New Year, New Way ... New Results
THE ACADEMIC CORNER
The motto for this school year at Washington Wilkes Middle School is "Standards-based Learning: New Year, A New Way…with New Results." In order to maintain a high standard of academic excellence, WWMS has administered the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS) this week. The test was administered to the 3rd, 5th, and 8th grades. The ITBS covers numerous areas of educational knowledge, including English language use, math concepts and problem solving, social studies, science, geography and map use, and source use. The test was designed by the University of Iowa's of Education, as part of a program to develop a series of nationally accepted standardized achievement tests and is based on over seventy years of on-going research. A nationally standardized test is a test that each test-taker is administered in the same way across a specified reference population (age groups, grade groups, etc.) Therefore, the score interpretations are based on a comparison of the test taker's performance to the performance of other students in the nation. The ITBS is a norm-referenced test because it compares students' abilities rather than to a criteria. The ITBS allows educators to get a look at the performance of their students in relation to the rest of the nation. A norm-referenced test is designed to highlight achievement differences between and among students.
The ITBS measures the skills and achievements of students from kindergarten through eighth grade and provides an in-depth measure of important educational objectives. It also yields reliable and comprehensive information both about the development of students' skills and about their ability to think critically. It measures students against their peers. The ITBS produces developmental standard scores and percentile ranks.
Washington Wilkes Middle School eighth grade teachers have been administering the test at the school. Each student has been encouraged to do their very best. The eighth grade teachers are continuing to implement the Georgia Performance Standards and are expecting the eighth graders to do well on the ITBS. Excellence without exceptions, which is what Washington Wilkes Middle School's faculty and students are expecting as their final results for the school year.
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