Interim Common Core Assessments

Many districts across the country are facing resource challenges in creating robust assessment forms to monitor student progress and achievement. To help overcome these resource challenges, Riverside is pleased to provide the Interim Common Core Assessment forms for Mathematics and English Language Arts/Literacy. These assessments are constructed using a parallel blueprint to show growth comparison and consist of three parallel assessments with 50-65 items per form for grades 2-12. All items within the assessment forms include item attributes such as cognitive difficulty levels and Bloom’s Taxonomy. In addition, the reading passages include Lexiles® and Flesch-Kincaid readability levels. These assessments can be administered as benchmark assessments for the fall, winter, and spring or as pre, mid, and post assessments to help monitor student progress.

The Iowa Tests®

The Iowa Tests represent a long history of innovation backed by psychometric rigor and validity. As educators’ needs evolve, so do The Iowa Tests. New reporting services are now available for the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills® (ITBS®), Iowa Tests of Educational Development® (ITED®) and Common Core Standards.

Beginning Fall of 2010, Riverside Publishing is pleased to offer Common Core Reporting for both Core and Complete battery applications of ITBS and ITED, Forms A and C, Grades 3 - 12. Educators have a choice of either ordering paper Common Core Domain reports for a small additional fee per student, or ordering Interactive Results Manager™, (iRM™), our web-based reporting service. Those ordering iRM will receive Common Core Domain Displays at no extra charge. These new reporting services will provide data on student achievement relative to the Common Core, and aid in making instructional decisions to support proficiency in these standards.

Assess2Know®

The Assess2Know item bank allows educators the ability to build quality assessments to measure student progress for grades two through high school. All Assess2Know items include attributes such as Bloom’s Taxonomy and cognitive difficulty levels as well as answer choice rationales based on common student misconceptions.



For more details, please contact a representative in your area.