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Parents providing home-based instruction for their children may use any
standardized achievement test that has been evaluated by Buros Institute
of Mental Measurements (www.unl.edu/buros),
the test evaluation organization recognized by the State Board of Education
under WAC
180-52-070.
Testing is one of
two options for meeting the statutory annual assessment requirement:
[See RCW
28A.200.010].
The tests listed below
are examples of the kinds of tests parents may use.
-NOT AN ALL INCLUSIVE LIST-
Revised March
2006
Formal
Test Name
|
Formal
Test Publisher
|
Brigance |
Curriculum Associates,
Inc. |
California Achievement
Tests, Fifth Edition (CAT/5) |
CTB/McGraw-Hill |
California Diagnostic
Tests (CDT) |
CTB/McGraw-Hill |
Comprehensive Tests of
Basic Skills (CTBS) |
CTB/McGraw-Hill |
Iowa Tests of Basic Skills
(ITBS) |
Riverside Publishing
Company |
Iowa Tests of Educational
Development
(ITED)
|
Riverside Publishing Company |
Metropolitan Achievement
Tests, Seventh Edition (MAT/7) |
Harcourt Educational Measurement |
Peabody Individual Achievement
Test (PIAT) |
American Guidance Service,
Inc. |
Stanford Achievement Tests
(SAT) |
Harcourt Educational Measurement |
Stanford Early Achievement
Test (SEAT) |
Psychological Corporation |
Tests of Achievement and
Proficiency
(TAP)
|
Riverside Publishing Company |
TerraNova |
CTB/McGraw-Hill |
American College Testing
(ACT) |
American College Testing,
Inc. |
PLAN (pre-ACT) |
American College Testing,
Inc. |
Scholastic
Aptitude Test I: Reasoning (SAT) |
The College Board |
Preliminary Scholastic
Achievement Test (PSAT) |
The College Board |
