The Instruments

The Academic Competence Evaluation Scales are brief questionnaires designed to assess important skills, attitudes, and behaviors contributing to school success. There are teacher, student, and college versions of the ACES, and each assesses a student’s academic skills and academic enablers. Academic skills include reading and language, mathematics, and critical thinking. Academic enablers include motivation, engagement, study skills, and interpersonal skills. The ACES assist with problem identification, intervention planning, and evaluation for students experiencing academic difficulty in K-12 or post-secondary settings. Each form requires less than 15 minutes to complete and can be scored quickly by hand.

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The aimswebPlus math assessments are sold by Pearson. These online assessments include curriculum-based measures (CBM) and a standards-based assessment designed for screening,progress monitoring, and evaluation of intervention.

The Coding Readiness Assessment (CRA) is a 21-item assessment of computational thinking and coding readiness for 3-5 year olds. It assesses constructs like sequences, patterns, looping, debugging, modeling, modularity, and spatial reasoning. Because it doesn't rely on actual coding skills, but rather tasks that are analogous to coding activities, it is appropriate for young children. In addition, it does not rely on written language but rather consists of an adult asking questions about images that the child sees. This assessment expands on the TechCheck-PreK assessment (Relkin, 2022).

The GMADE (Group Mathematics Assessment and Diagnostic Evaluation) is a diagnostic mathematics test sold by Pearson that measures individual student skills in the main areas of math. The assesmsent aligns with standards by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) and can be used for growth monitoring, strengths and areas for improvement identification, and student placement.

The HMH Math Inventory is an assessment that can be used for universal screening and growth monitoring. The adaptive, computer-based test can be taken three to five times per year. The HMH Math Inventory was developed with guidance from the National Math Panel, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, and was developed to align with the Common Core State Standards.

Iowa Assessments, Forms E and F from Iowa Testing Programs at the University of Iowa measure student achievement and growth as defined by the Iowa Core. The tests are sold outside of Iowa by Riverside Insights.

ISIP Math is a computer-adaptive test of foundational math skills designed for progress monitoring.

The KTEA-3 is an individually adminstered battery sold by Pearson. Within the battery is an assessment developed to be aligned with the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics standards and also mapped to the Common Core State Standards.

The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, or PARCC, mathematics assessments are assessments based on the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). The PARCC mathematics assessments include a variety of tasks that measure students' learning of the mathematical content and practice standards for their grade level or course of study. As of 2020, 2 states, Washington D.C., the Department of Defense Education Activity, and the Bureau of Indian Education were using PARCC.

The Small Group Work Survey is a short student survey used to understand how small-group activities are working during math lessons. It is part of the broader PMR suite of practical measurement tools designed to support continuous instructional improvement, not formal evaluation. The survey is typically given at the end of a lesson where students worked in groups.

The Practical Measures, Routines & Representations (PMR²) Whole Class Discussion Survey is a short student survey to gather quick feedback about what happens during a whole-class discussion in mathematics. It is part of the PMR² suite of tools developed by researchers to support continuous instructional improvement, not formal teacher evaluation.

SAT10 wasdeveloped to align with state standardsand the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP). The standardized assessment can help monitor students' progress and also identify strengths and areas in need of support for placement and instructional planning. Aprenda-3 is the Spanish assessment modeled off of the Stanford 10 that allows educators to test Spanish-speaking students in their native language.

TerraNova 3 from Data Recognition Corporation includes a range ofassessment products that measure math knowledge and skills, including online formats and brief test forms. The testing system was developed to be aligned to NCTM standards. TerraNova is available in Spanish as SUPERA.

The TOMA-3 is an assessmentdesigned to identify, describe, and quantify mathematical deficits in school-age children. In addition to the math assessment, there are also measures of attitudes toward math available.

The Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) math assessmentis an international standardized test that measures math reasoning and problem solving in algebra, geometry, data analysis, and probability.TIMSS is in the process of transitioning to a digitally-based assessment called eTIMSS.

Wechsler Individual Achievement Test - Fourth Edition (WIAT-4) is an individually administered achievement test sold by Pearson for use in a variety of clinical, education, and research settings.

The Wide Range Achievement Test, Fifth Edition (WRAT5) is an assessment sold by Pearson that measures math skills, in addition to reading and spelling, and helps identify possible learning disabilities.

Woodcock-Johnson IV, sold by Riverside Insights, includes individually-adminstered tests of achievement designedtomeasure strengths and weaknesses and diagnose learning abilities.In addition to mathematics, the WJ IV assesses oral language, reading, and writing.