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Assessment Information

Stanford Achievement Test, Tenth Edition (Stanford 10) (SAT-10)

• Primary Purposes:

- To compare individual and group performance with performance of the norming group
- To report relative strengths and weaknesses of individuals and groups
- To provide data to study changes in performance over time

• Content:

- Grade 3—Reading, Mathematics, and Language
- Grade 4—Reading, Mathematics, and Language
- Grade 5—Reading, Mathematics, Language, and Science
- Grade 6—Reading, Mathematics, Language, and Social Science
- Grade 7—Reading, Mathematics, Language, and Science
- Grade 8—Reading, Mathematics, and Language

• Results provide Alabama educators, parents, and the public a comparison of the performance of Alabama’s students, schools, school systems, and state to the performance of the nation.

Alabama Reading and Mathematics Test (ARMT)

• A criterion-referenced test
• Consists of selected items from the Stanford Achievement Test (Stanford 10) in reading and mathematics
• Additional test items were developed to be included so that all content standards were fully covered.
• Primary Purposes:

- To assess students’ mastery of state content standards in reading and mathematics
- To report individual and group performance
- To report relative strengths and weaknesses of individuals and groups
- To provide data to study changes in performance over time
• Grades 3-8—Reading and Mathematics


• Results are used for accountability for Grades 3-8 in meeting one of the requirements of the No Child Left Behind legislation.

Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS)

• Primary Purposes:

- To assess students’ mastery of early reading skills
- To provide teachers and parents with a better understanding of a student’s strengths, weaknesses, and progress in the major developmental areas of early literacy
- To provide information to the teachers and parents in a time-efficient manner
- To assist teachers with the development of classroom instruction appropriate for the student

• Content:

- Kindergarten - Initial Sound Fluency, Letter Naming Fluency, Phoneme Segmentation, and Nonsense Word Fluency
- Grade 1 - Letter Naming Fluency, Phoneme Segmentation, Nonsense Word Fluency, and Oral Reading Fluency
- Grade 2 - Nonsense Word Fluency and Oral Reading Fluency
- Grade 3 (optional) - Oral Reading Fluency

Alabama Science Assessment (ASA)

• A criterion-referenced test
• Primary Purposes:

- To assess students’ mastery of state content standards in science
- To report individual and group performance
- To report relative strengths and weaknesses of individuals and groups
- To provide data to study changes in performance over time

• Content:

- Grade 5—Physical Science, Life Science, Earth and Space Science
- Grade 7—Life Science

Alabama Direct Assessment of Writing (ADAW)

• Primary Purposes:

- To assess students’ writing performance in descriptive, narrative, expository, and persuasive modes of discourse, thus encouraging writing in all four modes
- To report to the public regarding students’ writing performance in descriptive, narrative, expository, and persuasive modes of discourse

• Content:

- Grade 5—Descriptive, Narrative, and Expository modes of writing
- Grade 7—Descriptive, Narrative, Expository, and Persuasive modes of writing
- Grade 10—Narrative, Expository, and Persuasive modes of writing

• Scores are reported in the following manner:

- Focused Holistic Score: This requires the reader to focus attention on a set of compositional characteristics (purpose, content, audience, and organization/clarity) and to assign scores based on the level of proficiency that the writer demonstrates in these areas.
- Analytic Scores: These scores are given for writing mechanics, sentence formation, and grammar and usage.

Alabama Alternate Assessment (AAA)

• A criterion-referenced portfolio assessment
• Administered to students with significant cognitive disabilities working on the Alabama Extended Standards
• Primary Purposes:

- To assess students’ mastery of state extended content standards in reading, mathematics, and science
- To report individual and group performance
- To report relative strengths and weaknesses of individuals and groups
- To provide data to study changes in performance over time

• Content:

- Grades K-8 and 11—Reading
- Grades 3-8 and 11—Mathematics
- Grades 5, 7, and 11—Science

National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)

• The only nationally representative and continuing assessment of what Americas students know and can do in various subject areas
• Grades 4, 8, and 12
• Mathematics, Reading, Science, Writing, the Arts, Civics, Economics, Geography, and U.S. History
• Provides results on subject-matter achievement, instructional experiences, and school environment for populations of students (e.g., all fourth-graders) and groups within those populations (e.g., female students, Hispanic students)
• Does not provide scores for individual students or schools

Links
Alabama Student Assessment
Calendar for Student Assessment (2012-2013)