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Assessment Glossary
Build your understanding of key assessment concepts.
Standardized
Achievement
CTB's proven standardized achievement products help educators meet the challenges of today's demanding assessment environment.
Overview
Informed instruction is critical to achieving proficiency in your schools. CTB/McGraw-Hill helps educators improve student achievement with a full range of standardized achievement tests and reporting solutions.
Achievement tests are designed to measure the things that a student knows and can do.
A well planned, comprehensive assessment program built upon a quality test provides valuable information about students that can support teaching in many areas, including:
• Evaluation of Student Progress
• Needs Assessment
• Instructional Program Planning
• Curriculum Analysis
• Program Evaluation
• Class Grouping
• Administrative Planning and Direction
A sound assessment and evaluation program reinforces educational decisions.
It can positively impact individual students as well as parents or guardians, groups or classes of students, schools, and commun-ities. Test data can be used to:
• Aid teachers and administrators in improving instructional plans
• Keep parents informed about their children's academic progress
• Inform the community of the general progress being made by a school or school system
Information you can trust.
Critical uses of test results place a heavy responsibility on the test publisher, who must ensure that the results are accurate and that clear, reliable information about the interpretation of results is provided. CTB welcomes this responsibility and works to produce quality achievement tests that provide the most valid and reliable information possible.
Our Products
TerraNova, Third EditionIs TerraNova the right achievement test for your students? Learn more about TerraNova Third Edition tests and assessments from CTB. Learn more » |
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First PerformancesCTB offers a suite of engaging observational assessments for early learners in Math and Literacy. Learn how a First Performances can help monitor growth in Pre-K through G3 students. Learn more » |
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TABETABE testing remains the most comprehensive and reliable assessment solution in the industry. Learn how TABE tests from CTB can improve student achievement. Learn more » |
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CTB Online Reporting SystemThe CTB Online Reporting System is a powerful Web-based reporting tool that provides the information to improve student performance. Learn more today. Learn more » |
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- Case Studies
- White
Papers - Beyond the
Numbers eGuide - Grants &
Funding - TerraNova 3
Sample Reports - PreK-3 Intervention
Activities
Results Our Customers Have Achieved With CTB's Interim & Benchmark Solutions
 | Valhalla Union Free School District, Valhalla, New York"The need for a rapid third party report of the test results was also a critical factor in the choice of TerraNova 3. CTB/McGraw-Hill was able to quickly score and provide results within the required turnaround time for their APPR report."Customer: Dr. Brenda Myers, Superintendent of Schools, Valhalla Union Free School District, Valhalla, New York |
 | Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania"I am very proud of our students and teachers. When we look at a district as large as ours and see average scores above the 60th or the 70th percentile, it speaks to the quality of education in our schools."Customer: Sister Edward Quinn, Director of Elementary Curriculum, Instruction and Staff Development for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia |
 | Archdiocese of Newark, Newark, New Jersey"Because we administer TerraNova 3 every year, it gives us the opportunity to track students' progress from first grade through seventh grade to ensure students are advancing academically. This helps our schools determine if they are effectively providing the instruction students need to be competitive in today's world. It also informs the decisions our schools make about everything from the textbooks they choose, to how they deliver instruction, to the sequence of instruction."Customer: Barbara Dolan, Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment for the Archdiocese of Newark |
Standardized Achievement White Papers
How were TerraNova, Third Edition Norms Derived?
Read about the norms used in TerraNova 3. Learn how test publishers provide national norms for their tests so that students' scores can be compared with the performance of other students across the nation. Read white paper »
Accuracy of Test Scores: Why IRT Models Matter
This paper describes different Item Response Theory (IRT) models for both multiple- choice items and constructed-response items. Read white paper »
A Guide to Interpreting and Using the Results of Standardized Achievement Tests
Use our eGuide to maximize your interpretation of standardized achievement test scores. Using the resources available in the eGuide Beyond the Numbers, you will be able to provide useful information to the people who need it: parents, students, administration, or any other audience.
Our complimentary eGuide highlights and explains assessment basics such as: norm-referenced information, criterion-referenced information, performance level information, standard error of measurement, and score interpretation.
View Beyond the Numbers eGuide»
Grants & Funding for Standardized Achievement
The CTB/McGraw-Hill Grant Services website can help you identify which grants are currently available, how CTB products meet requirements, and how to prepare for and apply for grants.
Learn which federal grants are available for CTB standardized achievement tests »
CTB/McGraw-Hill leads the industry in providing solutions that support critical decision making.
Following this tradition, TerraNova,™ Third Edition reports feature rich, graphic data presentations, clear indications of academic achievement, and interpretive information. The following pages provide a comprehensive look at TerraNova 3 reports that allow test administrators to distribute information quickly to teachers, parents, administrators, and others.
CTB provides over 75 different reporting options for TerraNova 3. These options vary in the number of copies of each report and whether reports for individual students are included. Various reporting plans are available to help simplify the ordering process. The tabs below represent only a small portion of the available TerraNova 3 reports.
TerraNova 3 reports include the following features:
- A clear description of the intended purpose and audience
- An explanation of how to interpret the report
- Comparative data on how students or groups are performing with respect to other students or groups (locally and nationally)
- A statement about what the test data suggest
- Information about how students are performing with respect to instructional objectives
- State Proficiency reports featuring item-by-item alignments to your state standards
First Performances Intervention Activities
First Performances™ Intervention Activities provide targeted instruction for the learning benchmarks assessed in Fox Letters and Numbers™, Fox in a Box® and Fox Adds Up™. After administering the assessment, you will be able to identify specific learning benchmarks for which a child needs further instruction. The intervention activities provide a link between assessment and your instruction.
View several sample First Performances Intervention Activities »
StandardizedAchievement Resources
Featured Article
How were TerraNova, Third Edition Norms Derived?
Read about the norms used in TerraNova 3. Learn how test publishers provide national norms for their tests so that students' scores can be compared with the performance of other students across the nation.
Accuracy of Test Scores: Why IRT Models Matter
This paper describes different Item Response Theory (IRT) models for both multiple- choice items and constructed-response items.
21st Century Approach: Preparing Students for the Global Workplace
A Vision for Innovative Assessment and Reporting in the 21st Century
Session 6: Assessing the Common Core State Standards in Writing, Listening, and Speaking in the Next Generation of State Assessments
The sixth in the webinar series Performance Assessment for the Next Generation of State Assessment Programs. Presented on November 15, 2010.
