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Important Information:

Fast Bridge Testing will occur Tuesday (9/9) and Wednesday (9/10) this week.

From Janet McClarence

Director of Curriculum and Instruction:

Frankfort School District 157-C currently uses a local assessment called Fast Bridge. Fast Bridge is a student benchmarking assessment that is administered to students in grades 1st through 8th grade and measures growth in reading and math. The Reading and Math assessments are called “adaptive” assessments. Adaptive assessments are computer-based, and the items given will vary depending on the students’ previous responses therefore this assessment is referred to as a screener and something that students cannot "study" for. 

The district screening process, often referred to as benchmarking, occurs three times per year (fall, winter, and spring). By administering benchmark assessments to every student, we can determine the need for student differentiation, intervention, or program placement. In addition, this information, along with classroom performance, is used by each grade level team to guide instructional practices and provide another measure of student progress to share with parents.   

The Individual Benchmark report provides parents with their child’s scale score and the band in which that score falls. There are 4 bands: College Pathway, Low Risk, Some Risk, High Risk. The report also shows a student’s percentile rank. The school and district percentile ranks are a local ranking with just our 157-C students in the norming population whereas the national percentile ranking shows where your child ranks in comparison to all students in the same grade level that took this Fast Bridge assessment. Each benchmarking period a new data point will be added to the graph and shared with parents so student growth can be monitored.  

The Fast Bridge fall assessment window is September 8 through September 19 that each student in grades 1st through 8th will participate in. You can find your child’s testing day on the teacher webpage. You will receive an Individual Benchmark report on October 9. This report will be sent home with your child.