Testing and Monitoring

Testing & Monitoring

Continuous evaluation of student learning is an integral part of the instructional process in the SABIS^® School Network. Frequent testing is conducted in order to evaluate student learning and permit timely, positive intervention. Testing students in this way has a number of very important advantages:

• Students are trained to perform well under the pressure of time and other constraints
• Students develop the ability to focus and to sustain concentration for increasingly long periods
• Feedback from testing allows close monitoring and follow-up

Diagnostic Tests

• Administered to all new incoming students in grades 1-3
• Academic “x-ray” to detect pre-existing gaps in knowledge
• Used to determine grade level placement
• Determine English/math level or  readiness to leave intensives classes

The SABIS Academic Monitoring System (AMS)^TM

• Begin in Grade 3 in both mathematics and English
• Check student learning and long-term retention
• Evaluate students' grasp of essential concepts
• Multiple-choice questions with answers recorded on “bubble sheets”
• Computer-scored
• Count for 20% of a student's total grade in a given subject

Periodic Exams

• Help to isolate “gaps” in student learning
• Monitor student’s mastery of essential concepts
• Serves as a re-teaching guide for teachers
• Tests concepts taught in the last three weeks
• Begin in grade one
• Results are sent home within 2 weeks of the test

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