{"id":15200,"date":"2017-03-23T20:38:09","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T05:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/?p=15200"},"modified":"2017-03-23T20:47:02","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T05:47:02","slug":"spring-testing-is-coming-up-march-28-april-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/spring-testing-is-coming-up-march-28-april-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring testing is coming up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The state of Alaska\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new standards-based assessment is referred to as <\/span><b>PEAKS <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Performance Evaluation for Alaska\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Schools).<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Grades 7, 8, 9, and 10 will be assessed in the areas of Language Arts and Math, and grades 8 and 10 will also be tested in Science. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Steller\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s main testing schedule:<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Week of April 4<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Grades 7 and 8<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">April 10<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Science grade 8<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Week of April 17<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: &nbsp; &nbsp; Grades 9 and 10<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">April 24<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Science grade 10<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Testing will start at <strong>8:30 every day<\/strong> and it is important that students arrive at school on time. The test is untimed. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Link to more information about PEAKS:<br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asdk12.org\/peaks\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/www.asdk12.org\/peaks\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tests tutorials:<br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asdk12.org\/media\/anchorage\/globalmedia\/documents\/comprehensiveassessment\/peaks\/PEAKSPracticeTestsQuickGuide.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/www.asdk12.org\/media\/anchorage\/globalmedia\/documents\/comprehensiveassessment\/peaks\/PEAKSPracticeTestsQuickGuide.pdf<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Practice tests:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Go to eDIRECT: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ak.drcedirect.com\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/ak.drcedirect.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Near the bottom of the home page, you see a link to view the public version of the Online Tools Training. Click on the link.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alternatively, you may go directly to the public version by using this URL:&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/wbte.drcedirect.com\/AK\/portals\/ak\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/wbte.drcedirect.com\/AK\/portals\/ak<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the new window, click on the words \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Online Tools Training\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Click on the content area you would like to practice, and then on the grade level.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The username and password to use are on the log in screen.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Steller staff appreciates student participation and parent support in making PEAKS a successful assessment. We have hired substitute teachers as test administrators to limit the impact on classroom instruction.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state of Alaska\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new standards-based assessment is referred to as PEAKS (Performance Evaluation for Alaska\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Schools). Grades 7, 8, 9, and 10 will be assessed in the areas of Language Arts and Math, and grades 8 and 10 will also be tested in Science. Steller\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s main testing schedule: Week of April 4th: &nbsp; &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15201,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15200\/revisions\/15201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}