Iowa Assessments
Information about your child’s academic achievement is needed to help them excel and succeed. The Iowa Assessments make this possible by providing detailed information about your child in a variety of important content areas including Reading, English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies.
- The Iowa Assessments help determine how students are performing on the state curriculum as described in the Iowa Core.
- The Iowa Assessments measure student growth and progress from year to year.
- The Iowa Assessments help teachers identify a student’s strengths and identify areas that may need additional emphasis. The assessments produce information that enable sound decision making and provide a focus for teachers to evaluate their instruction.
- The Iowa Assessments provide information about your child’s performance relative to the school, the state of Iowa, and the nation.
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Student Assessment
Student assessments include both formative and summative assessments. The results of the assessments are used by all stakeholders to make program, staffing, professional development, instructional, financial, and personal decisions. They are an important component of both the Collecting/Analyzing Student data step and the On-going Data Collection step in the Iowa Professional Development Model. State-wide and district-wide summative assessments are mandated by Iowa Code (Chapter 12) and used for district accreditation and federal reporting, as defined by the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation. Formative assessments are on-going and are used to inform the instructional process and develop student learning goals.
Individual Growth and Development Indicators (IGDIs) is the state’s universal screening assessment for preschool four-year old children. Assessment measures include:
Picture Naming (Oral Language & Vocabulary
Rhyming (Phonological Awareness)
Alliteration (Phonological Awareness)
Sound Identification (Alphabet Knowledge)
Which One Doesn't Belong? (Comprehension)
FAST (Kindergarten - 4th grades)
What is the Formative Assessment System for Teachers (FAST)?
The Formative Assessment System for Teachers (FAST) is a suite of assessment tools
that are designed to make assessment highly efficient and instructionally relevant.
Assessment measures vary according to grade level:
Kindergarten:
Concepts of Print, Letter Names, Onset Sounds, Letter Sounds, Word Segmenting, Nonsense Words, Sight Words
1st Grade:
Sight Words, Word Segmenting, Nonsense Words, Sentence Reading, Curriculum Based Measure Reading (CBM)
2nd Grade: CBM Reading
3rd Grade: CBM Reading
4th Grade: CBM Reading
On a Curriculum Based Measure students read a grade level passage; accuracy and fluency are scored.
The Formative Assessment System for Teachers (FAST) is a suite of assessment tools
that are designed to make assessment highly efficient and instructionally relevant.
Assessment measures vary according to grade level:
Kindergarten:
Concepts of Print, Letter Names, Onset Sounds, Letter Sounds, Word Segmenting, Nonsense Words, Sight Words
1st Grade:
Sight Words, Word Segmenting, Nonsense Words, Sentence Reading, Curriculum Based Measure Reading (CBM)
2nd Grade: CBM Reading
3rd Grade: CBM Reading
4th Grade: CBM Reading
On a Curriculum Based Measure students read a grade level passage; accuracy and fluency are scored.