Assessment
Recent Newsletter Articles
How to Eat an Elephant: Increasing Your Students’ Success on the GED Extended Response
Do your students struggle with writing? This article gives tips and insights that the author gained by attending a session that focused on the GED extended response at this year's COABE conference. It includes links to resources that GED writing teachers will find helpful. Read More
Formative Assessment: Helping to See If Students “Get it”
What IS formative assessment? Read on for an introduction, and then register for an exciting ABE webinar opportunity on May 1! Read More
Important GED Accommodation Updates
GED Testing Service provides reasonable and appropriate accommodations to individuals with documented disabilities who demonstrate a need for accommodations. Read on to learn about new important updates to accommodation scheduling and testing options for GED students. Read More
CASAS GOALS: What Do We Know?
The new CASAS Reading GOALS test series has received a full 7-year approval from the U.S. Dept. of Education for use in the federal National Reporting System (NRS) at all levels of Adult Basic Education and Adult Secondary Education. What does this mean for ABE programs in Minnesota? Read More
TABE 11&12: What Do We Know?
Data Recognition Corporation announced that TABE 11&12 has been approved by the Department of Education’s National Reporting System (NRS) for a period of seven years. What does this mean for ABE programs in Minnesota? What do we know about TABE 11&12? Read More
Changes Are Coming to ACCUPLACER
Do you prepare learners to take ACCUPLACER®? If so, you may be interested in the changes that Minnesota State has planned for ACCUPLACER. Read More
Is It Time for an Assessment Training?
Training is essential to a quality assessment. Is it time for your staff to update their training? Should you wait for the new assessments to be approved and released? Read More
TABE/CASAS Accommodations
Does your student have dyslexia? Mental health challenges? A physical or chronic health condition? ADHD? If you answered yes to any of the above, the student may qualify for TABE/CASAS testing accommodations. Read More
GED Testing Accommodations
Do you suspect that your student has a specific learning disorder, such as dyslexia (reading) or dyscalculia (math)? Is your student in a position to take the GED? If you answered yes, your student may qualify for GED Testing Accommodations. Read More
The New Assessments: What Do We Know?
You may have heard that NRS approval for the tests we currently use for reporting purposes ends on June 30, 2017. The good news is that the NRS has extended the approval date for all currently approved assessments to February 2, 2019! Read More