TESTING CALENDAR
2015-2016
Kindergarten Readiness Assessment (KRA)
The KRA provides a framework to assess what kindergarten students should know and be able
to do when they enter kindergarten to ensure they are ready to learn. It provides data that
teachers can use to individually instruct students and ensure quality early learning opportunities
for children by building on the strengths of every student.
October 5 – 30, 2015
Primary Reading Assessment – Grades Pre-K – 2
An assessment tool designed to help teachers determine a student’s reading performance in
terms of meeting benchmarks.
Fall
Winter
Spring
September 10 – October 7, 2015
January 4 – February 5, 2016
May 2 – June 6, 2016
MAP-P (Measure of Academic Progress in Primary Grades) Gr. K-2
• A computer-adaptive achievement test which assesses to student’s skill level on different
math concepts.
• Measures academic growth over time
• Administered to grades K-2 in the fall, winter, and spring.
• MAP-P results identify the skills and concepts students have learned and diagnose
instructional needs.
MAP-R (Measures of Academic Progress Assessment - Reading) Gr. 3-5
 A computer-adaptive achievement test which assesses to student’s skill level in the
different reading achievement areas.
 Measures academic growth over time
 Administered to grades 3-5 in the fall, winter, and spring.
 MAP-R results identify the skills and concepts students have learned and diagnose
instructional needs.
 Schools can use this info to implement interventions to increase the likelihood of
students’ scoring proficient or advanced on MSA.
Map-M (Measures of Academic Progress Assessment - Mathematics) Gr. 3-5
 A computer-adaptive mathematics assessment used to capture a student’s individual
mathematical proficiency within the content.
 Measures academic growth over time
 Administered to grades 3-5 in the fall, winter and spring
 MAP-M results identify the skills and concepts students have learned and diagnose
instructional needs
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Provides better descriptive feedback that will engage students to improve their
understanding of math contents
Fall Window
Winter Window
Spring Window
September 8 – October 30, 2015
January 5 – February 27, 2016
March 30 – June 10, 2016
Kindergarten will only test during the Spring window.
Grade 2 Global Screening & New Students in Grades 3-5
The purpose of Global Screening is to:
 Recognize those students whose performance, motivation, or potential ability indicates
the needs for accelerated and enriched instruction
 Match student strengths with instruction and programs that will support and extend
these strengths.
 5 subtests administered: Sequencing, Analogies, Quantitative Reasoning, Verbal
Reasoning (Words & Context)
In View: December 2 – December 15, 2015
Gifted & Talented Rescreening (GR 3-5)
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Take another look at a student who has already been screened
Recognize those students whose performance, motivation, or potential ability indicates
the needs for accelerated and enriched instruction
Match student strengths with instruction and programs that will support and extend
these strengths.
5 subtests administered: Sequencing, Analogies, Quantitative Reasoning, Verbal
Reasoning (Words & Context)
InView: December 2 – December 15, 2015
MSA Science Grade 5
MSA provides national norm-referenced and Maryland criterion-referenced data. The normreferenced items provide national percentile ranks to describe how well a student performed in
science compared to his/her peers nationally. The criterion-referenced items provide
proficiency scores (expressed as Basic, Proficient, or Advanced proficiency level) to describe
how well a student has mastered the science content specified in the Maryland Content
Standards.
MSA Science Grade 5
March 2 – March 24, 2016 (Online)
March 2 – March 15, 2016 (Paper/Pencil)
WIDA (Worldclass Instructional Design and Assessment) Consortium: Access
for ELL – Under the No Child Left Behind legislation, states must measure the
development of the English language proficiency skills of their English language
learners (ELL) in grades K-12 on an annual basis within the domains of listening,
speaking, reading and writing. Members of the WIDA Consortium use ACCESS for
ELLs to fulfill this requirement. Therefore, the primary purpose of ACCESS for
ELLs is to measure English proficiency growth tied to the criteria of the WIDA
Consortium’s English language Proficiency Standards, which are aligned to the
academic content area standards of every WIDA state.
January 6 – February 12, 2016
(Make-Up February 16 – 29, 2016)
PARTNERSHIP
FOR
ASSESSMENT
OF
COLLEGE AND CAREERS (PARCC)
Grades 3 - 5
READINESS
FOR
The PARCC summative assessments in English Language Arts (ELA)/Literacy and Mathematics
will include a rich set of performance-based tasks which will enable teachers, schools, students
and their parents to gain important insights into how well critical knowledge, skills and abilities
essential for young people to thrive in college and careers are being mastered. The assessments
at each grade level will assess the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for that grade. In
order to promote improvements in curriculum and instruction and support various forms of
accountability, the PARCC assessments are designed to measure the full range of the CCSS and
full continuum of student abilities.
Grades 3 – 5
May 9 – June 3, 2016
PARCC English/Language Arts
Grades 3 & 4
May 9 – 10, 2016
Grade 5
May 11 & 13, 2016
PARCC Mathematics
Grades 3
May 17-18, 2016
Grade 4
May 16 – 17, 2016
Grade 5
May 16 & 20, 2016
PARCC Make-Up dates: June 6 – 10, 2016