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One of the districts that is using Kid Compass has a board policy that says, “any child reading below grade level at the end of first grade either attends summer school or is retained.” For the Director of Summer School, this task of identifying all the students who need either intervention is a time consuming and difficult task. To make a confident decision for each potential student, one should look at all students who are scoring below grade level at the end of the year. For further analysis, one should run assessment histories on each student to discover if the student has a pattern of below average assessment scores, or has fallen below level just recently. This knowledge could sway your decision between summer school or retention.

Analyzing assessment results is a simple process with the sort capabilities of Kid Compass.

• Click on the Reports button on www.kid-compassreading.com
• Click on the Assessment Results button
• Select Student Assessment Results
• Select (from the drop-down box) your name (Teacher), All Students (Student), the current year (School Year)
• Select (from the drop-down box) Latest Test (Test), the appropriate grade (Grade), Below Grade Level (Grade Level)
• Filter out special populations (depending on your board policy) by excluding students receiving services in Title 1, Special Education, Bilingual. (Include Regular Education population)
• Click the Get Reports button
• To open in Word and print this report, click the upper left (white) button Open Report. This will generate a report in Word for print/preview.

• To analyze further, generate an assessment history for each of these students.
• Click on the Reports button on www.kid-compassreading.com
• Click on the Assessment Results button
• Select Assessment History
• Select (from the drop-down box) your name (Teacher), student name (Student), All Years (School Year)
• Select (from the drop-down box) All Tests (Test), All Grades (Grade), Both Above and Below (Grade Level)
• Click the Get Reports button
• To open in Word and print this report, click the upper left (white) button Open Report. This will generate a report in Word for print/preview.