D.J. Bakie School
Testing Information

NECAP

NWEA

LEXILES

NAEP

NECAP (New England Common Assessment Program)
NH Currently requires students in grades 3-8 to participate in NECAP  testing, administered in October. For more information on this testing program, please see the NH Department of Education NECAP web site. Another useful site is the NH DOE Assessment Page.                  Top

NWEA (Northwest Evaluation Association )
aka MAP (Measure of Academic Progress
Sanborn Regional School District also administers the NWEA test in winter and spring. An additional fall test will be given to all second graders and students new to the district to establish a baseline and give teachers valuable information regarding students' instructional levels. The NWEA is an in-depth computerized test in Mathematics, Reading, and Language Arts that takes approximately one hour to complete for each subject. (It is not a timed test, however, like the NECAP).  Parents will receive a copy of results after each testing window closes.

2005-2006 was the first year the NWEA test was administered to all students in grades 2-10 and teachers are still receiving training to understand and explain the meaning of results. We appreciate your patience as the we strive to define the uses and responses to this useful assessment program. For further information, please see the NWEA parent information site. http://www.nwea.org/assessments/                                                                  Top

LEXILE Scores
The NWEA test also provides information on Lexile Scores which rank student reading abilities and match them to thousands of books. Texts are evaluated for difficulty based on two parameters: word complexity/frequency and sentence length. The following links may help you find books that match your child's lexile range/reading ability:
NWEA Lexile Information        Lexile       Novelist      Scholastic Lexile Info                        Top

NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress)
Sanborn Regional elementary and middle schools have also been randomly selected to administer the NAEP test to fourth grade students February 13, 2007 This test, often refered to as The Nation's Report Card  provides an" ongoing, nationally representative measure of what America's students know and can do in key subject areas." This test takes approximately 90 minutes, and results are included in the data at www.nationsreportcard.gov. There are no individual results associated with this test either for parents or the school district.

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