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Standardized Testing

Assignments, assessments, and grades provide valuable feedback about what a student is learning and how they are progressing - over the course of a school year and also from year to year.  With this information, teachers and administrators can take corrective measures, if necessary, to ensure that students are provided with foundational skills and knowledge that help prepare them for future success in school and beyond.

The Brandywine School District uses the following tests to evaluate student and teacher performance.
  • NWEA MAP: MAP Growth is an assessment for measuring achievement and growth in K–10 math, reading and Spanish language. It provides teachers with evidence to help inform instructional strategies regardless of how far students are above or below grade level. (More information)
  • Smarter Balanced Math & ELA:  Students in grades 3-8 take these assessments at the end of the school year to assess their proficiency in ELA & Math. (More information)
  • DeSSA Science: Once in each grade band, students take an assessment covering science standards for that grade band or course. (More information)
  • DeSSA Social Studies: Students in grades 4-8 take 2 to 3 smaller tests throughout the year that are embedded in instruction and given at the end of each unit. Students in grade 11 take one end of year assessment covering high school social studies standards. (More information)
  • DeSSA Alt: Students with significant disabilities take a test aligned to alternate standards in Math, ELA and Science. This test is taken in lieu of Smarter Balanced, SAT or DeSSA Science. (More information)
  • ACCESS: ACCESS testing measures English Language proficiency growth for our multilingual learners and identifies their exit from MLL status. (More information)
  • STAMP: Students in immersion programs and world language classes measure their progress in language acquisition using the STAMP test.  (More information)
  • NAEP: Administered every other year to a sample of students and schools in grades 4 and 8, this national assessment is used to rank state proficiency in ELA & Math on the Nation’s Report Card. (More information)
 
High School Only
  • Advanced Placement (AP): High School students who have taken college-level AP courses are encouraged to take the course’s AP test.  Scores on these tests help university advisors decide whether a student may be exempt from taking that course in college. (More information)
  • International Baccalaureate (IB): Students who are enrolled in the IB program at Talley Middle School and Mt. Pleasant High School take tests that certify them in the IB curriculum.  These tests are given in 5th, 8th and 12th grade. (More information)
  • SAT/PSAT:  Students who are applying to colleges know all about the SAT/PSAT, but it is more than just an indicator of college readiness.  In BSD these tests are given free to all high school students to measure student learning along with college and career readiness. The PSAT is given to 9th and 10th grade and the SAT is given to 11th grade students. (More information)