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Verdugo Hills High School WASC/CDE Self-Study ReportD-3: To what extent does the school with the support of the District and thecommunity have an assessment and monitoring system to determinestudent progress toward the achievement of the academic standards and theexpected school-wide learning results?The VHHS assessment program measures student progress usingstandardized test outcomes, local standards-based assessments, CAHSEEresults, and CST results. Teachers, students, and community members areaware of the assessments, and as a result, adequate time is spent inpreparing to ensure the best performance of each student on these exams.In addition, Verdugo Hills High School offers Saturday sessions for CAHSEEtest preparation, dedicated CST preparation courses, support classes for APstudents, tutoring before, during and after school, and counselors call thehomes of the students to reiterate the need for every pupil to achieve.The dominant monitoring system in place is the CST and its results. Midtermand final report cards are issued with the support of the District. Alldepartments at VHHS design and implement their assessments to mirror thepacing plan of the District assessments and the CST.The departments ensure that all lessons are based on the state standards.The departments designed and implement chapter assessments, and thedata from those assessments are analyzed for teachers to identify strengths,weaknesses, and students needing intervention.MathematicsThe mathematics department has strengthened its curriculum throughcommon assessments in all subject areas, Algebra 1 through AP Calculus.Results are monitored, recorded, and reported to all members in thedepartment. Standards and the level of mastery are discussed after eachassessment in weekly meetings during lunch and valid methods to createimprovements are implemented. On every exam there are multiple choicequestions that relate to each standard being taught so that item analysisdata can be tracked. To ensure fairness and consistency a common gradingscale is utilized by everyone in the department. Common assessments and acommon grading scale ensure that students are prepared to successfullymatriculate to the next math course.In addition, the mathematics department offers differentiated instructionVerdugo Hills High School WASC Self-Study Page 152
Verdugo Hills High School WASC/CDE Self-Study Reportthrough math labs, courses designed to assist, re-teach concepts, and givesupport to students who need extra help. Lessons are personalized andmultiple strategies employed in addition to communication with the student’sregular math teacher.EnglishFormative and summative assessments include department created periodicassessments, common essays prompts, common projects, and text-basedstudy guides. These curricular maps accommodate students should theyneed to make schedule changes. This collaborative curricular approach alsoensures that students and teachers speak a common language whenapproaching texts and assessments. English Language Arts periodicassessments take place three times per course as required by LAUSD. Theseassessments were created by the department and reflect the state standardsmonitored in the District’s periodic assessments. The English Department iscurrently developing a strategy to collect and analyze the data generatedfrom these assessments to guide instruction.ScienceThe Science Department uses a variety of assessment strategies to evaluatestudent learning. Each discipline uses common periodic assessments whichare used to identify specific standards that need to be reviewed before CST.Teachers create their own tests and quizzes using questions from a commontest bank. Common laboratory, reports and projects are utilized by eachdiscipline. My Data is used to analyze CST tests in order to strengthen futureinstruction.Throughout the entire process of reviewing test scores and analyzing datathe Science Department continually improves the pedagogic process toenhance student learning.Social ScienceWithin the department teachers use projects, quizzes, essays, exams andperiodic assessments to assess students. The Social Studies department splitinto two groups, US History and World History to create periodicassessments that were appropriate to support the state standards as well asVerdugo Hills High School WASC Self-Study Page 153
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