Iowa Assessment Incentive Plan

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Anna Zelenovich 
Columnist 
Southeast Polk offers an incentive
plan.Photo credit Anna Zelenovich. 
The Iowa Assessment Incentive Plan is offered to Southeast Polk students who do well on the Iowa tests. Students who scored in the 90th-99th percentiles on their previous IA Assessments must score in at least the 90th percentile again. Students who scored in the 80th-89th percentiles must maintain or increase their score from the previous year assessments. Students who scored in the 79th percentile or below must show a 3 percentile increase on their IA Assessments.
           Students who meet these requirements will earn incentive to take a Ram-planned absence day, buy back one day planned absence, or 4 tardies to make them Ram Plan eligible. These rewards are trying to make kids try their best on the IA Assessments.
            Many students including Junior Sierra Mitchell like the idea of the Iowa Assessments incentive day.
“I like having the incentive day, it gives kids something to work for,” said Mitchell.
Students can use their incentive day in whatever way they want anytime throughout the semester, it is simply their reward for working hard and improving their scores.

            “I don’t like missing much school so I’ll probably use my incentive day around finals so I can study all day,” said Mitchell.

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