Family PortalFamily PortalThere are four levels that describe how your child performed on the test. Achievement levels represent levels of mastery with respect to the Arkansas Academic Standards for the ATLAS 3-10 ELA, math, and science general assessment.
These descriptors are a summary of what students within each achievement level are expected to know and be able to do.
The association between an item on a test and a content standard that identifies which skill or knowledge area that item is intended to measure.
An online test consisting of one or more items that assess a student's skills or area of knowledge. Also known as a test.
Reports available in the Family Portal system that provide detailed student performance data for an individual test taken by an individual student.
Arkansas Teaching, Learning and Assessment System
Beginning-Of-Year
An education company devoted to student assessment. Owned by Cambium Learning Group.
May refer to either of two things:
-A category of content standards that measure a related set of skills or knowledge areas.
-A set of items or interactions within a single item that engages students in activity aligned to a specific standard.
On a student's Individual Student Report (ISR), a student's score is compared to the average score of students who took the same ATLAS assessment within a school, district or the state.
The level of cognitive demand expected for a student to correctly answer a test item.
An assessment that adjusts the difficulty of questions and adapts to a student's responses to measure their content proficiency.
A code applied in place of a score on an assessment report when a student's response to a test item cannot be scored. Condition Codes are usually assigned to a student's Writing response.
The set of concepts or skills that a test is intended to measure, such as reading ability or writing ability.
An item type that requires a student to respond with a written, pictorial, or graphic answer.
Used to refer to the items and stimuli within a test, the reading passage or other media type within a stimulus, and the prompt and response area within an item.
The skill or area of knowledge that a test item is intended to measure.
A specific point on a test's score scale that distinguishes between two performance levels. Scores at or above that point are interpreted to mean something different from scores below that point. Cut scores can determine if a student's test score and performance is classified into one of four performance levels.
A type of scoring criterion in an item's rubric.
A category of content standards that measure a related set of skills or knowledge areas.
An item type that requires students to respond by dragging a text or image object onto specified locations in a grid or image.
An end-of-course assessment measures mastery of content in a particular course. In Arkansas, end-of-course assessments are administered at the end of the school year during the Arkansas summative testing window for Algebra I, Geometry and Biology.
A subject area for assessments.
A student whose native language is not English and who has difficulty speaking, reading, writing, or understanding the English language.
End-Of-Year
An item type that allows students to respond by clicking mathematical characters that appear in an on-screen keypad.
Typically referred to as standard error of measurement. The amount or difference between a student’s actual score and the theoretical true score. This also describes the degree of inherent imprecision in student performance reports based on test content, administration, scoring, or examinee conditions. A student's score is best interpreted when recognizing that the student's knowledge and skills fall within a score range and not just a precise number.
An element included in an item's scoring rubric that provides an example of a student response that would earn a certain number of points.
The rules that determine how long it takes a test opportunity to expire when a student starts it without completing it. Students cannot make any additional changes to a test opportunity once it expires.
An item type that requires students to respond by typing a longer text response, such as an essay.
A federal law that protects students' privacy regarding education records and also provides parents with rights regarding their children's education records.
A compilation of test items and/or stimuli that make up the segments of an assessment. Also known as a test form.
The grade in which a student is enrolled.
An item type that requires students to respond by adjusting the heights or lengths of bars in a graph.
A type of item interaction that can offer several different ways for the student to interact with a grid area, such as dragging an object onto the grid canvas or plotting points on a graph.
The process of manually scoring test items, which may be performed by educators in the Reporting system.
An item type that requires students to respond by clicking regions on an image, such as countries on a map.
An item type that requires students to click words or phrases in a section of text.
A report that provides detailed information about an individual student's performance on an individual test.
A written statement for each child with a disability that is developed, reviewed and revised to reflect the decisions made by an interdisciplinary team, including the parent and student when appropriate.
A component of a test item that students can interact with, such as a list of options they can select from or a text box in which they type a response. A test item may include one or more individual interactions.
A testing incident created in TIDE that eliminates the test opportunity, which results in the student having no further opportunities for the test.
A scored question, exercise, or task on a test that students interact with to enter a response.
A type of report available in the Reporting system that shows a comparison of assessment results for a particular student or group of students at two or more points in time.
Item scoring performed automatically by a computer.
A type of written response item that requires scoring logic or a machine rubric to score.
An item type that requires students to respond by matching answer options together.
The mobile version of CAI's Secure Browser. It is used on iPads (iPadOS and iOS) and Chromebooks.
Middle-Of-Year
An item type that requires students to select a single answer from a list of options.
An item type that requires students to select one or more answer options from a list of options.
In student testing, this term refers to live testing, as distinct from practice testing. An operational assessment is one that is developed and administered at a specified time and whose scoring results are used for the purpose of meeting local, state, and/or federal requirements.
An individual chance for a student to attempt a test. A test may allow for one or more opportunities per eligible student.
The response choices to an item's stem from which students select an answer.
Information that could identify an individual person, such as a student's name and date of birth.
A website that serves as a one-stop shop for educators involved in the online assessment process, providing access to CAI systems, training sites, tutorials, and other resources.
The component of an item that provides students with the instructions or question they must respond to.
A topic or skill area within a test; content areas into which the tested student's knowledge and skills are grouped. Some reports may allow parents to view performance data by reporting category.
These descriptors are a summary of what students within each reporting category are expected to know and be able to do.
A set of criteria explaining how an item should be scored and what precisely merits a full- or partial-credit response. The rubric may also include an exemplar of a valid response.
A scale score is used to report your student's results on the test as a whole. An overall score, which are statistically converted scores using the number of items students answer correctly and the difficulty of the items presented, is calculated and converted to a scale score in order to determine your student's performance level. Scale scores can be compared over multiple test administrations.
A set of criteria explaining how an item should be scored and what precisely merits a full- or partial-credit response. The rubric may also include an exemplar of a valid response.
The CAI browser through which all operational tests are administered. The Secure Browser provides a secure and user-friendly environment for students to complete tests while preventing access to any prohibited tools or applications.
An item type that requires students to respond by typing a short response in a text box.
An item type that requires students to set the parameters of an interactive animation and extrapolate data in a table.
A reporting category or topic by which items are organized on a test, based upon the standards measured.
The skills or areas of knowledge that a test is intended to measure.
Typically referred to as standard error of measurement. The amount or difference between a student’s actual score and the theoretical true score. This also describes the degree of inherent imprecision in student performance reports based on test content, administration, scoring, or examinee conditions. A student's score is best interpreted when recognizing that the student's knowledge and skills fall within a score range and not just a precise number.
The process that determines what each performance level minimum and maximum score will be. Standard setting is based on input from educators, community and business leaders, and the public, as well as the state’s education leadership.
A unique number assigned to a student for identification purposes.
The question or prompt in a test item to which the students must respond.
A reading passage or multimedia resource in a test that students must review in order to respond to a set of associated items.
The component of the Test Delivery System (TDS) where students can take tests. Both practice and operational Student Testing Sites are available. The operational site is also known as the Secure Browser.
A subset of content knowledge and skills within a subject.
An item type that requires students to respond by entering information in a table.
An item type that requires students to respond by clicking checkboxes in the cells of a table to match together terms that appear in the column and row headers.
Test items that take advantage of the computer-based environment to present interactions and elicit responses in ways that may not be possible on a paper-based test.
A compilation of one or more test items and/or tasks that comprise the full test.
The name of an assessment as displayed in CAI systems.
An individual chance for a student to attempt a test. A test may allow for one or more opportunities per eligible student.
A section of a test. Tests may be divided into multiple segments based on the skills measured, types of tasks, and/or tools available in that section.
An event created by test administrators in the TA Site in which they select one or more tests and approve students to take those tests in the Student Testing Site.
The season and year in which the test was given to students (i.e., Spring 2024).
An item type that requires students to respond by dragging text elements into the blank spaces within a sentence or paragraph.
An item type that requires students to respond by typing a long answer in a text box.