Waterford Memorial School Grades 3-6 MEA Data March 2009

The Maine Educational Assessment (MEA) is the State's measure of student progress in achieving the State standards known as Learning Results, adopted by the Maine Legislature in 1997. The Learning Results established goals for what all students should know and be able to do at certain times in their school careers and are the basis for Grade Level Expectations, which describe the assessment standards for each grade.  The MEA is administered to students in all grades 3 through 8 to meet State assessment requirements and the requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

The March 2009 MEA Summary Reports contain the results of student achievement in reading and mathematics at all grades and science and technology at grades 4 and 8. The reports also contain baseline status in writing at grades 5 and 8.

MEA results reflect scores based on test questions that are taken in common by the approximately 15,000 students in each grade level. Students' scores in each content area are based on answers to a combination of multiple-choice questions and questions that require students to construct an answer. The writing reports provide information on a student's ability to respond to a prompt measuring narrative writing at grade 5 and persuasive/argumentative writing at grade 8. More information about the design of the MEA is available at www.maine.gov/education/mea/index.htm.