National Testing

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Test scores are useful for:

  • Assessing academic strengths and weaknesses
  • Planning future lessons
  • Complying with state requirements
  • Recording student academic progress

 

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Basic Skills provides the California Achievement Test (CAT)/TerraNova 2. This test, available for students in grades 4-12, is a nationally normed standardized achievement test.

The main portion of the CAT/TerraNova 2 test is called the Survey, and is comprised of four timed tests:

  • Reading & Language Part 1
  • Reading & Language Part 2
  • Mathematics Part 1
  • Mathematics Part 2

The test will measure concepts, processes, and skills taught nation-wide. Students are allowed to bring a calculator for a portion of the math.

An optional test, called the Plus, can be taken in addition to the Survey test. It measures additional skills in Vocabulary, Language Mechanics, Spelling, and Math Computation.

An additional report, called the Performance Evaluation Report (PER) shows the specific objectives measured on the test and if the student answered them correctly.

 

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Test results are kept confidential and mailed directly to the parents, generally within 2-3 weeks of when we receive the test back to our offices for processing.  The test report will provide the raw score, national percentile, normal curve equivalent, stanine, grade equivalent, and scale score for each of the subtests and the total score. Two copies of the test report are sent to parents. A third copy is kept on file at our site until December 31 of the following year.

We currently only have results on file for 2017 and 2018.

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