{"id":22302,"date":"2019-09-21T17:28:35","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T17:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=22302"},"modified":"2019-09-21T17:28:35","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T17:28:35","slug":"isasp-test-reveals-proficiency-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/isasp-test-reveals-proficiency-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"ISASP test reveals proficiency profile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iowa.pearsonaccessnext.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>The Iowa Statewide Assessment of Student Progress<\/b><\/a><b> \u00a0or ISASP <\/b><b>test has been praised for successfully tracking students&#8217; <\/b><b>educational proficiency levels.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>ISASP test depicts a worrying trend in math<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>After the ISASP test was administered, the figures obtained showed that at least a quarter of the students had lower proficient levels in math, science, and language arts in comparison to their peers.\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the other hand, test makers asserted that the pilot version was meant in identifying weak areas necessitating amicable interventions for both teachers and students. They, therefore, believed that this objective was successfully attained.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Iowa\u2019s Director of Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessments, Diane Schumacher, stated that taking part in a test was one thing, but the fundamental aspect was getting authentic information from the test.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>ISASP test\u2019s proficiency results<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>Results gained from the ISASP test illustrated that for 11th-grade students, one (1) in four (4) of them was not yet proficient in English language arts. Moreover, one (1) in three (3) of them had low proficiency in math.<br \/>\n<b>According to Stephen Dunbar, the co-director for Iowa Testing Programs, students illustrated that the materials utilized in the ISASP test were doable and challenging. He, therefore, believed that their feedback correlated with the results demonstrated.\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nevertheless, Dunbar believed that an accurate picture of the ISASP test\u2019s applicability could be depicted in 2020 as students could see their improvement, whereas teachers could review their methodology and make necessary changes.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dunbar also praised the online approach adopted by the ISASP test as this was a considerable transformation as the world gears towards numerous technological innovations.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the other hand, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/drug-testing-growing-at-an-alarming-rate-in-school-districts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">drug testing has been increasing at an alarming rate in American school districts<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Notably, it can be viewed as a reaction to various developments, such as liberalization of marijuana laws and the thriving opioid epidemic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iowa Statewide Assessment of Student Progress \u00a0or ISASP test has been praised for successfully tracking students&#8217; educational proficiency levels.\u00a0 ISASP test depicts a worrying trend in math After the ISASP test was administered, the figures obtained showed that at least a quarter of the students had lower proficient levels in math, science, and language [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":22303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}