TESTING
PROGRAMS
The primary aim of the Board's testing program is to provide objective
tools for diagnosing student achievement in the basic language and
mathematical skills for the purpose of improving the quality of future
instruction in those areas.
The specific objectives of the program are:
DIAGNOSIS
- To measure student academic achievement in
language and mathematics.
- To help the students identify their weaknesses
and strengths in language and mathematics.
- To help the teachers and parents identify the
weaknesses and strengths of their students or children in language
and mathematics.
- To help the administrators identify the
weaknesses and strengths of groups of students at various levels of
the educational ladder.
- To help teachers establish educational objectives
and specific levels of educational expectations for individual
students and groups of students with similar skills.
- To help administrators identify appropriate
educational goals for their schools as well as for the district.
PRESCRIPTION
- To help teachers, parents, and guidance personnel
prescribe suitable new courses of study, remedial work, learning
activities, educational materials, and equipment for individual
students as well as for small and large groups of students with
similar needs.
- To help school administrators identify the
necessary changes in the educational program at various levels of
the educational ladder and establish priorities concerning the
purchase and usage of educational materials and equipment.
INSTRUCTION
- To help teachers manage the learning environment
to provide for individual differences among their students.
- To help the students improve their skills in
language and mathematics.
- To help parents reinforce school efforts to
improve the basic skills of their children.
- To help administrators support and supervise
teachers in their efforts to improve the basic skills of their
students at all grade levels.
EVALUATION
- To help teachers, parents, and administrators
identify entry and terminal skills in language and mathematics for
each student; i.e., to identify student progress in an empirical and
objective manner.
- To help students identify their progress over a
period of time in relation to their starting point and in relation
to other classmates.
- To help administrators identify progress of
students on a horizontal and longitudinal basis.
- To help administrators determine the
effectiveness and efficiency of instruction at all levels of the
educational system, and to make important decisions concerning the
continuation, termination, or fundamental change of present
instructional programs for consideration by the Board.
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