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Executive Director
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Darin Kelberlau

NeSA Assessments


Beginning with the 2009-2010 school year all public schools in the state of Nebraska are required to administer the Nebraska State Assessments (NeSA). The first assessments to be given in the Spring of 2010 were the Reading assessments. These were given to students in grades 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 and in grade 11 at the high school and will continue to be given each year in the spring. In the spring of 2011 the NeSA mathematics assessments will also be given to students in the above grade levels and will become an annual assessment. Beginning with the 2011-2012 school year districts will also administer the NeSA science assessments to students in grades 5, 8 and 11. The concepts and objectives assessed with these assessments are aligned to the Nebraska State Standards for each of the curriculum areas. Districts also administer the Nebraska State Writing Test to all students in grades 4, 8 and 11.

The results of these state assessments are used to compile the District’s State Report Card which is published by the Nebraska Department of Education in October or November of each year. State Report Card information is available on the Nebraska Department of Education website http://www.education.ne.gov/ . The Nebraska Department of Education also uses these results to determine a district’s AYP status as required by the No Child Left Behind legislation.

These state assessments are only part of the information Fremont Public Schools uses to determine student academic achievement. Groups of teachers combine local objectives and expectations with the Nebraska State Standards to establish grade level and course objectives and to develop local Criterion Reference Tests and classroom formative assessments. Student performance data derived from these sources and the NeSA assessments are then analyzed to discover the academic strengths and weaknesses of students and of our curriculum and instruction models. We then use this information to develop school improvement plans and to make changes in our classroom instruction in an effort to increase student learning.