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- Glen Ridge Board of Education
- Prepared by the Department of Student Services
- Fall 2006
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- Local Skill Mastery Portfolio Assessment (K-2)
- Test of Cognitive Skills (TCS2) (grades 3-7)
- New Jersey Assessment of Knowledge and Skills [NJ ASK 3 and 4] (grades 3
and 4)
- New Jersey ASK 5-7 (grades 5, 6, and 7)
- Grade Eight Proficiency Assessment [GEPA] (grade 8)
- Terra Nova Achievement Test Grade 9
- Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test [PSAT] Grades 10 and 11
- HSPA (grade 11)
- Scholastic Aptitude Test [SAT]
- Advanced Placement Test [AP]
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- Portfolios offer a
comprehensive visual presentation of a student's capabilities,
strengths, weaknesses, accomplishments and progress. The various
components of the assessment
provide an accurate picture of where the child is developmentally and
also provide a record of the child’s progress throughout the year. Portfolios demonstrate:
- What children are doing rather than what they are not doing
- How children learn and progress developmentally and uniquely
- That assessment and evaluation match instruction in the classroom
- That the progress of a child is documented over time and based upon a
variety of evidence rather than on a test.
- Parents are informed of their
child’s progress throughout the year through conferences and ongoing
checklists. The child’s completed portfolio is provided to each parent
at the end of the year.
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- The TCS2 is given to students in grades 3-7.
- The TCS2 is an indicator of academic aptitude. It is not a measure of
innate ability. The TCS2 content reflects abilities important to
learning, such as problem solving, evaluating, discovering
relationships, and remembering. These abilities are important in many
school subjects and are useful in predicting success.
- The Test of Cognitive Skills, Second Edition (TCS/2) is comprised of
four tests designed to assess academic aptitude of students. The four
cognitive abilities are sequences, analogies, memory, and verbal
reasoning.
- Cognitive Skills Index (CSI)
- The CSI is an age-dependent normalized standard score based on an
individual’s performance on the TCS/2 as a whole. This score indicates a
student’s overall cognitive ability (or academic aptitude) relative to
students of similar chronological age without regard to grade placement.
- The CSI has a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 16. This means
that two-thirds of the students in the national norm group had CSI
scores between 84 and 116.
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- Terra Nova content is designed to measure the concepts, processes and
objectives that are taught throughout the nation. The following components are
administered in grade 9 :
- CTB Basic Multiple Assessments
- Reading, Language Arts and
Mathematics are tested
- Terra Nova Plus Component
- Five supplementary tests
that provide more in-depth assessment of basic skills in word analysis,
vocabulary, language mechanics, spelling, and mathematics computation.
- Median National Percentile Range (MNP)
- The median is the middle
score in a set of ranked scores.
It is sometimes called the “counting average” because it is
actually determined by counting up into the distribution until the score
that divides the distribution into two equal halves is reached. Medians
have the characteristic of being unaffected by extreme scores. Therefore many testing specialists
prefer the median when comparing groups.
The 50th percentile represents the national
average. Thus, 50% of all
students fall at or above this point while 50% of all students fall at
or below this point.
- Composite
- Sores from the Terra Nova
Plus tests are averaged with the regular battery scores. This average is then reported as the
composite score.
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- All eleventh grade students are required to take and pass the HSPA.
- Students scoring in the partially proficient range on one or more of the
clusters of the HSPA are required to participate in a remediation
program provided at the high school. A full-time Basic Skills instructor
provides remediation for identified students.
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- These students will participate in the Special Review Assessment (SRA)
- The SRA is the designated alternate assessment for the HSPA. Students
must pass this Assessment, as well as, continue to take the HSPA.
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- On any measure of standardized testing Glen Ridge Students do well!
- A high proportion of our students exceed minimum levels of proficiency
on the HSPA.
- Our students apply to and are accepted at highly competitive colleges.
- Glen Ridge students take high level AP tests.
- Test results have been reviewed by grade level and subject areas within
each building.
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- Remedial services are based on individual student need. Basic skills
instruction is provided in every school in the district for identified
students.
- Instructional techniques and methods have been modified where
needed to meet the individual
needs of the students.
- There is ongoing review focusing on the means and methods of integrating
curriculum and assessment in order to achieve the best results possible.
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