Up-Coming Assessments

Chadron Intermediate School

Assessment Dates

NWEA (MAP’s)	Fall & Spring
ELPA21	February 8-March 18, 2016 (ELL Students only)
NeSA Writing	January 18-February 5, 2016
NeSA Reading	March 21-May 6, 2016
NeSA Math	March 21-May 6, 2016

NWEA (MAP’s) - Parent Toolkit

MAP® assessments are used to measure your student’s progress or growth in school. You may have a chart in your home on which you mark your child’s height at certain times, such as on his or her birthday. This is a growth chart. It shows how much he or she has grown from one year to the next. MAP® assessments do the same sort of thing, except they measure your child’s growth in mathematics, reading and language usage. The scale used to measure your child’s progress is called the RIT scale (Rasch unIT). The RIT scale is an equal-interval scale much like feet and inches on a yardstick. It is used to chart your child’s academic growth from year to year.

NeSA - Testing Brochure

Nebraska State Accountability - NeSA - includes all state tests: NeSA-W (Writing) NeSA-R (Reading) NeSA-M (Mathematics) NeSA-S (Science) NeSA-AA (Alternate Assessments in Reading, Mathematics, and Science).  As required in the amended Quality Education Accountability Act, 79-760, the Nebraska Department of Education has built state tests for the purposes of comparative accountability with the help of its partner, Data Recognition Corporation (DRC).

ELPA21 - Parent Guide

ELPA21-The goal is to provide assessments that best measure English language learners’ mastery of the communication demands of states’ rigorous academic standards.