RESEARCH & EVALUATION

The Research and Evaluation Department develops and supports the evaluation and understanding of district educational programs. This is accomplished by developing the tools and maintaining the data needed by district personnel and the public to monitor the effectiveness of the schools and programs.

The responsibilities of our department include:

• Managing the administration of state-wide and system-wide testing programs in the Tacoma Public Schools
• Managing the approval process for requests to conduct individual or institutional research in Tacoma Public Schools
• Providing data and information to assist in the evaluation of programs being used in the district

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District Assessment Calendar

• 2007-2008 Assessment Calendar (upated 4/17/08)
• 2008-2009 Assessment Calendar (DRAFT 8/11/2008)

State Assessments

• Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL)
              Current Year: grade 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 & High School         
• WASL Score Tables (school, district and state)
              Current with previous years: grade 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 & High School; archived grade 4, 7 & High School
              Disaggregated: Elementary School , Middle School, High School; Archived: 4, 7, 10
• Washington Alternate Assessment System (WAAS)
• Washington Language Proficiency Test II (WLPT-II)
• Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS)
• Iowa Tests of Educational Development (ITED)
              Grade: 3, 6, 8, 9, 11
              Disaggregated: 3, 6, 9

• Washington State Report Card
              State Results
              Tacoma School District Results

Elementary Schools select one: Arlington Birney Blix Boze Browns Point Bryant Crescent Heights DeLong Downing Edison Fawcett Fern Hill Franklin Geiger Grant H. Stafford Jefferson Larchmont Lister Lowell Lyon Manitou Park Mann McCarver McKinley NE Tacoma Pt. Defiance Reed Roosevelt Sheridan Sherman Skyline Stafford Stanley Wainwright Washington-Hoyt Whitman Whittier

Middle Schools select one: Baker Gault Giaudrone Gray Hunt Jason Lee Mason McIlvaigh Meeker Stewart Truman

High Schools select one: Foss Lincoln Mt. Tahoma Oakland Stadium School of the Arts Wilson

• WASL Practice Tests           

  select one: Reading - Grade 3 Reading - Grade 5 Reading - Grade 6 Reading - Grade 8 Reading - High School Math - Grade 3 Math - Grade 5 Math - Grade 6 Math - Grade 8 Math - High School

District Assessments Achievement Improvement Monitoring System (AIMS) Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT) Degrees of Reading Power (DRP) Dynamic Indicators of Basic Literacy Skills (DIBELS) Math Basic Skills Assessment (MBSA) Reading Screening - Tacoma Screening Instrument (TSI) Words        2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06, 2006-07	National Assessments American College Testing Program (ACT) Advanced Placement Test (AP) National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Pre Scholastic Aptitude Test (PSAT) Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT)
Building Test Coordinators Information for Test Coordinators	Student Demographics Enrollment Free and Reduced Meals Student Mobility Demographic Summaries
District Research Research Request Procedures Survey Results

 

Staff Contacts
Pat Cummings Director, Research & Evaluation (253) 571-1280 pcummin@tacoma.k12.wa.us	Terry Easley Student Assessment Coordinator (253) 571-1193 teasley@tacoma.k12.wa.us	Thea Turnley Testing Secretary (253) 571-1190 tturnle@tacoma.k12.wa.us