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Benchmark Assessments

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The State School Aid Act currently requires districts to administer benchmark assessments as follows:

  • Administer benchmark assessments to all students in K-8 in reading and mathematics
  • Administer benchmark assessments at least twice in the school year - within the first 9 weeks of school and again before the end of the school year
  • Benchmark assessment data are not included in accountability calculations or results
  • Benchmark assessment data are reported publicly in the aggregate
  • Individual district results are not identified in public reporting

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Communications

Benchmark Resources

Legislative Actions and Reports

MDE Approved Benchmark Assessment Providers

The  law is flexible and provides districts with several benchmark options. Districts options include choosing: 1) benchmark assessment(s) offered by an assessment provider on the MDE-approved provider list below, 2) benchmark assessment(s) or tool(s) that provide progress monitoring and enhanced diagnostics in reading and/or progress monitoring in mathematics, 3) local benchmark assessment (s), especially if used in previous years, or 4) any combination of the three prior choices.

 

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