YPP Information Steet - Granite School District

• Taking the assessment in every subject every week is the recommended best
practice, because it provides the most valid data. The YPP Reading Assessment
(2 ½ minutes) must be taken weekly.
• Students may work on YPP on classroom computers, mini-labs, and mobile labs
or in a computer lab setting. In schools that only have one computer lab, and
which do not participate in E-mints, 2 nd through 6 th grades may take math and
reading one week and language arts and reading the next. This is a school based
decision, which should be implemented consistently in the building.
WHERE:
• Students complete YPP at school; however teachers may access YPP reports at
home using this address: https://athome.yearlyprogresspro.com. This address is
for teacher use only and may not be given to students.
WHY:
• YPP has been approved by the Education Department’s National Student Progress
Monitoring commission and found to be research-based, valid and reliable and
is recommended as best instructional practice.
• YPP is a tool that can strengthen both teacher instruction and student
achievement.
• YPP can provide empirical evidence of student learning which can be used to
document response to interventions, measure value-added results (growth over
time) and to show growth for subgroups which may not achieve the benchmarks
set for adequate Yearly Progress as required under No Child Left Behind.
“Firm evidence shows that formative assessment is an essential component of
classroom work and that its development can raise standards of achievement…..”
“All these studies show that innovations that include strengthening the practice of
formative assessment produce significant and often substantial gains.”
Black and William, 1998
“Inside the Black Box: Raising Standards
through Classroom Assessment.”
Phi Delta Kappan, 80 (2), 139 – 148