Advanced Literacy
iSTEEP Receives Top Rating and Awarded Tier 1 Status
We are pleased to announce that an independent review of assessments was conducted by the Louisiana Department of Education who recognized the iSTEEP Advanced Literacy Assessment as a Tier 1 status indicating the assessment was awarded the best possible score for "all indicators of superior quality."
Advanced Literacy Assessment
- Includes both literature and informational passages.
- Literature Worth Reading from Shakespeare, Tolstoy, and other masters.
- Informational text in a variety of areas such biography, history, science, American government.
- Standards Aligned.
- Staircase of Increasing Complexity.
- Quantitative and Qualitative Evaluation of Each Text.
- Each text evaluated using 3 indicators of text complexity
- Rigorous text based questions requiring students to read and think about the text.
- Texts are 50% literature and 50% informational.
Smart Cloze
- Computer based assessment that includes not only comprehension but also vocabulary, language, grammar, and usage.
- Quick and efficient check on student progress toward ELA standards.
Advanced Numeracy
Elementary Super Standards*
- Counting and Cardinality
- Operations and Algebraic Thinking
- Number & Operations in Base Ten
- Number & Operations - Fractions
- Measurement & Data
Middle School Super Standards*
- Ratios and Proportional Relationships
- The Number System
- Expressions & Equations
High School Super Standards*
- Seeing Structure in Expressions
- Arithmetic with Polynomials & Rational Expressions
- Creating Equations*
- Reasoning with Equations and Inequalities
- Functions
High School: Algebra
- Introduction
- Seeing Structure in Expressions
- Arithmetic with Polynomials and Rational expressions
- Creating Equations*
- Reasoning with Equations and Inequalities
- High School: Functions
*Super standards, which are also referred to as the major work of the grade, are those standards which are important for the grade but also serve as a foundation for skills in subsequent grades.
Uses of Standards Based Assessments
- Screening and Benchmarking to know if your students are ready for standards-based State Assessments such as PARRC and Smarter-Balanced
- Helps with transition to standards from other types of assessments
If Students are Not Ready, STEEP helps with getting them ready
- Student diagnostics
- Intervention Recommendations
- Reporting
- Progress Monitoring