State Assessment
Wahoo Public Schools Assessment Brochure
Please see the linked documents for our Wahoo Public Schools Assessment Brochure and Assessment Calendar. These documents have been created to outline the various assessments/screeners being conducted at our elementary, middle school and high school buildings and are important in meeting the requirements of Board Policies 5015 and 5018.
Every two years, as a part of the required Accreditation process under Rule 10, we collect additional information about each of our school buildings in the form of a survey from families, staff and students (3rd - 12th). This information will be requested during the month of October in the current school year. An email providing all of the questions being asked on these surveys will be sent out to disctrict families on September 28th.
We hope that providing such information to you in this format will increase transparency with regards to our current assessment system. This document is also being emailed to all district families and copies will be available in each of the building offices.
If you have questions about anything happening within Wahoo Public Schools, please don't hesitate to reach out to your student's classroom teacher or to your building principal.
WPS Assessment Brochure 2023-2024.pdfNebraska Student-Centered Assessment System
The Nebraska Student-Centered Assessment System (NSCAS), pronounced “en-skass,” is a new statewide assessment system that embodies Nebraska’s holistic view of students and helps them prepare for success in postsecondary education, career, and civic life. It uses multiple measures throughout the year to provide educators and decision makers at all levels with the insights they need to support student learning (NDE, 2019).
Formative - Educator-created tests. Create and administer classroom and district-wide assessments with TestWiz and the Navigate Item Bank™
Interim - Adaptive, grade-level independent MAP Growth helps educators know what students are ready to learn next and measures growth over time.
Summative - Adaptive, on-grade-level measure of academic proficiency relative to Nebraska’s academic standards.
NSCAS ELA (grades 3-8)
NSCAS Math (grades 3-8)
NSCAS Science (grades 5 and 8)
MAP-Growth-Fact-Sheet.pdfNWEA MAP Growth (grades 1st - 10th)
PreACT_info.pdfPre-ACT
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