppose for a couple reasons one how many Christian School administration of 40 years and two I have almost a doctor vegetational leadership so having worked with achievement test for those for years of service dog time helping parents understand the first thing I asked you to do is get out your child's terranova result is a blue sheep and there should be a Green Sheet get those two out and get a highlighter maybe cuz they're a couple of things I want to tell you that I lied the first thing I would do is turn to the back sheet  on the front sheet it says individual profile report and then in the wisest performer check which channel the backside and it says norm-referenced scores so I need to explain three kinds of scores to you the first is a norm-referenced score this is in comparison to other students who take the test and this gives you a percentile score the percentage for we're not saying when you trying to 1780 cuz he only scored 70% know this is your truck better than 70% of the people took the task and not as well as 30% who did  Total percentile score never to be interpreted like a percent is not an ABCD  awesome looking at a channels results in an honest and good results and I see something I'm concerned about but here's what I want you to do the other two the second kind of scroll want to talk to you man it's called to say nothing and I say nothing it's just manship between 1 and 9  and it's just another way of interpreting the same results so one is the lowest of the scores you can make the hottest and that just gives a quick reference to say when was good father my child support if I that's right in the middle he's average on that the score tonight in the top out the score of the one wishing to be concerned so on the back page norm-referenced scores please got the column that said National percentile and stanine and that's the time that I want you to look at it this time who is Gives You Channel your child's National percentile and stanine and that's what we're going to look at so I'm looking at a child's what's here probably not the one you're going to say but I see it 87% I'm in volcano that tells me that child did better than 80 percent of people took the test in less than 12 or 13 percentage I'm right next to the 87 this is something that tells me that that same score can be a seventh stanine  so from 1 to 9 it's a southern that's a good score that's a good sign score if I'm looking at other the same kind of language is used on all of the same kind of interpretation here's the 60th percentile in Social Chinese that's not a wonderful score , but yeah it's it's not a bad score either 60th percentile says Charlie better than 60% people took the social studies test and not as well as 40% and it's her staying on in this case is which is better than average for sure the average is 50th percentile nationally and Steiner  so most of most of our children will soar above 50%. and most will store stay nights at five six seven eight nine on the same page CSA on that just shows you your tongue map down in comparison to other children is it rains it's given and can I look and see how did my children score in the range again 50th percentile is right in the middle National  so that's all the scores float this is based on a curve and that curve is everybody in the nation starts out very low. play the bottom of the scale on the Middle Passage goes down again the scale and tells me very cheap play The Fairy come to in Reading in language arts in mathematics and science and social studies you will notice that we get more than just those pass cuz Westminster chooses to have some other tests to help us to discriminate and see how well children are doing in the even more specific areas so there's mathematics and there's mathematics computation Jeanette message composite and then there's just a math score the total score is the score of the tells us not an average you can't take maybe scores in the average them together they won't work percentile scores don't work that way but your child's total score is a result of the scores above it and it will tell you basically how your child's comparing National in this child's told stores is 63rd percentile she did better than 63 navigate Amherst a night at the 69 which is a very accepting stain  self lipstick back over on the other side I want explain one more kind of scale to you he's our Norm referenced and staying in school was that Norman Smith compared to other but on the front side these are based on performance on the objectives the chance so we're not comparing myself child anybody else would just comparing myself to the number of items on The Taste not a tooth make it hot like this time is the column that says National OPI National OPI what this is is it takes each part of the test  Bettendorf so many items that go together to make that particular store like under language I see sent UPS truck Center so many items that make that indicator up but they're taking those and stretching them if a child were taking Point test  what will you make vegetable what you made on this test so in that National Opie on time that's what we've got is there were a hundred points this child in Reading Pennsylvania gun understanding  79 appearance percentile I can a percent actually this time and numbers and then out here is a wonderful drawing a schedule that will help me to understand how to interpret those it says then hit the bottom how you interpret the black and black dance circle says my child absolutely Master this time ash tree bus Circle it's half-black and is my child reach moderate mastering that still okay low Ministry is a circle with nothing in it and in the moderate rangemaster is the little bar that spray that tells me this is the rain Christine should be if there were cheating moderate Mestre and you can figure out moderate mastry's a good score but it's not as high a student might be capable of making  so hear this child has scored in the range what's up moderate mastering in most every test there if you not here under mathematics number and number relations the score is below the modern running and she's got a circle that has nothing in it that tells me that her scores love it actually was a store 159 North if she taking a test with a hundred items on it 59 would have in her store which is a failing grade some of the years she shot the top at the same time operation concept she's got she's outside of the range of and she has an outstanding store maybe she didn't miss an item on that particular part of the test but she's done Berry black and circle  sup with that information front and back you probably have everything you need to know this listing subject is the different kinds of things that they were measuring so listen to mathematics there measuring number number relations capitation estimation operation Concepts measurement geometry and spatial sense  gas statistics and probability if you score if you channel in the lower Grace particular scored low there it's understandable Lewis Ironman series does not teach probability in statistics symbol of praise  patterns functions in algebra the last category and that will be more challenging for us to so one part I didn't mention before but it's the Bible says a very very important part of us it's on the grill cheap as opposed to the blue and white sheet  so it's not hard to interpret it tells you how many items how many points were possible then under your tongue rent and then what percent you try not correct but here's the fun part this child's store there are several different pasta it's for storing below base basic is basic knowledge environment I'm proficient mean to you knows great deal and it he shot to talk about the Bible measurements maybe one or two but this chance but which is very good I'm very proud where she stole some will be in that advanced level basic drawing her new Dawson School nice quotes basic level but hopefully below basic and that's the Bible results should be a blessing to you

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