Our system is set-up as a tool to test a student's knowledge in a given area and help determine if there are areas of weakness where further assistance is needed. Giving an on-grade benchmark screener to students, in grades K-8, is the way to test student knowledge.
A student is considered on-grade when they are performing at the 50th percentile. Those students functioning above the 50th percentile should only be tested 3 times a year during the benchmark testing periods.
Students performing below the 50th percentile should be tested, with progress monitoring measures, between benchmark testing periods. We suggest along with progress monitoring, teachers give guided instruction in order to help build and reinforce a student's knowledge base.
The easyCBM system only lets a student take a test once because the retaking of a test will likely give an artificially-inflated score due to familiarity with the material. This is likely to result in a higher score that is based more on practice than on actual actual improvement in knowledge and skill.
When taking a test a student can start, leave, and even come back and finish an online test later. Once a student logs back on, the test will pick up where the student left off.
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