Assessment
Assessment
Assessments at EKES
At East Kingston Elementary, classroom teachers gather information about students in a myriad of ways. Standardized assessment, formal assessment, and informal assessment and classroom work are triangulated so we can inform our instruction and monitor student progress. Each grade level team then meets at least once a month, to review data and monitor student progress in reading, writing, and math, to insure our instruction is meeting the needs of all of our learners, and that every child is progressing through the New Hampshire Competencies*.
Standardized assessment occurs in the intermediate grades, grades 3, 4, and 5, with the New Hampshire State Assessment System. All students in NH public schools in these grades take a technology-driven standardized test in reading, writing, and math. In fifth grade, an assessment for science is added as well. Families are informed in the spring before the assessments take place, and the results are shared privately with families as soon as the school receives the scores.
NH State Assessment System (SAS) Information
Spring 2025 EKES students in Grades 3, 4, and 5 will be participating in the New Hampshire Statewide Assessment System (NH SAS). The assessments will be in the area of ELA Writing, ELA Reading, Mathematics, and in addition, Grade 5 will also test in Science. Assessments will be given between the dates of March 2025, and May 2025, or until all students have completed the assessments.
Literacy We administer i-Ready Reading Diagnostic in grades 1-5, 3 times per year. The i-Ready Diagnostic for Reading is a web-based assessment that evaluates students' reading skills in grades K–12. It's designed to help teachers identify students' strengths and weaknesses, and create personalized instruction plans for each student.
We also administer Acadience in grades K-3, 3 times per year (for additional literacy screening, grades 4-5 may be assessed to screen and monitor a student's progress). Acadience Reading is a universal screening and progress monitoring assessment that measures the acquisition of early literacy skills such as letter-sound correspondence and word reading fluency.
Lastly, we administer the Phonological Awareness Screening Test assessment 3 times per year in grades K-2 (for additional literacy screening, grades 3-5 may be assessed to screen and monitor a student's progress). This assessment identifies a student's ability to recognize and manipulate the sounds in spoken language, including syllables.
Mathematics We administer i-Ready Reading Diagnostic in grades 1-5, 3 times per year. The i-Ready Diagnostic for Mathematics is a web-based assessment that evaluates students' reading skills in grades K–12. It's designed to help teachers identify students' strengths and weaknesses, and create personalized instruction plans for each student.
We also administer Acadience in grades K-5, 3 times per year. Acadience Mathematics is a universal screening and progress monitoring assessment that measures the acquisition of early numeracy, computation, and problem-solving skills
Summary Schoolwide informal assessment to form instructional goals is ongoing at our school. This includes work samples, anecdotal observations, running records, skill checks, math unit tests, and students documenting work in digital portfolios (such as SeeSaw). At EKES, we incorporate student ownership in this form of assessment, to empower students to metacognitively reflect on what skills they have and in what skills they need.
Hence, as you can see, EKES teachers assess and monitor each student's progress in a variety of ways.
For more information on the aforementioned New Hampshire Competencies*, please visit our CBE page. (click here)
****For state, assessment reporting visit their iReport workbook page by clicking this link NHDOE State Assessments
2025 NHSAS Schedule
April 15-16–5th Science
April 22-23–5th Math
May 6-7–5th Reading
May 13-14–3rd/4th Reading
May 20-21–3rd/4th Math