Benchmark Assessments

This year Skills Iowa has made an addition to the very successful math benchmarks we introduced last year. We now have monthly reading assessments available at each grade level. These assessments are automatically assigned to your students, but they can only access them by entering a seven digit test code that will be provided to each of our schools by your project leader.

The schedule for math benchmarks is:

Test 1: August 31 - October 2

Test 2: January 4 - February 5

Test 3: April 26 - May 28

The reading assessments will be available on the first Monday of each month and will end on the last Friday of each month.

These assessments will do several things. They will generate data that will help your school in making program decisions and should help drive the instruction. They will also make test creation problems nonexistent since the tests are already created and assigned. Finally, they will allow your school to compare your results with other Skills Iowa schools who have taken the assessments.

To assign the assessment, your students will only have to enter the seven digit test code in the appropriate window on their Assessment Center page.

We encourage the use of these assessments to aid your school and your students.