Missouri Assessment Program (MAP)

It is that time of year again. The Missouri Assessment Program assesses students’ progress toward mastery of the Show-Me Standards which are the educational standards in Missouri. The Missouri Assessment Program includes assessments in the subject areas of communication arts (grades 3-8), mathematics (grades 3-8), and science (grades 5 and 8).

The grade-level assessments use three different types of questions or items:

*Multiple choice items are composed of selected response questions developed specifically for Missouri/or the survey portion of TerraNova, a nationally normed test.

*Constructed response items require students to supply an appropriate response rather than making a selection from a list of choices.

*Performance events are longer, more demanding tasks requiring students to work through problems, experiments, arguments, or extended pieces of writing.

You can find more information at this link:
http://www.pppctr.org/pages/uploaded_files/MAP%202008%20-%20FINAL%20%283%29.pdf

Honesty - Cats Have Character!

For March Bloomfield Elementary School is promoting honesty and successful test taking skills. Parents and staff can go to the newsletter links to access the March newsletter with ideas to help our students to be truthful and sincere. Parents and staff are also encouraged to help our students apply self-management skills needed for educational achievement as well as preparing for achievement testing at the end of March and beginning of April.