The Iowa City Community School District recently released the results of the Iowa Assessments, which third- through eleventh-graders took last October, KCRG reported. Based on students’ scores, they did not perform as well as they had in previous years on the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS), which the Assessments have replaced.
According to the news source, the District typically ranked between the low 70s and 90s. However, the recent results reveal that student scores were mostly between the 50s and 70s. While these numbers are lower than usual, there are a few reasons why this may have occurred.
Pam Ehly, the District’s director of curriculum, told the news outlet that the fact that students were taking a new test was one reason why scores were low. Another was that the Iowa Assessments are normative, which means that test takers are compared to one another and responses are re-normed.
Overall, Ehly and the District’s superintendent are pleased with the first set of results from the Iowa Assessments.
The District’s third- through eleventh-graders were tested on a variety of subjects, such as reading, vocabulary, math, science, social studies and computation, according to The University of Iowa’s website.
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