Kindergarten – Grade 2. Testing in the Primary Grades Provides information for instructional planning Serves as a baseline for monitoring student progress.

Kindergarten – Grade 2

Testing in the Primary Grades

• Provides information for instructional planning

• Serves as a baseline for monitoring student progress

• Represents the beginning of a continual sequence of assessment from the early primary grades through high school

Testing in the Primary Grades

• Focuses is on academic aspects of the early childhood curriculum

• Assesses the extent to which a child is prepared cognitively to begin work in certain academic portions of the curriculum

Descriptions of Individual Tests

Kindergarten• Vocabulary• Word Analysis• Listening• Language• Mathematics• Reading

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Grades 1-2• Vocabulary• Word Analysis• Reading• Listening• Language• Mathematics• Social Studies• Science• Sources of Information

Kindergarten – Grade 2

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Score Definitions and Interpretation

• Grade Equivalent

• Normal Curve Equivalent

• Percent Correct

• Percentile Rank

• Standard Score

• Stanine

Riverside Assessment Products Featured on the

National Center on Response to Intervention’s

2010 List of Screening Tools 

•Iowa Tests of Basic Skills® (ITBS®)•Gates-MacGinitie Reading Tests® (GMRT®)