Friday, January 29, 2010

Re: Math assessments for incoming 2-8 students

Please keep this thread public.
Deirdre

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Mitch Bostian <
mbostian@theberkeleyschool.org> wrote:

> All --
>
> Our admissions team is overhauling our admissions process and they are
> looking for a good in-house tool to assess prospective students' math
> ability and knowledge: something other (or in addition to) large-scale
> standardized tests, that could be administered in a relatively short (one
> hour) period of time.
>
> While I'm aware that this specific tool might not exist, I'd love to hear
> about math assessments that other K-8 schools use for incoming/prospective
> students -- or resources for finding same.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mitch
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