IAR is a yearly test taken by students in grades 3rd-8th grade one time per year in the spring to track state wide progress
Prior to kindergarten assessment
Kindergarten Readiness Test – The Kindergarten Readiness Test (KRT) is administered to incoming kindergarten students to assist in determining a student’s readiness in beginning Kindergarten. The readiness skills assessed are vocabulary, letter identification, visual discrimination, phonemic awareness, comprehension & interpretation and mathematical knowledge.
End of 2nd grade assessment
Cognitive Abilities Test – CogAT is an assessment administered to students in grade 2 that has been designed for measuring learned reasoning capabilities of students in three major areas that are mostly linked with their academic success in school. These three areas include Nonverbal abilities, Quantitative abilities, and Verbal abilities. The primary goal of this test is accessing acquired reasoning capabilities of students.
Assessing Comprehension & Communication in English State to State (ACCESS) – is a standards-based, criterion referenced English language proficiency test designed to measure English language learners’ social and academic proficiency in English. It assesses social and instructional English as well as the language associated with language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies within the school context across the four language domains.
3 times per year for all 2nd-8th grade
MAP – The Measures of Academic Progress (MAP), developed by NWEA (Northwest Evaluation Association.), is a computerized adaptive test, given to students in grades 2-8, that measures a child's academic growth from year to year in the areas of mathematics, reading, and language usage. In the MAP system, the difficulty of the test is adjusted to the student's performance. The difficulty of each question is based on how well the student has answered all of the questions up to that point. As the student answers correctly, the questions become more difficult. If the student answers incorrectly, the questions become easier.