IOWA ASSESSMENT TESTING for Grades 2-8
- What
- IOWA ASSESSMENT TESTING for Grades 2-8
- When
- 3/5/2021, 8:00 AM – 3:00 PM
This week is Iowa Assessment Week for our students in grades 2-8. The data from these tests is important for sustaining good academic programs and measuring your child’s academic growth. Please make every effort to have your children in school for the testing. While we do have “make-up” days the following week, the conditions aren’t as optimal as the regularly scheduled testing week.
The 5.5 hour Iowa Assessment is spread out over the week with multiple breaks between the individual sub-tests, which range from 10 to 40 minutes in length. Please encourage your children to read carefully, to take the full amount of time given, and to carefully check their work if they finish early.
Testing week can be an anxious time for students, as their regular schedule is interrupted and the school day as they know it changes. You can help our child/ren alleviate some of this anxiety by doing the following:
- Talk to your child/ren about testing week and reassure them in a positive way. We have renamed this week a “Celebration of Learning Week” by “Showing What You Know!”
- Remain calm, and discuss the confidence you have in your children.
- Give your child/ren a nutritious breakfast each day of the test, but don’t make an issue if they refuse to eat.
- Don’t argue or have an upsetting conversation the mornings of testing. Try to keep the morning routine the same.
- Make sure your child/ren gets a good night sleep each night.
- Celebrate the end of testing week for yourself and your child/ren.
- It is important to note that your child/ren will only gain anxiety and apprehension if they try studying for these tests. For this reason, St. Thomas More School has a NO HOMEWORK policy for this week for all those taking the test. While a “No Homework policy” exists, there may be some additional testing for normal classwork occurring for which parents and students should be prepared.