1. Trinity Catholic School is to teach the Catholic faith
The mission of
Trinity Catholic School
is to teach
the Catholic faith
within a challenging academic curriculum, laying the foundation
for all students to grow
in Christian
maturity, integrity
and knowledge.

2. Trinity Catholic School IOWA Assessments Test Results Spring 2017

3. Why does Trinity use IOWA Assessment?
Why does Trinity use IOWA Assessments?
To obtain information that can support instructional decisions made by teachers in the classroom,
To provide information to students and their parents for monitoring the student’s growth from grade to grade, and
To examine the yearly progress of grade groups as they pass through Trinity’s curriculum.

4. Why does Trinity use IOWA Assessment?
IOWA Assessments: A norm referenced test
At each grade level, Riverside Publishing uses a nationwide norm-referenced group of approximately 300,000 students.
Norm-referenced is simply a comparison test. When your child earns a score at the 76th percentile, this indicates that he or she tested better than 76% of those 300,000 students in the same grade.
The ITBS is a norm-referenced test. A student taking this test is NOT expected to know every answer.

5. Why does Trinity use IOWA Assessment?
BELL CURVE
Why does Trinity use IOWA Assessment?
1-24
25-49
50-74
75-99
Iowa Assessments are designed to produce results that fall on the bell curve, so that most students will score between the 40th and the 60th percentile. Students with abilities well above or well below grade level can be identified.

6. Why does Trinity use IOWA Assessment?
What is a Grade Level Equivalent?
Grade Equivalents are the preferred type of score to monitor and estimating growth.
Average growth is 1.0 or one year (1 yr.=10 months)
A grade equivalent is a number that describes a student’s location on an achievement continuum. The continuum is a number line that shows the lowest level of knowledge or skill on one end (lowest numbers) and the highest level of development on the other end (highest numbers). The GE is a decimal number that describes performance in terms of grade level and months.
For example, if a sixth-grade student obtains a GE of 7.8 on the Vocabulary test, her score is like the one a typical student at the end of the eighth month of seventh grade would likely get on that same Vocabulary test. The GE corresponding to a given raw score on any test indicates the grade level at which the typical student has obtained this raw score. The digits to the left of the decimal point represent the grade and those to the right represent the month within that grade.

7. N.P.R. Average Comparisons

8. Whole School G.E. Averages

9. Presidents Education Award for Academic Excellence
Duke TIP
The Duke University Talent Identification Program recognizes students with high levels of achievement on the Iowa Assessments.
Current 6th grade – 40% qualified for Duke TIP, with a 95% NPR, or higher.
Current 7th grade students that qualified last year, and took the SAT and/or ACT, received State and Grand Recognition.
3 students received State Recognition
Presidents Education Award for Academic Excellence
Current 8th grade – 41% qualified with a 3.5 G.P.A. and an 85% NPR, or higher.