Stanines, Percentiles, and Freedom

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....
Preparing for Testing

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...

New Iowa – What’s Ahead?

What to Expect From the New Iowa Assessments™ Test CHEWV’s annual testing program is in full swing. Registration is open until February 5, and tests will be administered between March 7 and April 1. This year, we have been given the opportunity to begin...