Understanding Tests & Assessments

Parenting Corner – Aga Khan Education Board (Feb 2024)

Welcome to Parenting Corner! Each edition will focus on a topic of the month and resources for you and your child. Stay tuned for book recommendations and ways to keep your child engaged at home.

Understanding Tests & Assessments

Types of Assessments & Benefits
Tests or assessments are ways to measure what a child has learned. Assessments are not only taken in a quiet classroom with a paper and pencil, rather there are many different types of assessments teachers use day to day to understand a student’s progress. Examples include testing knowledge by observing their work, assigning a task to complete, or through a formal test or quiz. Schools follow a list of standards students should learn each year across all subjects, and they test students to measure their learning accordingly. Here are the types of assessments you may see.

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Action for families: Check today if your child is at grade level
As parents and caregivers, you can also play an active role in assessing reading and math levels to provide additional support to your child. Your understanding on their progress can help create a partnership with the teacher and help bridge gaps in your child’s learning. This can also help you create opportunities to challenge children to reach their full potential.

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Assessing your child’s development holistically
Schools don’t only test achievement in reading, math, or science but also follow progress on a student’s social, emotional and physical growth. As parents, we can use everyday observations to learn more about our children. Based on your child’s age, they should be meeting specific targets or milestones in the four areas described below. Assessing your child through observation in these four areas can help you better understand your child’s development and support them where needed.

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Additional Resources

Academic Standards in Schools
- Common Core standards
- Texas state standards

How parents & families can read a rubric

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Stay Engaged at Home

Here are some activities you can engage in with your child this month to ease any stress related to standardized testing.

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Book Nook

Theme of the Month: This month we will focus on building a connection with the characters of the book. This can be done by finding a personal connection to what the characters are facing in the book and learning from the theme.

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