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2013 Schedule

2013 Senior Activities

2013 Incentives

2013 STAR Video 1

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Educating California’s students is a team effort. To fully participate on this team, parents and guardians as well as school staff and students need to know and understand the role of the Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Program in ensuring all students achieve California’s content standards in core subject areas. The tests in the Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Program are an important part of the state assessment system. These tests are administered each spring to measure how well students in California public schools are achieving state content standards. These achievement tests target English Language Arts and Mathematics in all grades tested. In addition, tests in Science and History/Social Science are given in selected grades.

Educating students is a team effort. Parents, guardians, students, schools, and communities benefit when there is a shared responsibility for learning. To fully participate as part of this team, parents and guardians should have a thorough understanding of the role the tests in the STAR Program play in making sure that all students achieve state content standards.

Who participates in the STAR Program?
All students in grades two through eleven in California public schools participate in the STAR Program each spring. This includes students with disabilities and English learners.

What are the tests in the STAR Program?

• The California Standards Tests (CSTs) measure the achievement of state content standards in English-language arts, mathematics, science, and history-social science.
• The California Alternate Performance Assessment (CAPA) was developed as an alternate assessment in English-language arts and mathematics for students who have signficant cognitive disabilities and cannot take the CSTs even with accommodations or modifications.
• The Aprenda, La prueba de logros en español, Tercera edición (Aprenda 3), is a nationally normreferenced achievement test of general academic knowledge in Spanish for Spanish-speaking English learners. (These tests are given in grades five through eleven in 2007.)

Does my student have to participate in the annual STAR Program testing?
Yes. All students must participate unless their parents or guardians have submitted written requests to exempt them from STAR Program testing (Education Code Section 60615). It is very important that all students take part in the STAR Program. Each school must have at least 95 percent of its students participate in statewide assessments in order to meet federal accountability requirements.