Assess Less. Measure More. - Amazon S3Comparative & Superlative Adjectives Math 27 35 25 25 Number Sense & Operations Algebraic Patterns & Connections Geometry Measurement Reading

AssessmentsIowa

TM

Assess Less.Measure More.

Data you can trustin less testing time!

The newest form with the most current norms! Iowa Assessments Form G with 2017 norms

2

The Proven Advantages of the Iowa AssessmentsNow the most updated assessment content and normative comparisonsThe Iowa AssessmentsTM from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt® are evidence-based, psychometrically sound assessments that measure student achievement and growth against next generation learning standards for grades K–12. Because of an efficient test design and powerful reporting, the Iowa Assessments allow you to assess less while you measure more.

The Iowa Assessments all-new Form G and its equivalent Form E are built to a carefully constructed test blueprint and content specifications focused on current best-in-class state, national, and international benchmarks and standards of educational achievement. New 2017 norms provide the most up-to-date national comparisons of student performance.

• Monitor Growth using a continuous, researched-based, vertical scale to accurately measure academic progress from kindergarten through high school

• Indicate College and Career Readiness through high-quality, easily accessible, and interpretable assessment data helping educators and families determine whether students are on track for college and careers

• Evaluate student mastery of next generation skills and rigorous learning standards across a variety of important content areas

The Iowa Assessments enable administrators and educators to:

All while offering:

• Option to administer Complete, Core, or Survey batteries

• Items align to one of three cognitive levels, providing an additional view of mastery

• Skill and core domain alignment and reporting

• Full reporting suite includes Lexile® and Quantile® measures

• Ancillaries include print-on-demand planning and interpretive guides and online videos and training materials

3

Measure College and Career Readiness—Beginning in Middle SchoolMaximizing your school or district’s resources—instructor time, money, and curricular changes—has never been more challenging or important. Only Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has the insight and data systems to help you track college and career readiness starting at Grade 6. Data gathered from our reliable and evidence-based assessments can help you make important decisions by providing projected reports of student preparedness for success through Grade 12 and beyond.

How it works

The Iowa Assessments generate readiness reports showing where students in Grades 6–12 land on the college and career preparedness scale, informing decisions related to curricula and teacher performance. In addition, individual student data helps identify students who may require intervention or advanced courses and programs, or those who would benefit from accelerated coursework.

Why it works

The Iowa Assessments are the only assessments that begin evaluating student preparedness for the ACT®/SAT® in Grade 6—two years before any other existing assessment system.

Grades 6–8 are a critical time for skills development, so the ability to begin interventions or adjust curricula to ensure students are “on track” for success before they enter high school can go a long way toward improving overall student, school, and district performance.

In addition, the longitudinal data system allows you to track students year over year and within the school year, so you can demonstrate immediate and long-term gains in achievement at the same time.

4

How do you track growth?With increasing pressure on schools and districts across the country to provide data showing student growth, you need a way to reliably monitor each student’s progress across the entire K–12 continuum. That’s why the robust vertical scale underlying the Iowa Assessments facilitates an enhanced Growth Model.

This instrument answers the needs of schools like yours—providing better ways to measure achievement and impact instruction to help students prepare for college and careers. The Iowa Assessments also may be used within an RtI- (Response to Intervention) programas a reliable and valid Universal Screener.

Learning is a continuous process, and individuals learn incrementally and at different rates. When we measure progress, we avoid applying arbitrary labels to students or placing them in buckets. Instead, by monitoring growth, we focus on setting long-term goals and understanding student progress towards college and career readiness. Using growth data can help you plan instruction and implement swift curriculum changes based on what students know and can do.

Features and Benefits

• Concordance to existing assessment data to facilitate longitudinal trend

• Accurate longitudinal data reporting within and across school years

• A vertical scale that provides a reliable and consistent measure of growth

• Standard score growth continuum that provides more accurate data than other competing instruments

• Enhanced tools for differentiation that accurately assess the growth of low- and high-performing students

• Universal Screening that can be used within the Response to Intervention framework

5

Track growth over time for groups or individuals with profile reports.

See essential scores and information about a student’s performance

6

AssessmentsIowa

TM

Form G Scope & Sequencefor Complete and Core BatteriesThe Scope and Sequence describes each level and subtest, provides the testing times, and lists the number of questions for each subtest and by level. Administration times are approximate for Levels 5-8 and are expected to vary with different test administrators and groups of students. Allow enough time so most students can finish each test. Administration for Levels 9–14 is timed, and the testing times listed correspond to the standard time limits.

Levels 5–6 (Grades K–1) Testing Times

TestNumber of Items

Approximate Working Time (minutes)

Level 5 Level 6 Level 5 Level 6

Vocabulary 23 27 20 20

Word Analysis

29 33 20 20Phonological Awareness & Decoding

Identifying & Analyzing Word Parts

Listening

23 27 30 30Literal Comprehension

Inferential Comprehension

Language

27 31 25 25

Verb Tense

Classification

Singular-Plural Usage

Operational Language

Spatial-Directional Language

Prepositions to Denote Relationships

Comparative & Superlative Adjectives

Math

27 35 25 25

Number Sense & Operations

Algebraic Patterns & Connections

Geometry

Measurement

Reading (Parts I and II)

17 34 30 40Words

Comprehension

TOTALS— COMPLETE 146 187 2 h. 30 min. 2 h. 40 min.

7

Levels 7–8 (Grades 1–3) Testing Times

Test

Number of ItemsApproximate Working

Time (minutes)

Level 7 (Grades 1–2)




• Vocabulary 26 26 15 15

• Word Analysis

32 33 15 15Phonological Awareness & Decoding


• Reading (Parts I and II)

35

38

45

45

Literary Text

Informational Text

Explicit Meaning

Implicit Meaning

Key Ideas

Vocabulary – –

Author’s Craft – –

• Listening

27 27 25 25Literal Comprehension


• Language

34 42 25 25

Spelling

Capitalization

Punctuation

Written Expression

• Math (Parts I and II)

41 46 50 50



Data Analysis, Probability, & Statistics

Geometry

Measurement

• Computation25 27 25 25

Compute with Whole Numbers

Social Studies

29 29 25 25

History

Geography

Economics

Civics & Government

Science

29 29 25 25Life Science

Earth & Space Science

Physical Science

TOTALS— COMPLETE 278 297 4 h. 10 min. 4 h. 10 min.

TOTALS—CORE 220 239 3 h. 20 min. 3 h. 20 min.

• Core Battery

8

Levels 9–14 (Grades 3–8) Testing Times

Test

Number of Items Testing Time

(minutes)Level 9

(Grade 3)Level 10 (Grade 4)

Level 11 (Grade 5)

Level 12 (Grade 6)

Level 13 (Grade 7)

Level 14 (Grade 8)

• Reading1

41 42 43 44 45 46 30 + 30

Literary Text

Informational Text

Vocabulary

Explicit Meaning

Implicit Meaning

Key Ideas

Author’s Craft

• Written Expression

35 38 40 43 45 48 50

Usage & Grammar

Sentence Structure

Planning & Organization

Appropriate Expression

• Math1

50 55 60 65 70 75 30 + 30




Geometry

Measurement

Science

30 34 37 39 41 43 35Life Science


Physical Science

Social Studies

30 34 37 39 41 43 35

History

Geography

Economics

Civics & Government

• Vocabulary 29 34 37 39 41 42 15

• Spelling 24 27 30 32 34 35 10

• Capitalization 20 22 24 25 27 29 10

• Punctuation 20 22 24 25 27 29 10

• Computation

25 27 29 30 31 32 20

Compute with Whole Numbers

Compute with Fractions

Compute with Decimals

Algebraic Manipulations

• Word Analysis2

33 – – – – – 20Phonological Awareness & Decoding


• Listening2

28 – – – – – 25Literal Comprehension


TOTAL ITEMS—COMPLETE 365 335 361 381 402 422 –

TOTAL TIME—COMPLETE 5 h. 40 min. 4 h. 55 min. 4 h. 55 min. 4 h. 55 min. 4 h. 55 min. 4 h. 55 min. –

TOTAL ITEMS— CORE 305 267 287 303 320 336 –

TOTAL TIME— CORE 4 h. 30 min. 3 h. 45 min. 3 h. 45 min. 3 h. 45 min. 3 h. 45 min. 3 h. 45 min. –

1 This test is administered in two parts.2 This test is read aloud by the test administrator. The time given is approximate.

• Core Battery

9• Core Battery

Levels 15–17/18 (Grades 9–12) Testing Times

Test

Number of ItemsTesting Time

(minutes)Level 15 (Grade 9)

Level 16 (Grade 10)

Level 17/18 (Grades 11/12)

• Reading

40 40 40 40

Literary Text

Informational Text

Vocabulary

Explicit Meaning

Implicit Meaning

Key Ideas

Author’s Craft

• Written Expression

54 54 54 40

Usage & Grammar

Sentence Structure

Planning & Organization

Appropriate Expression

Mechanics

• Math

40 40 40 40




Geometry

Measurement

Science

48 48 48 40Life Science


Physical Science

Social Studies

50 50 50 40

History

Geography

Economics

Civics & Government

• Vocabulary 40 40 40 15

• Computation

30 30 30 20

Integers

Decimals/Percents

Fractions

Algebraic Manipulations

TOTAL ITEMS—COMPLETE 302 302 302 –

TOTAL TIME—COMPLETE 3 h. 55 min. 3 h. 55 min. 3 h. 55 min. –

TOTAL ITEMS—CORE 204 204 204 –

TOTAL TIME—CORE 2 h. 35 min. 2 h. 35 min. 2 h. 35 min. –

Form E Complete/Core Testing Times:High School (Grades 9-12)

10

GRADE FALL MIDYEAR SPRING

K – 5 5–6

1 6 6–7 7

2 7 8 8

3 8–9 9 9

4 10 10 10

5 11 11 11

6 12 12 12

7 13 13 13

8 14 14 14

9 14–15 14–15 14–15

10 16 16 16

11 17/18 17/18 17/18

12 17/18 17/18 17/18

Recommended Test Levels by Testing Season

DataManager is your online resource for streamlining management of your assessment program using the Iowa Assessments, Cognitive Abilities Test™ (CogAT®), and Riverside Interim Assessments.

Streamline Your Test Management

DATAMANAGER

Preparing for Testing• Planning and Implementation Guide• Customizable letter to families about testing• Step-by-step guidance through ancillaries

Reporting• Delivers web-based reports• Combines results from different assessments• Enables disaggregation of results• Enables local printing of reports• Allows exporting of reports and student testing data

Interpreting Results• Provides guidance through digital resources • Links to next steps, such as making adjustments to curriculum

or grouping learners• Enables targeted instruction via Lexile and Quantile measures

DataManager can help you in every phase of assessment—from preparing to test to interpreting the results.DataManager supports your school system’s comprehensive, balanced assessment programby tracking multiple data points to promote and enhance student learning throughout the year.

DataManager is your single tool to putthe power of assessment in your hands—before, during, and after testing.

11

ACT® is a registered trademark of ACT, Inc. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has no affiliation with ACT, Inc. and our products are not approved or endorsed by ACT, Inc. SAT® is a registered trademark of the College Entrance Examination Board, which was not

involved in the production of, and does not endorse, these products. Lexile® is a trademark of MetaMetrics, Inc., and is registered in the United States and abroad. Quantile® and Lexile® are registered trademarks of MetaMetrics, Inc. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt®, Cognitive

Abilities Test™, CogAT®, Logramos®, and Iowa AssessmentsTM are trademarks or registered trademarks of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved. 12/17 Pro-WF324779

Connect with us:

Contact ACSI Member Care at 800.367.0798 or [email protected] visit www.purposefuldesign.com and select Assessment Support to learn more.

AssessmentsIowa

TM

Documents

Assess Less. Measure More. - Amazon S3Comparative & Superlative Adjectives Math 27 35 25 25 Number Sense & Operations Algebraic Patterns & Connections Geometry Measurement Reading