The Iowa Test of Basic Skills® (ITBS®) is not just a test for the students from the state of Iowa. ITBS® is a nationally standardized achievement test for K-12 students. What that means is that you can compare your child’s scores to children across the country in Reading, Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies, and Science. The ITBS® (Iowa Test of Basic Skills®) is published by Riverside Publishing, a Houghton Mifflin Company.
The test is used by some states and a large number of private schools to measure grade- level performance and is often paired with an IQ instrument such as WISC®-IV or the CogAT® for entrance into gifted and talented programs.
The test is also being used by a growing number of homeschool families since the test is sufficient for state homeschool requirements. The Iowa can also confirm both a child’s learning progress and the teaching ability of the growing number of parents who choose to homeschool their children.
ITBS® scores are even accepted for eligibility into the National Honor Society. Students can practice for a test like the Iowa and when they do, the material they work with should reflect the format of the ITBS.
It is important that students have exposure to, and experience with, questions in the formats they will encounter on ITBS® and other assessments. Of course, endless drill and practice, especially when practice items are not connected to day-to-day work, can be counterproductive. Our products provide high-quality material, without being an actual practice test or pushing toward a drill-and-practice approach. See the table below.
Subject Area
How It Is Assessed
Vocabulary
Each multiple-choice question presents a word in a short phrase or sentence, and students select the answer that most nearly means the same as that word.
Reading Comprehension
Passages are fiction, fables, tales, poetry, interviews, diaries, biographical sketches, science and social studies materials. Approximately two-thirds of the questions require students to draw inferences or to generalize about what they have read.
Language Arts
K-1 students’ abilities to understand linguistic relationships -- how language is used to express ideas are measured. Questions are presented orally by the teacher, and students choose from a set of pictorial responses. For grade 2, a major portion of the test deals with skills in spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and skills in usage and expression in writing. For these tasks, the questions and response choices are read by the teacher as students read silently. A separate score is provided for spelling. For older students, separate scores are given for Capitalization, Punctuation, and Usage, and Expression.
Mathematics
For grades K-2: Beginning math concepts, problem solving, and math operations. Areas covered include numeration, number systems, geometry, measurement, and the use of addition and subtraction in word problems. Questions are presented orally, and response options are pictures or numerals. Older students have separate categories for Math Concepts and Estimation, Computation, and Problem Solving /Data Interpretation.
Science
Here there is emphasis on the methods and processes used in scientific work. In addition, many questions measure knowledge and skills in the areas of life science, earth and space sciences, and physical sciences. Students are required to use the concepts and principles of science to explain, infer, hypothesize, measure, and classify.
Test Prep Bundle and Suggested Test Prep Plan for ITBS®
We recommend working with the materials in the bundles over at least one month. Even though the bundles offer a lot of material, if you make working with the books part of the daily routine, you’ll be surprised how fast things will move.
It is also important to point out that all the titles have value well beyond the testing window. Each title will help enhance your child’s ability to reason and analyze, skills that are essential for success in many arenas.
In all of the Detective® books, Can You Find Me?, and Editor In Chief® Beginning, you will find well-structured multiple-choice items like you find in ITBS®. That is the correct response is clearly correct, and the distractors are plausible. For example, a distractor in a reading test should be text-based; a math distractor would be a common mathematical error, related to the problem. There should not be any outliers in the answer choices, e.g., an answer choice that is not text-based, a choice that is much longer or much shorter than the others, etc.
朋友女儿，小学二年级来美国，现在读初一。她发给我一个她女儿的ITBS成绩单，并问成绩怎么样。
我觉得还不错，我儿子在五年级时的成绩都是A，但不是95分以上的HIGH A，出来数学和科学是99以外。
ITBS是全国统考吧，大家给点儿意见。
万分感谢！！替朋友谢谢诸位牛爸牛妈！
The Iowa Test of Basic Skills® (ITBS®) is not just a test for the students from the state of Iowa. ITBS® is a nationally standardized achievement test for K-12 students. What that means is that you can compare your child’s scores to children across the country in Reading, Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies, and Science. The ITBS® (Iowa Test of Basic Skills®) is published by Riverside Publishing, a Houghton Mifflin Company.
The test is used by some states and a large number of private schools to measure grade- level performance and is often paired with an IQ instrument such as WISC®-IV or the CogAT® for entrance into gifted and talented programs.
The test is also being used by a growing number of homeschool families since the test is sufficient for state homeschool requirements. The Iowa can also confirm both a child’s learning progress and the teaching ability of the growing number of parents who choose to homeschool their children.
ITBS® scores are even accepted for eligibility into the National Honor Society. Students can practice for a test like the Iowa and when they do, the material they work with should reflect the format of the ITBS.
It is important that students have exposure to, and experience with, questions in the formats they will encounter on ITBS® and other assessments. Of course, endless drill and practice, especially when practice items are not connected to day-to-day work, can be counterproductive. Our products provide high-quality material, without being an actual practice test or pushing toward a drill-and-practice approach. See the table below.
For grade 2, a major portion of the test deals with skills in spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and skills in usage and expression in writing. For these tasks, the questions and response choices are read by the teacher as students read silently. A separate score is provided for spelling.
For older students, separate scores are given for Capitalization, Punctuation, and Usage, and Expression.
Older students have separate categories for Math Concepts and Estimation, Computation, and Problem Solving /Data Interpretation.
Test Prep Bundle and Suggested Test Prep Plan for ITBS®
We recommend working with the materials in the bundles over at least one month. Even though the bundles offer a lot of material, if you make working with the books part of the daily routine, you’ll be surprised how fast things will move.
It is also important to point out that all the titles have value well beyond the testing window. Each title will help enhance your child’s ability to reason and analyze, skills that are essential for success in many arenas.
In all of the Detective® books, Can You Find Me?, and Editor In Chief® Beginning, you will find well-structured multiple-choice items like you find in ITBS®. That is the correct response is clearly correct, and the distractors are plausible. For example, a distractor in a reading test should be text-based; a math distractor would be a common mathematical error, related to the problem. There should not be any outliers in the answer choices, e.g., an answer choice that is not text-based, a choice that is much longer or much shorter than the others, etc.
是统考还是自己去考？
俺州SAT倒数
我们这里公校都考ITBS。但只在一，三，五年级考。偶数年不考。
a score of 99 doesn't gurantee you anything either
朋友在国内，孩子自己从小学读到初一，哈哈
SSAT 99% 在私立高中的申请过程中有多大决定因素？
听说SAT1600在大学申请过程中很有意义）但为什么SSAT不一样呢？（属实吗？）