Assessing My Child
District Benchmark (CASE)
Purpose: To assess how schools are progressing towards meeting their academic goals.
Grade Level/Class: Grades 1-5 ELA and Math
Description: Taken by paper/pencil. The benchmark is a multiple choice assessment designed to show if students are meeting grade level expectations.
Use of Data: The results are provided to teachers and school administrators to help them address the instructional needs of their students. They may be used as one measure of student achievement during the current school year.
Parental/Student Notification: Results are provided to teachers and school administrators only.
Grades: No grades are given on this assessment.
CogAT (Cognitive Abilities Test)
Purpose: To assess the reasoning and problem-solving skills of students.
Grade Level/Class: 2
Description: CogAT is a nationally normed cognitive ability test. All three sections in CogAT are referred to as batteries and each battery consists of a set of questions that test different reasoning and problem solving abilities of a student. The three batteries are: verbal, quantitative, and non-verbal.
Use of Data: The results are provided to teachers and school administrators to help them address the instructional needs of their students. They may be used as one measure of student achievement during the current school year.
Parental/Student Notification: Schools are provided stickers to place in the student’s cumulative folder and a score report is generally sent home within a month of testing.
Grades: No grades are given on this assessment.
easyCBM
Purpose: To assess the performance and progress of all students on grade level skills and assist schools with identifying students who may need additional instructional support.
Grade Level/Class: K-3
Description: easyCBM is the universal screening and progress monitoring tool Rutherford County will use for the 2022-2023 school year. It is a nationally-normed assessment and a requirement of Tennessee's RTI² (Response to Instruction and Intervention) framework.
Use of Data: Identify students who may be in need of targeted intervention in addition to their typical high-quality core instruction.
Parental/Student Notification: Parents will receive notification if the results of the universal screener indicate their child meets the requirements for additional academic support and intervention(s). If a student qualifies for instructional intervention, his/her parents will be notified of their child’s progress every 4.5 weeks.
Grades: No grades are given on this assessment.
TNReady Math, English Language Arts
Purpose: To measure skills in Reading, Language Arts, and Mathematics
Grade Level/Class: 3-5
Description: It is a criterion-referenced test which measures a student's performance according to Tennessee state standards, rather than to the performance of other test takers.
Use of Data: The results are provided to teachers and school administrators to help them address the instructional needs of their students. They may be used as one measure of student achievement during the current school year.
Parental/Student Notification: A report concerning performance on specific objectives (criterion-referenced) and a description of student performance on academic skills based on the grade span standards (performance levels) is typically sent home five to six months after testing. Initial results may be noted on the student’s report card if the quick scores can be obtained from the State in time.
Grades: The results of these assessments will be factored into the student’s final grade at 15% for students in grades 3-12.
TCAP Science
Purpose: To measure a student’s performance on the Tennessee state standards associated with Science.
Grade Level/Class: 3-5
Description: It is a criterion-referenced test which measures a student's performance according to Tennessee state standards, rather than to the performance of other test takers.
Use of Data: The results are provided to teachers and school administrators to help them address the instructional needs of their students. They may be used as one measure of student achievement during the current school year.
Parental/Student Notification: A report concerning performance on specific objectives (criterion-referenced) and a description of student performance on academic skills based on the grade span standards (performance levels) is typically sent home five to six months after testing. Initial results may be noted on the student’s report card if the quick scores can be obtained from the State in time.
Grades: The results of these assessments will be factored into the student’s final grade at 15% for students in grades 3-12.