ITBS Testing

I know what your thinking, that I'm just someone else complaining about testing. Well you're wrong I just wanted to talk to everyone about the reasons we do them. One reason the state tests us is that they use these results to help determine the extent to which individual students have the background and skills needed to deal successfully with the academic aspects of an instructional program. Another one is to find out the general developmental level of students so that materials and instructional procedures may be adapted to meet individual needs. These are only some of the reasons. See these tests are meant to help us. But I will admit that the results are misused sometimes. Sometimes the results are used to hold a student back a grade, aven though the tests dont count as a grade. They have also been used to dtermine whether a child even belongs in school yet. Again, as I said earlier, the tests are meant to help us, but have been misused. Just keep this in mind when you have these tests, instead of griping about them.