The Illinois State Board of Education this week released the aggregate scores for the 2017 Illinois Science Assessment, and Vermilion County schools rated all over the board.
The ISA was designed to reflect classroom experiences. The questions ask students to apply scientific knowledge and reasoning to real-world problems. This assessment pushes students to apply their knowledge in their responses, thus better preparing students for postsecondary and a career. The test is untimed, but designed to take approximately one hour. Each student’s score between 200 and 400 correlates to one of two performance levels: Proficient or Not Proficient.
Illinois’ standards incorporate the national Next Generation Science Standards.
The participating school in Vermilion County that had the highest percentage of students rated proficient was Bismarck-Henning Junior High, with a 72.3 percent mark. The county school with the lowest percentage was South View Upper Elementary School in Danville with 20 percent.
Twenty county school participated in the study, and results for them can be found at their website: www.isbe.net/ISA.
