Description of ITED Ancillary Test Materials

The publications listed below were designed to be used with various activities that occur prior to and after the administration of the ITED. Some of these materials have been furnished to schools without charge as a benefit of program participation. Additional copies and replacements can be purchased. Still other materials are available for purchase by schools as they need them. (The cost, if any, of each publication is provided on the registration form that is used for ordering materials each year.) This page describes how each of these documents is intended to be used in the future.

Directions for Administration

The booklet provides basic information about the individual tests within the ITED battery and details procedures to be used when administering the tests. Each teacher who administers the tests should have a personal copy of this manual to keep for reference purposes.

A Message to Parents

The document is intended to be sent home to parents prior to testing to inform them about the nature of the tests in the ITED battery their child will take. This is not a practice test, and it should not be used as or referred to as a practice test. There is no need to provide one of these brochures to every child's parents every year. Rather, your district might provide them to parents of students who will be testing with the ITED for the first time. The brochure should be helpful for updating parents who may only be familiar with older forms of the ITED. This report is also available in Spanish.

Report to Students and Parents

A press-on label that is furnished as part of the standard scoring service can be affixed to the top of the chart in this leaflet. This report is also available in Spanish.

Student Profile Chart

This leaflet is intended to be used as a cumulative record of test results for a given student over the high school years. On the inside there is a place to affix the press-on label that is furnished as part of the standard scoring service. There also is a place to graph the student's standard scores or grade equivalents from each year. One copy of this folder could be ordered for each student who has not previously tested with Form A or B.

Interpretive Guide for Teachers and Counselors

Every teacher and counselor who has an opportunity to use ITED scores should have a personal copy to keep as a reference. The guide includes information about the test content, sample illustrations of various score reports, detailed suggestions about how to use the test scores, and suggestions for reporting results to students and their parents.

Interpretive Guide for School Administrators

The main purpose of this guide is to provide information to help school administrators interpret and use ITED scores wisely. Score reports that focus on the administrative uses of test results are illustrated, and procedures for accomplishing a variety of administrative uses are described. Background on test content and the several types of scores used on ITED score reports are also included. Every central office and building administrator should have a copy of this guide. Curriculum coordinators, counselors, and other staff who have district-wide responsibilities for score use and interpretation also should have personal copies for reference use.

Norms and Score Conversions

There are separate versions of this manual for Form A and Form B, and every building should have its own copy of each manual. The tables in these manuals are used for converting raw scores to other scores with national norms -- national standard score, national grade equivalent, national percentile rank (both student norms and school norms), and normal curve equivalent.

Guide to Research and Development

This Guide documents all the technical information about the Iowa Tests and contains references to the published research about the development and use of scores from the tests. Details about the national standardization and the norms developed from it are given, and separate chapters are devoted to score validity and reliability. Technical information about the ITBS and ITED batteries as well as the related programs in such areas as writing and listening is included.

Test Coordinator Guide for the Iowa Tests

This Guide was designed for use by individuals who have responsibility for coordinating assessment activities in a building or entire district. In addition to descriptive information about the tests and testing materials, there are parts dealing with establishing various policies related to using assessments. Other parts relate to planning, lists of coordinator responsibilities, preparing students for testing, coding demographic information, and reporting results to others.

Iowa Test Coordinator's Manual

The purpose of this manual is to describe the operational procedures for using the ITED that are unique to Iowa schools. In addition, differences in materials and services available to Iowa schools, compared with their national counterparts, are identified. Because the procedures of Iowa Testing Programs may change somewhat from year to year, some information in this manual may become dated after several years. The annual written communications to district test coordinators highlight these changes.