ASSESSMENT BRIEFS

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Assessment Briefs for End-of-Grade Mathematics and Reading Comprehension Tests (Grades 3-8)

• Assessment Brief: End-of-Grade Retest 1, April 2009 (pdf, 44kb)


• Assessment Brief: Understanding the Raw Score Ranges by Achievement Level Report
  December 2008 (pdf, 73kb)


• EOG Raw Score Ranges by Achievement Level Reports
  • EOG Reading Edition 3 (pdf, 27kb)
  • EOG Math 2008-09 (pdf, 32kb)
  • EOG Science 2008-09 (pdf, 15kb)


• Assessment Brief: Time Allowed for North Carolina End-of-Grade Tests (pdf, 49kb)
  Information on test administration times for end-of-grade reading comprehension, mathematics, and science tests (February 2008)


• Assessment Brief: North Carolina End-of-Grade Tests (pdf, 145kb)
  Information about the purpose of the assessment; a description of the assessment; and information on how the assessment is scored (March 2007)

 

• Assessment Brief: Calculator Requirements for End-of-Grade and End-of-Course Assessments (pdf, 77kb)
  Information about the use of calculators for End-of-Grade and End-of-Course state assessments (March 2013)

 

• Assessment Brief: Understanding End-of-Grade Testing: Achievement Levels (pdf, 140kb)
  Information on how achievement levels for end-of-grade tests are established (Spring 1999)

 

• Assessment Brief: Understanding North Carolina Tests: Thinking Skill Level (pdf, 120kb)
  Document provides a description of the thinking skill levels used to classify questions for the North Carolina Testing Program (Summer 1999)

   

• Assessment Brief: Research Update on End-of-Grade Testing: Assessment of Reading Comprehension (pdf, 53kb)
  Provides trend data from the spring 1993, 1994, and 1995 end-of-grade (reading/mathematics) test administrations (Spring 1997)

 

• Assessment Brief: Research on End-of-Grade Testing: Characteristics of Level I Students (pdf, kb)
  Information on the data from typical Level I students during the 1994 end-of-grade statewide test administration (Spring 1995)

 

• Understanding the Individual Student Report Documents (UISRs)
  A web page containing all of the UISRs for the North Carolina testing program.