September 10, 2018
Dear
Parents/Guardians of Grade 3 Students:
Important
Information: Grade 3 Student Learning Assessment
After three years of piloting the Grade 3 Student Learning
Assessment (SLA), in June of 2017 Alberta Education announced that Grade 3 SLA
to support student learning will be available to
teachers as a tool to use at their discretion. I have decided to use this tool with my Grade
3 class this year.
The
SLAs have four possible components:
§ Literacy
§ Assessments completed on a computer
§ Written performance tasks
§ Numeracy
§ Assessments completed on a computer
§ Written performance tasks
The
primary purpose of assessment is to improve student learning. SLAs are one of
many formative assessment tools. They
give teachers valuable information about each student’s learning which in turns
helps them to address individual student learning needs throughout the year.
You may access a report of your child’s results through me. Interpretation of results
is best accomplished through conversation between the parent/guardian, student
and teacher. I will share the assessments with you during Parent-Teacher
Conferences.
This
year, teachers may administer and re-administer SLA components at any time
until the end of June 2019. I have set
aside September 11 - 19 for students to complete the assessments.
For
answers to commonly asked questions about SLAs, visit the Alberta Education SLA website
at https://education.alberta.ca/department/ipr/slas/
for more information. Attached to this
letter is Alberta Education’s Grade 3 SLA
Quick Facts for Parents/Guardians for your information. To become familiar with the
types and interactivity of the questions completed on a computer in the Grade 3
SLA, students can try out the practice questions publicly available in the SLA Application.
Released questions from previous years are also available in the SLA Application, will allow students to become
familiarized with examples of content and question types.
You
are welcome to contact me at any time to discuss your child’s learning.
Sincerely,
Rich
Larson
Grade
3/4 Teacher
e | relarson@cbe.ab.ca
