The majority of K-8 students in the state of Iowa participate in the Iowa Statewide Testing Program and take the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS), according to the website for The University of Iowa, the institution that administers the assessment.
In the North Winneshiek School, educators set specific goals with each student and emphasized the importance of doing well on the assessment, The Decorah Newspapers reported.
The No Child Left Behind Act states that students who achieve ITBS scores within the 41st to 99th percentile for reading comprehension, mathematics total and science are considered to be proficient, according to the news source. However, any pupils who score below this range are not.
In North Winneshiek, ITBS results revealed that students in grades three through eight performed the strongest in science, the news outlet reported, with mathematics and reading their next best subjects, respectively.
While Tim Dugger, the superintendent of the school, was quoted by the news source as saying that it gets harder for institutions to achieve adequate yearly progress (AYP) each year, the school managed to meet its AYP goals across several key areas. For instance, 84 percent of fifth graders were found to be proficient in reading.
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