1. Fulton Sunshine Academy
Coffeehouse with Administrators
Testing
October 11, 2012

2. Purpose of Testing
• Purpose of Testing IS to get the outcome
of Teaching & Learning
• Purpose of Testing IS NOT a reason for
Teaching & Learning
• Being aware of students' educational
attainments and identifying their learning
needs

3. Testing Outline
• State Level Tests:
o CRCT (Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests)
o 3rd and 5th Grade Writing Assessments
o GKIDS (Kindergartens – ongoing)
• District (Fulton County) Level Tests:
o ITBS (Iowa Tests of Basic Skills®) for 3rd and 5th Grades)
o Checkpoints (Not available for Charter Schools)
• Internal (School-Wide) Tests
o MAP (Measures of Academic Progress)
o Benchmark Tests
o Writing Assessment Benchmarks

4. Testing Outline
• Criterion Referenced Tests
o CRCT (Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests)
o Benchmark Tests
o Checkpoints (Not available for Charter Schools)
• Norm-Referenced Tests
o ITBS (Iowa Tests of Basic Skills®) for 3rd and 5th Grades
o MAP (Measures of Academic Progress)

5. CRCT
• Criterion Referenced Test
• Available for 3rd , 4th , 5th grades
• State Level Test
• Assessing grade level performance standards
• Score range: 700-990(~ vary)
• Levels:
o Level 1 – Do not meet (below 800 )
o Level 2 – Meet (above 800, below 850)
o Level 3 – Exceeding (above 850)

6. Sample CRCT-Report Card

7. ITBS
• Norm Referenced Test
• Available for Grades 3 and 5 only
• County Level Test
• National comparison of students' achievement
vs. that of students nationwide
• Compares a student’s performance to others
who have taken the same test under the same
conditions
• Score range: 1 percentile – 99 percentile
• Level: 50 percentile is national norm

8. Sample ITBS – Report Card

9. MAP
• Norm Referenced Test
• Available for Grades K thru 5th
• Internal School-wide Test
• National comparison of students' achievement
vs. that of students nationwide
• Computerized online test
• Administered 3 times in a school year.
• Adaptive: Significant difference between MAP
and ITBS as NRT (Similar to SAT)
• Score range: 1 percentile – 99 percentile
• Level: 50 percentile is national norm
• RIT Score: Rasch unIT

10. Sample MAP – Report Card

11. Sample MAP – Student Goal Setting Worksheet

12. Benchmark Tests
• Criterion Referenced Test
• Internal School-wide Test
• Assessing grade level performance standards
• Score range: 0% -100%

13. 3rd Grade Writing Assessment
• 3rd Grade Writing Assessment consists of teacher
evaluation of student writing using an analytic scoring
system
• Types of writing required by the GPS (narrative,
informational, persuasive and response to literature)
• Using representative samples of student writing, third-
grade teachers are to use the analytic scoring rubrics
• Teachers collect writing samples by providing many
opportunities for students to produce the various types
of writing throughout the year

14. 5th Grade Writing Assessment
• The writing assessment for grade five consists of an
evaluation of each student response to an assigned
prompt
• Students are assigned a topic from a prompt bank
representing three genres:
o narrative
o informational
o persuasive
• Students are allowed approximately 120 minutes to
write their essays
• The writing assessment is administered in one day.

15. Importance of CRCT
• Assesses grade level curriculum
• Promotion to 4th Grade: 3rd Grades must pass
CRCT Reading to
• Promotion 5th Grade: 5th Grades must pass
CRCT Math and Reading
• Placement Criteria for Advanced and
Accelerated Levels

16. Importance of ITBS
• Takes a snapshot of students performance
and potential
• ITBS Results are used for Placement in 4th and
6th Grade

17. Importance of MAP
• Takes a snapshot of students performance
and potential
• MAP Results are used for Placement