Assessment Considerations
Hmm...portfolio review or standardized testing? While a homeschool assessment must be done EVERY YEAR for students of compulsory age, which assessment option is best? The portfolio review option was hard-won back in 1994 to help special needs students and others for...
Score Reports from CHEWV
What score reports can you expect when you test with CHEWV? First, you will receive the complete IOWA score reports directly from BJUP. The Profile Narrative provides the National Percentile Rank (NPR) for each subtest along with the five scores that must be averaged...
Second Year to Struggle With Assessment Results?
Remember that the second consecutive year that a homeschooled student does not make “acceptable progress” on their annual homeschool assessment, the parent or instructor must submit “additional evidence” of appropriate instruction TO THE COUNTY. What is “acceptable...
End-of-Year Assessment Questions?
NO. Assessments are required every homeschooling year! Since this continues to be misunderstood, we appreciate all support group and social media influencers who pass the word. YES - IF they are for 3rd, 5th, 8th, and 11th graders, assessment results must be turned in...
Online Programs and the Annual Assessment
This year, many new homeschool families have opted to enroll in accredited online programs for their students. Unfortunately, many of these program directors have limited (or no) knowledge of the WV homeschool law because they are not WV-specific. Many offer...
Help! I Need a Portfolio Review This Year
But I've Never Done One Before! With all the changes COVID-19 has brought to our lives, you may be wondering how to get your annual homeschool assessments done. If you usually test your students, this year you may find yourself considering a portfolio review instead....
Assessment Considerations
While a homeschool assessment must be done every year for students of compulsory age, there are two main options to choose from: testing and portfolio review. The portfolio review option was hard-won in 1994 to help special needs students and others for whom testing...
Stanines, Percentiles, and Freedom
Learning. It’s not just for our students! There is certainly a learning curve for the newly revised law. This is a good thing, however, for through this law we have gained freedom! Nevertheless, with freedom comes responsibility - the responsibility to learn. Those...
Getting Ready to Test: K, 1st & 2nd
Aha! Testing time! Moms may worry about how their littles are going to do and so may head over to Barnes and Noble for the Test Prep workbook, but there are actually many (and perhaps even better) ways to prepare. In the earliest grades, many of the questions are read...
Preparing for Testing
It can be tempting to think that a test will accurately assess how we are doing as teachers and how our children are doing as students. But it can do neither. Standardized testing is only a tool to determine how our children compare academically with other students...