PowerUp and RAPID Questions

RAPID Question re: sample size used for the percentile scores.

RAPID technical manual, Chapter 5: Psychometric Development. Here is the relevant section from the manual:

"Students in grades kindergarten through twelve from multiple school districts throughout Florida participated in the linking study. Students completed RAPID tasks for their grade level, and their performance informed the estimation and evaluation of item parameters and student performance score distributions for each task and grade level. From this norming sample, a total of 44,780 students across the districts participated in these calibration and validation studies."

The Technical Manual contains a table in Chapter 5 that breaks down how many students from each grade were sampled for each of the RAPID tasks if you would like to more thoroughly explore that data.

Technical Manual for Rapid v4.0

NOTE: PowerUp is recommended for students with RAPID RSP scores under 70

? re: Resetting PowerUp Placement
If your students were given assistance during the PowerUp auto placement activities for Word Study and Grammar, you can reset students' placements in these two strands without impacting their Comprehension placement or their RAPID results. This process will need to be performed one student at a time. Here are the instructions to do so.

1) Ensure the students you need to edit placement for are not currently logged in to PowerUp. If they are, instruct them to log out.
2) Log in to myLexia with your school email address.
3) Click the Manage button on the left side of the page. Its icon looks like a flow chart.
4) Click the Students tab at the top of the page. Locate one of the students whose placement in Grammar and Word Study should be reset and click the pencil button to that student's right.
5) In the Edit Student window that appears, click Program at the top and select the option Edit Placement In Lexia PowerUp. You will see three Edit buttons appear. Click the first button to edit the Word Study placement.
6) From the Zone pulldown menu that appears, select the option Auto Placement and click Update. You will return to the Program tab. Follow the same steps for the Grammar strand. Once both Word Study and Grammar have been reset to the auto placement, click Save at the bottom of the page. Your student can now log back in to PowerUp and redo the auto placement for Word Study and Grammar. Repeat these steps as necessary for any other students.

Ideas for ways to assist in motivating students using PowerUp (ideas from Kathleen, 12/5/2018)

• Many schools use the streaks to help with motivation.  They can post the class streak leader, or have students keep a log of their own streaks.  
• Some classrooms try to emphasize units gained each week. Units are not connected to a level so we do not have to worry about publicizing the level the student is on and possibly embarrassing them.   
• Amira also developed this goal setting doc which can help students set goals for themselves.
• Teachers can be creative with how to reward or celebrate the students who meet their goals and/or are leading the class with streaks or units.  
• Finally, I hope the most motivating factor is that this will help students be more confident in their reading.  Going back to the why and how Lexia will help the students is hopefully the most powerful motivation there is.