What is the TerraNova?
The TerraNova is a Normed Referenced Test (NRT) that shows the achievement of the test taker relative to a large national sample of students. The composite score is a combination of Reading, Language Arts, and Math. This test was administered to grades 4, 6, and 8 in the 1997-1998 and 1998-1999 school years, to grades 3-9 in the 1999-2000, 2000-2001, and 2001-2002 school years, and grades 3, 5, 6, 7, and 9 in the 2003-2004 school year. Percentile ranks, which range from 1 to 99 are commonly used for reporting test results to students and parents/guardians. You may interpret a percentile as the percentage of students in a norm group whose scores fall below a given student’s score. For example, if a student scores a national percentile rank (NP) of 72, the student scored higher than approximately 72 percent of the students in the national norm group.
