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Understanding Testing 101

Understanding Testing 101. What does this stuff mean? By George Champlin. Understanding Testing. This presentation will hopefully: Explain the differences in PASS, ITBS, & MAP. Explain the rationale for testing. Explain how to understand the information the tests give.

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Understanding Testing 101

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  1. Understanding Testing 101 What does this stuff mean? By George Champlin

  2. Understanding Testing This presentation will hopefully: • Explain the differences in PASS, ITBS, & MAP. • Explain the rationale for testing. • Explain how to understand the information the tests give.

  3. What are the Differences? • PASS (Palmetto Assessment of State Standards) is a criterion-referenced test. • Measures the standard the state believes students should be achieving in education. • Is one of the highest standards in the nation.

  4. What are the Differences? • ITBS (Iowa Test of Basic Skills) is a norm-referenced test. • Measures student performance compared to a national average. • Is administered by Greenville County Schools to help identify student abilities and performance levels. • Is used in 2nd Grade to identify students eligible for challenge and gifted programs.

  5. What are the Differences? • MAP (Measures of Academic Progress) is a norm-referenced test. • Like ITBS, performance is compared to a national average. • Not only describes achievement level, but also prescribes ways to improve performance. • Will be used yearly to help identify Challenge and Gifted Students.

  6. Rationale for Testing • PASS allows South Carolina to fulfill it’s responsibility to NCLB (No Child Left Behind) by: • Establishing a state standard of achievement. • Measuring the state, district and school’s performance in achieving that standard. • Establishing “next steps” if those standards are not achieved.

  7. Rationale for Testing • ITBS allows Greenville County Schools to measure how our children are doing, compared to the rest of the nation. • Provides an objective measure of achievement for specialized programs. • Allows us to identify areas of strength and weakness.

  8. Rationale for Testing • MAP does many of the same things ITBS accomplishes. Differences are: • Results are available the next day. • Can be administered multiple times during the year to measure progress more accurately. • Provides prescriptive strategies to improve performance.

  9. What does the Information Mean? • Your child’s teacher can help you understand what each of the tests mean. • If you need further help, the school counselor can also provide help. • Each test tells us something different.

  10. What does the Information Mean? PASS • Tells us if a child is meeting the State Standards for English Language Arts (ELA), Math, Science and Social Studies. • Gives information measured in the following way: Not Met Met Exemplary

  11. What does the Information Mean? PASS • Not Met – Does not meet the State Standard. • Met - Meets the State Standard. • Exemplary - Exceeds State Standard.

  12. What does the Information Mean? ITBS • Tells us how a student compares to students around the nation in Reading, Language Arts and Math. • Gives the information measured in several ways: NSS (National Standard Score) NGE (National Grade Equivalent) NS (National Stanine) NPR (National Percentile Ranking)

  13. What does the Information Mean? ITBS • Standard Score – a score scale based students grouped by age. • Grade Equivalent – The score a student in a particular grade would be expected to make. • Stanine – a nine point scale giving a range of performance. One being the lowest score and nine being the highest.

  14. What does the Information Mean? ITBS • Percentile Ranking - percent of students scoring below a particular measure (ex: 50th percentile means 50% of students scored below a specific score.)

  15. What does the Information Mean? MAP • Like ITBS, tells how students compare to other students across the nation in Reading, Language Arts, Math and Science. • Scored by RIT (Rasch unIT) and Lexile. RIT - Is an equal interval score, like feet and inches. Progress can be followed through out the year and from one year to another for school, class and individual averages. Lexile - a unit for measuring text difficulty that is linked to the RIT score. It tells the level a student can read with 75% proficiency. It can help determine a child’s reading ability.

  16. More Information? Contact your student’s teacher or the school counselor if you want more information or if you do not understand the testing information.

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