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MAP Growth Assessment
MAP Growth is given three times during the school year (fall, winter, and spring) to measure achievement in that point in time as well as growth for students throughout the school year or years.  It also serves as an indicator of how students will perform on more high stakes assessments.

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Advanced Placements (AP) Exams

AP Exams are criterion referenced to measure how well a student has learned a specific concept or skills in an AP subject. AP exams are used in high schools in collaboration with The College Board to grant students credit for a college course.

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Smaller Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) Assessments

SBAC Assessments are given in the spring and used in Nevada for grades 3-8 to measure student progress in ELA, math, and in some grades, science. In correlation with the Nevada Academic Content Standards, it is used on the Nevada Report Card to report the performances of schools and districts.

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iReady Diagnostic (Reading and Math)

iReady is given three times during the school year-fall, winter, and spring. It is used to measure students progress and growth in reading and math against a norm table. Progress can be monitored within a school year or across several school years, as long as a student is using the program.

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World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment (WIDA)

WIDA measures English language development for English Language Learners.  This assessment assists educators in identifying levels of language achievement to assist students with acquiring academic language in the classroom. The WIDA standards consists of social and academic language for ELL's to engage in meaningful language.

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Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT)

The SAT is administered by the College Board and used measure high school students' understanding in language, reading, writing, and math for entry into a college system.  This exam also gives colleges an analysis of an applicants college readiness.

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Ongoing Teacher Observations

Teacher observations in the classroom are quick checks to assess student learning on concepts or skills. It allows teachers to quickly make changes to daily instruction to meet students' at their level.

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Grade Level Created (Reading or Math) Assessments

Grade level created reading or math assessments is created by a grade level team to measure their student's levels in the specific subjects. Grade level common assessments can be pre- and post-assessments to assess student understanding of content and skills taught during the unit or time period.

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CORE Phonics Survey

The CORE Phonics Survey measures individual student's mastery of reading foundational skills. It provides teachers with a diagnostic overview of where or what point a child is not able to sound out or blend words. This assessment helps teachers pinpoint the first area of difficulty in reading phonics.

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Kaufman Test of Academic Achievement (KTEA)

The KTEA is administered individually to measure student's achievement in reading, written expression, math, and language. It is widely used to measure and set goals for students with an Individual Education Program (IEP), and is compared to peers of the same age or grade level.

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Panorama Survey

Recently introduced, the Panorama Survey is used to measure student perspective of school and classroom climates, engagement, and growth mindset. As a formative assessment, it allows teachers to make changes to their classroom climate for better instruction and meaningful learning.

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Curriculum Based Measurements (CBM)

CBMs such as AIMSWeb, EasyCBM, or DIBELS are used to measure growth in a particular subject area, mostly reading and math.  While a student's score norm referenced with peers in their grade level, these assessments also monitors progress.  Students are given a time limit, usually one minute to read words or eight minutes to complete math problems, which gives an overall picture based on the student's progress and rate of improvement.  CBMs also gives a trajectory path, against the peers of the same grade level at that particular point in the school year.

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End of Unit, Quarterly, Semester Exams

These summative exams are used to measure what students learned throughout a given unit of study or a given time. Summative assessments weighs heavily on a subject or class grade as compared to formative assessments.

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Individual Student Data Collection for Goal Setting

Students collect their own data on a criteria of work and assessments to set goals for their own learning. They think about goal setting, monitor their own progress and become more competent to assess their thinking and assist in peer's learning as well. Providing and receiving feedback to and from peers allows students to assess their learning goals.

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Student Portfolios

Student portfolios are not necessarily data driven, but can be performance or content driven. It can be a culminating project that demonstrates ones thinking process or the product of the thinking process that can be applied to different content areas. Students are assessing their learning process through work samples and ultimately developing an internal awareness of learning.

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Culminating Projects

Culminating projects may be based on students' responses across subjects. It encompasses students real and authentic work such as oral or slideshow presentations that includes, social studies and ELA. A culminating project could also include a kindergarten class book on students' favorites, encompassing reading and writing.