Testing Calendar

Include on-going assessments, anecdotal records, quizzes, progress monitoring, and diagnostic tests, reviews, and observations in a classroom. Teachers use formative assessment to improve instructional methods and student feedback throughout the teaching and learning process. The results of formative assessments are used to modify and validate instruction.

Are used intermittently (weekly, bi-weekly, or beginning/end of trimester) to determine progress of skills and/or mastery of MN content standards. These may include, but are not limited to:

• Imagine It! reading, grades K-4
• Fluency reading/math facts, grades 1-4
• RIGGS orthography, phonics, grades K-3
• Heggerty phonemic awareness, grades K-1
• Writing, grades K-4
• Voyages grammar, grades K-4
• Wordly Wise Greek and Latin roots, grade 4
• Saxon math, grades K-4
• FastBridge reading/math, grades K-3
• Capti ReadBasix reading, grade 3-4 (*for readers who do not meet benchmark expectations)

Summative evaluations are used to determine if students have mastered specific competencies, identify instructional areas that need additional attention, and evaluate the effectiveness of instructional programs at the end of an academic year or at a pre-determined time. Summative assessments include statewide and national tests. The ACCESS and Minnesota Comprehensive Assessment (MCA) are administered once per year.

• ACCESS assessments for EL students, grades K-4
• Minnesota Comprehensive Assessment (MCA) reading/math, grades 3-4

MCA (Minnesota Comprehensive Assessment) is the MN state required assessment to meet state and federal legislative requirements.

State Required Testing: The ELL and MCA tests are Minnesota state required tests. Local Testing: The PSAT, ACT, and AP tests are not required tests but made available to students who wish to take them at the school’s location.