What are the grade levels and basic elements of the CTP?
The CTP provides useful information about student performance in grades 1-11 in achieveing essential academic standards in listening, reading, vocabulary, writing, mathematics, and science*. In addition, CTP assesses verbal and quantitative reasoning in levels 3–11. The combined measures can be used to compare more content-specific, curriculum-based indicators of performance (scores on the achievement tests) to the more conceptual knowledge base that helps to gauge potential and support school achievement (scores on the reasoning tests). This comparison can prove highly useful, especially for students whose reasoning and achievement scores exhibit marked discrepancies.
