1	District-Wide Testing 2006-2007 Glen Ridge Board of Education Prepared by the Department of Student Services Fall 2007
2	2006-2007 District Test Program 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) Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test [PSAT] Grades 10 and 11 HSPA (grade 11) Scholastic Aptitude Test [SAT] Advanced Placement Test [AP]
3	Primary Portfolio Assessment –K-2 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.
4	Test of Cognitive Skills (TCS2) 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.
5	NJASK 3 New Jersey Assessment of Skills and Knowledge LANGUAGE ARTS LITERACY ALL STUDENTS Cycle II Data
6	NJASK 3 New Jersey Assessment of Skills and Knowledge MATHEMATICS ALL STUDENTS Cycle II Data
7	NJASK 4 New Jersey Assessment of Skills and Knowledge LANGUAGE ARTS LITERACY ALL STUDENTS
8	NJASK 4 New Jersey Assessment of Skills and Knowledge MATHEMATICS ALL STUDENTS
9	NJASK 4 New Jersey Assessment of Skills and Knowledge SCIENCE ALL STUDENTS
10	NJASK 5 New Jersey Assessment of Skills and Knowledge LANGUAGE ARTS ALL STUDENTS
11	NJASK 5 New Jersey Assessment of Skills and Knowledge MATHEMATICS ALL STUDENTS
12	NJASK 6 New Jersey Assessment of Skills and Knowledge LANGUAGE ARTS ALL STUDENTS
13	NJASK 6 New Jersey Assessment of Skills and Knowledge MATHEMATICS ALL STUDENTS
14	NJASK 7 New Jersey Assessment of Skills and Knowledge LANGUAGE ARTS ALL STUDENTS
15	NJASK 7 New Jersey Assessment of Skills and Knowledge MATHEMATICS ALL STUDENTS
16	GEPA Grade Eight Proficiency Assessment LANGUAGE ARTS LITERACY ALL STUDENTS
17	GEPA Grade Eight Proficiency Assessment MATHEMATICS ALL STUDENTS
18	GEPA Grade Eight Proficiency Assessment SCIENCE ALL STUDENTS
19	Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test (PSAT) Grade 10 Students
20	Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test (PSAT) Grade 11 Students
21	Gr. 11 HSPA High School Proficiency Assessment LANGUAGE ARTS LITERACY ALL STUDENTS
22	Gr. 11 HSPA High School Proficiency Assessment MATHEMATICS ALL STUDENTS
23	HSPA Remediation 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 basic skills remediation program provided at the high school.
24	HSPA Remediation Students scoring in the partially proficient range 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.
25	Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT)
26	ADVANCED PLACEMENT In the spring of 2007, eighty-eight (88) students took a total of one hundred seventy-five (175) Advanced Placement exams. Eighty-four percent of the grades were “3” or higher.
27	Advanced Placement Tests
28	Advanced Placement Tests
29	Colleges and Universities
30	Notes and Follow-Up 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.
31	Notes and Follow-up Remedial services are based on individual student need. Basic skills instruction is provided in every school in the district for identified students and those scoring in the partially proficient range on the NJ ASK. 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.