Assessment
iReady
Grades K-6
Meet your students where they are and set high, achievable goals. Intuitive reports from i-Ready Diagnostic and i-Ready Standards Mastery offer the most accurate data possible by identifying each student’s strengths and learning priorities. Teachers use this data to make informed decisions about whole class, small group, or individual instruction, while administrators can use it to set intervention strategies and inform resource allocation decisions. With i-Ready Assessment, educators feel prepared, confident, and supported as they guide students toward continued academic growth.
Meet your students where they are and set high, achievable goals. Intuitive reports from i-Ready Diagnostic and i-Ready Standards Mastery offer the most accurate data possible by identifying each student’s strengths and learning priorities. Teachers use this data to make informed decisions about whole class, small group, or individual instruction, while administrators can use it to set intervention strategies and inform resource allocation decisions. With i-Ready Assessment, educators feel prepared, confident, and supported as they guide students toward continued academic growth.
Smarter Balanced Assessment (SBA)
Grades 3 - 6
The Smarter Balanced Assessments (SBA) in mathematics and English Language Arts/Literacy (ELA) are aligned to the Hawaii Common Core Standards, and designed to measure whether students are "on track" for readiness in college and/or career. These are mandatory assessments given to students in grades 3-6.
There are two SBA summative assessment components:
The Smarter Balanced Assessments (SBA) in mathematics and English Language Arts/Literacy (ELA) are aligned to the Hawaii Common Core Standards, and designed to measure whether students are "on track" for readiness in college and/or career. These are mandatory assessments given to students in grades 3-6.
There are two SBA summative assessment components:
- Computer Adaptive Test: An online adaptive test that provides an individualized assessment for each student.
- Performance Task: Tasks that challenge students to apply their knowledge and skills to respond to real-world problems. They can best be described as collections of questions and activities that are coherently connected to a single theme or scenario. They will be used to better measure capacities such as depth of understanding, research skills, and complex analysis, which cannot be adequately assessed with selected- or constructed-response items. Some performance task items can be scored by the computer; most will be manually scored.
- The test has been streamlined to include only the Computer Adaptive Test and the Writing Performance Task, and
- Test questions that took a long average time to complete were eliminated.
ONLINE PRACTICE TESTS: Students, teachers and parents nationwide have access to sets of assessment questions aligned to the Common Core that can be used for professional development and discussions with policymakers and other interested stakeholders. The practice tests are available at the AlohaHSAP portal. These are only a preview, and do not encompass the full range of content that students may encounter. Also, they are presented in a “fixed form” (i.e., not computer adaptive) and users will not receive reports or scores.
Science Assessment
Grade 5
The Hawaii State Assessment (HSA) in Science is administered to students in grade 4. It is a mandatory assessment as part of measuring science proficiency as part of the Strive HI Performance System for schools. The online assessments are adaptive tests which provide a more precise estimate of a studentʻs ability. The assessments include multiple-choice and constructed response items. Students must select one of the answer options for each multiple-choice item. They must type one or two short sentences or draw or move objects on the computer screen for various constructed-response items.
HSA Science training tests are available for students and families on the Aloha HSAP site: alohahsap.org/HSA/students
The Hawaii State Assessment (HSA) in Science is administered to students in grade 4. It is a mandatory assessment as part of measuring science proficiency as part of the Strive HI Performance System for schools. The online assessments are adaptive tests which provide a more precise estimate of a studentʻs ability. The assessments include multiple-choice and constructed response items. Students must select one of the answer options for each multiple-choice item. They must type one or two short sentences or draw or move objects on the computer screen for various constructed-response items.
HSA Science training tests are available for students and families on the Aloha HSAP site: alohahsap.org/HSA/students