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Let's take a more detailed look at one of the most important sections of your ULTRASCORE API AYP Score Improvement Study ...

The ULTRASCORE Intelligent Remediation Lists

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We apply rigorous and exhaustive computer analysis to the CST cluster scores and demographics of every one of your students. We then find the 15%-20% of your school’s students who can truly benefit from remediation and who can simultaneously make your API and AYP scores soar. As an alternative, we can structure our study around any other strategic group you specify --- or even your entire school.  Our goal is to choose just the right students, and just the right number of students, to match your resources and meet your goals . 

These are the only students you need to work with. These are the students who have the ability to skyrocket your school’s scores!!!    You will be helping every one of these students to meet his educational and life goals while making your school's targets.
 

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For each selected student, we develop a proprietary individual learning profile based upon the student's learning style, personal environment, learning environment, and scoring strand profile.  We use the individual learning profile to select the correct remediation standards for each selected student.  (To learn more about ULTRASCORE History and Methodology, including a discussion on our proprietary individual student learning profile, click here .)
 

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We then individually produce your ULTRASCORE Intelligent Remediation Lists showing you exactly which students need to improve in exactly which California Content Standards to give your school a maximum API AYP gain according to the actual API AYP scoring rules.  The lists are supplied to you in paper format and also in database/spreadsheet computer formats for easy tracking.
 

What's the Overall Goal of the Remediation Lists?
The goal is to provide you with a unified system that saves you 98% of your time!!  We give you the right 15% of your students to remediate.  For those students, we give you the 25% of standards on which to remediate based on their needs and the exact standards California deems to be important.  We show you which standards will be tested, in which proportions, as released by the test vender.  We show you actual previous test questions for those standards.  You get to teach efficiently.  Students learn efficiently to meet their academic and life goals.

Your school will receive two levels of ULTRASCORE Intelligent Remediation Lists

  1. The major-subject-area remediation list shows which students need help in which of the major subject areas. The purpose of this list is to help you develop a general plan and allocate resources. Click here to see a sample page from our Major Subject Area Remediation List.  
     

    What the Major-Subject List Shows You
    Notice that not all students require remediation in all subjects.  Student Vanessa Cota is listed as needing remediation in Language and Math.


     

  2. The subject-specific remediation lists show more precisely where the students need help. Separate subject-specific student remediation lists are prepared for ELA and Math.  For every student marked as needing help in a subject on the major-subject-area student remediation list above, the subject-specific student remediation list shows the California Content Standard in which the student needs help.  Click here to see the subject-specific student remediation list for Math. 


     

    What the Math List Shows You

    Notice that student "Vanessa Cota" is listed as needing remediation in only 10 of the 55 California Math Content Standards for Grade 4.  To remediate Vanessa Cota for maximum school gain on API and AYP --- while also improving all academic outcomes for her --- use any materials aligned to the California Content Standards (such as any currently adopted textbook) and work on the listed standards ONLY.  Notice, for example, that the student is listed as needing remediation in standard N1.3 .

     

    We include actual questions from the STAR TEST
    From the Sample Questions file provided*, you will find an actual question for standard N1.3 that has appeared on previous STAR tests.   Vanessa Cota needs to know how to answer the following type of question in order to  help your entire school meet its API and AYP targets:

    What is 38,467,293 rounded to the nearest ten-thousand:

    A)  38,000,000
    B)  38,500,000
    C)  38,470,000
    D)  38,468,000


     

    Two Special Notes for Middle Schools & High Schools
    1. Your remediation lists will have the standards for the exact math course in which each student is enrolled.  A 9th-grader taking Algebra 1 will have the standards for the Algebra 1 CST.  An 11-th grader taking Geometry will have the standards for the Geometry CST.
       
    2. Since your AYP proficiency is based upon CAHSEE proficiency for grade 10, we will analyze your CASHEE results separately, and you will receive a separate set of remediation lists based upon the CAHSEE standards.

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