About the New England Common Assessment Program

State Testing Information for Rhode Island

Portions of the following material were taken from the Rhode Island Department of Education website. Please see our links and source sections at the bottom of the page for more details and references.

General Description of the Tests

New England Common Assessment Program (NECAP)

• Grades: 3-8, 11
• Subjects: Reading, Mathematics, Science, Writing
• Rhode Island partnered with Vermont and New Hampshire to develop Grade Level Expectations (GLEs) and to design the New England Common Assessment Program (NECAP).
• One of the most important goals of this partnership was to make these assessments instructionally relevant by providing information to school administrators, teachers, and parents to help them make informed decisions about student instructional needs.

Rhode Island Alternate Assessment (RIAA)

• Grades: 2-8, 10
• Subjects: Reading, Mathematics, Science, Writing
• For the small number of students who cannot participate in large-scale assessments even with accommodations

National Assessment of Educational Progress

• Grades: 4, 8, 12
• Subjects: Mathematics, Reading, Science, Writing, Arts, Civics, Economics, Geography, U.S. History
• The largest nationally representative assessment of what America’s students know and can do

Our curriculum is focused around actual material that a student is likely to see on the upcoming New England Common Assessment Program test. Nationally known for delivering high quality and affordable materials that help students improve their scores, we provide you both paper-based instruction and easy to use online test preparation.