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Assessment Considerations

Assessment Considerations

by CHEWV | Jan 12, 2023 | Articles, Assessments, Featured Articles, Testing

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...

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Score Reports from CHEWV

Score Reports from CHEWV

by CHEWV | Jan 11, 2023 | Articles, Assessments, Testing

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...

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2023 CHEWV Testing Highlights

2023 CHEWV Testing Highlights

by CHEWV | Jan 11, 2023 | Articles, Featured Articles, Testing

Online testing has grown in popularity over the past few years - precipitating many changes in the testing world. One change is the online registration process used by test distributors. If you have tested with CHEWV for a while, you’ll notice that we no longer order...

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Family for Christmas

Family for Christmas

by Kelley Richman | Dec 5, 2022 | Articles, Encouragement

Three-year-old Elena’s brothers and sisters were arriving home one Wednesday night. I was trying to get her to sleep, but as soon as she saw the headlights coming up the driveway, she popped up and said, “Is that the Honda? My brovers an’ frwends are home!” Did she...

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Wrap-Up: Hebrew vs. Greek Education

Wrap-Up: Hebrew vs. Greek Education

by CHEWV | Nov 10, 2022 | Articles, Encouragement, Featured Articles, Hebrew vs. Greek Education

Come to Me all you who labor and I will give you rest.  The love of God, the love of God’s Word, and true discipleship are not meant to be a burden, but a joy.   To summarize Hebraic education, we will say that it is an all-the-time, God-centered, eternity-aware, and...

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It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

by CHEWV | Nov 10, 2022 | Articles

Aah, but maybe it shouldn't yet. Don’t let the store decorations, shopping advertisements, and social media posts entice you to skip over this beautiful season of Thankfulness.    Celebrate November! November brings Thanksgiving - a whole month to remind us that we...

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Elections, Legislative Sessions, & Other Civics Topics

Elections, Legislative Sessions, & Other Civics Topics

by CHEWV | Nov 10, 2022 | Articles, Legislative

In this brief piece we introduce important, inspiring, and easy-to-implement ideas. Most homeschoolers know that new legislation can affect educational freedom tremendously. After all, we gained the right to homeschool through valiant legislative effort back in 1986. ...

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Reading and Math: Fears and Tears

Reading and Math: Fears and Tears

by Fred Worth | Oct 13, 2022 | Articles, Struggling Learners

For my son, reading was a disaster that often had both him and my wife in tears. As it turns out, he didn’t read until he was 8 1/2 years old. Yes, that’s right. He wasn’t reading in kindergarten or first grade or second grade…   He now has a master’s degree in...

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Hebrew vs. Greek, Part 4

Hebrew vs. Greek, Part 4

by CHEWV | Oct 13, 2022 | Articles, Hebrew vs. Greek Education

We’ve already recounted many differences between the Hebrew and Greek ideas of Jesus’ day, alluding also to those who have influenced our own world.  Now we’ll look at two further distinctions. Knowledge vs. Wisdom/Form vs. Function The Hebrew Book of Proverbs puts...

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Greek vs. Hebrew Education, Part 3

Greek vs. Hebrew Education, Part 3

by CHEWV | Sep 8, 2022 | Articles

We ended Part 2 comparing an anthropocentric versus theocentric worldview.  Man-centered or God-centered.  Let’s move on to two other differences between the Hebrews and the Greeks. Monotheistic vs. Polytheistic Although Greeks were man-centered, they still served...

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Assessment Considerations

Assessment Considerations

Jan 12, 2023

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

Score Reports from CHEWV

Jan 11, 2023

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...

2023 CHEWV Testing Highlights

2023 CHEWV Testing Highlights

Jan 11, 2023

Online testing has grown in popularity over the past few years - precipitating many changes in the testing world. One change is the online registration process used by test distributors. If you have tested with CHEWV for a while, you’ll notice that we no longer order...

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