Important Notice Concerning the Grade 5 ISAT
Reading Results in 2005
Prior to the administration of the 2005 grade
5 reading test, passage 1 on the test was inadvertently used
in training workshops with teachers from around the state. This
security breach was not the fault of any school or district
in the state.
Because of this security breach, students' responses
to the extended-response item and multiple-choice items associated
with passage 1 were not used to calculate the 2005 grade 5 ISAT
reading results. In other words, the 2005 grade 5 ISAT reading
scores returned for individual students were based on fewer
test items than was originally planned. The 2005 grade 5 ISAT
reading results for students, schools, districts, and the state
were computed with the questions from the remaining three reading
passages on the grade 5 test, which included multiple-choice
questions and one other extended-response question.
Passage 1 and its associated items were dropped so that no student,
school, or district would be treated unfairly because of this
breach.
On the Individual Student Report (Chart C) you
will see a zero (0) printed in the Student Score box. This 0
is not a real score. No student received a score of
0 for this extended-response item.
On the ISAT School Roster, all students show a
score of 0 for reading passage 1. Despite the fact that zeroes
appear on the School Roster, no student received a score
of 0 for this extended-response item. In fact, all students
received no score for this item.
On ISAT School and District Performance Profile
reports, the section of Chart C that provides results for the
extended-response item for reading passage 1 shows 0% for all
score points
(0 - 4).
Because of computer programming constraints, it
was not possible to show blanks instead of zeroes on all of
these reports. We apologize for any confusion this may have
caused. If you have any questions, please call the Student Assessment
Division at 217/782-4823 or Pearson Educational Measurement
at 800/627-7990, ext. 814.
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