What type of educational testing and assessment happens in the district?
District testing, benchmarks, and grade level indicators help to determine necessary intervention for students. The Iowa Tests of Basic Skills and the Cognitive Abilities Test are given to students to accurately evaluate their achievement and to determine if students are working to their ability. Setting benchmarks and grade level indicators for each course of study (math, language arts, social studies and science) in K-8th grades, correlating them to the state standards, and capturing students’ mastery of these important concepts before they take these tests, is a concerted effort on the part of the district to assess appropriate intervention methods.
