Assessment & Testing
AIMSweb Benchmark Assessments
Grades: K-2
Testing Dates: September, January, May
AIMSweb is a universal screening, progress monitoring, and data management system that supports our Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) and tiered instruction. AIMSweb uses brief, valid, and reliable measures of reading and math performance, which can be generalized to any curriculum.
MAP & MAP for Primary Assessments
Grades: K-2
Testing Dates: September, December, March
Measures of Academic Progress® (MAP) are assessments that measure growth, project proficiency on state assessments, and inform how educators differentiate instruction, evaluate programs, and structure curriculum. Computer adaptive MAP assessments reveal precisely which academic skills and concepts the student has acquired and what they’re ready to learn. MAP assessments are grade independent and adapt to each student’s instructional level.
Kindergarten Readiness Assessment (KRA)
Grade: K
Testing Dates: August-November
The KRA assessment measures a child’s school readiness. Ohio’s Early Learning and Development Standards (birth to kindergarten entry) are the basis for the new assessment. It has six components: social skills (including social and emotional development, and approaches toward learning), mathematics, science, social studies, language and literacy, and physical well-being and motor development.