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Grade Levels |
Third Grade and Sixth Grade |
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Description |
The Iowa
Test of Basic Skills is a standardized achievement test. The
main purpose of the ITBS is to provide the school with
information about students’ basic skills. This is a
norm-referenced assessment that allows teachers and
administrators to compare how their students and school are
doing compared to other students at the same grade level
across the nation.
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Complete Battery Test Content: Language Arts, Reading,
Math, Social Studies, Science, Sources of Information
and Math Computation.
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Prosser School District administers: Reading, Language
Arts and Math
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Purpose |
Provides
schools, the district and the state of Washington with
student achievement data that is comparable across the
nation. |
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Assessment Time Frame |
March |
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Publisher |
Riverside
Publishing |
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Links |
Description
of the assessment, the authors and the content of each
subtest in detail. |
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Test Administration |
This test
is given over a series of days. The format of the questions
is multiple choice. Teachers must adhere to the time limits
stated in the test administration manual. |
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Administration Requirements |
The
Washington State Legislature requires 3rd and 6th
grade students to take the following portions of the ITBS:
Reading, Language Arts and Math |
