Assessments

Assessments are crucial to ensuring students are learning and teachers can adjust instruction to meet student needs.

We rely on data from state-required and district-level assessments to measure student performance, guide instruction and evaluate programs.

Standardized Testing

State-required assessments
District-level assessments

State-required assessments

These assessments are required by the state to make schools accountable for student academic performance.

Dyslexia Screening: The state requires schools to screen students for dyslexia. RSD uses Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN) for screening students in K–grade 1.
Smarter Balanced Assessments (SBA): ELA and math tests in grades 3–8 and 10 are required for federal and state accountability.
Washington - Access to Instruction and Measurement (WA-AIM): ELA, math, and science alternate assessments in grades 3–11 for students with significant cognitive disabilities documented in their Individualized Education Program (IEP) are required for federal and state accountability.
Washington Comprehensive Assessment of Science (WCAS): Science tests for grades 5, 8, and 11 are required for federal and state accountability.
WIDA Screener & Access: Tests given to all students in grades K–12 who qualify for English language development services to determine which students remain eligible to continue receiving English language development services.

District-level assessments

The district conducts additional diagnostic testing of student learning to provide teachers and school leaders with data showing student growth and where instructional adjustments are needed.

i-Ready: ELA and math assessments that help determine student’s needs, personalize their learning, and monitor progress throughout the school year.
PSAT: The practice version of the SAT which is also used as the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test taken by sophomores or juniors.
Washington Kindergarten Inventory of Developing Skills (WaKIDS): Assessment for student readiness for kindergarten in math and reading.

Early Entrance Testing

We acknowledge there are instances when a child is socially, emotionally and intellectually ready for the challenge of school before they meet the state-mandated minimum age.

The district offers kindergarten and first-grade early entrance testing once a year, in mid-August, to children who turn 5 (kindergarten) or 6 (first grade) between Sept. 1 and Dec. 1. Test registration deadline is July 31.

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Highly Capable Assessment

Toni Vonderhulls
Coordinator
(509) 967-6025
Toni.Vonderhulls@rsd.edu

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