State Assessments

Smarter Balanced Assessments (SBA)

English language arts (ELA) and math tests in grades 3–8 and 10 are required for federal and state accountability. The high school ELA and math assessments can also be used to meet a student's graduation pathway requirement.

Washington Comprehensive Assessment of Science (WCAS)

Science tests for grades 5, 8, and 11 are required for federal and state accountability.

Washington - Access to Instruction and Measurement (WA-AIM)

ELA, math, and science alternate assessments in grades 3–11 for students with significant cognitive disabilities documented in their Individualized Education Program (IEP) are required for federal and state accountability. The high school ELA and math assessments can be used to meet a student's graduation pathway requirement.

Washington Kindergarten Inventory of Skills (WaKIDS)

This program helps bring families, teachers, and early learning providers together to support each kindergarten student's learning and transition into public schools.

WIDA & WIDA Alternate

• WIDA Screener: A test that is used to determine the initial eligibility for English language development services for multilingual learners in grades K–12.
• Annual WIDA ACCESS Assessments: Tests given to all students in grades K–12 who qualify for English language development services to determine which students remain eligible to continue receiving English language development services.
• WIDA Alternate ACCESS: Test given to students in grades K–12 with significant cognitive disabilities who qualify for English language development services to determine which students remain eligible to continue receiving English language development services.

OSPI-Developed Assessments

Washington state developed classroom-based assessments for the Arts, Educational Technology, Health and Physical Education, and Social Studies based on the state's learning standards to help guide day-to-day instruction. State curriculum specialists create tasks and questions that model good assessments and provide them to local school districts.

District Assessment

i-Ready

Know Students Deeply with a Powerful Adaptive Assessment

At the heart of the i-Ready Assessment suite, i-Ready Diagnostic helps you know your students deeply with a principled approach to design built to provide comprehensive insights and differentiated goals to accelerate growth. i-Ready can help you easily understand precisely what students can do at the domain level. Growth goals backed by validity and reliability evidence offer every student a realistic path toward proficiency. Powered by i-Ready Diagnostic, teachers can deliver multiple personalized learning opportunities tailored to their students as a class, small group, or individually, while easy-to-understand reports help district leaders identify bright spots, support growth opportunities, and allocate resources. 

• Program Type:Assessment

• Subject:Literacy, Mathematics

• Grade(s):K–12

• Language:English, Spanish

• Format:Digital

CogAT

The CogAT is the #1 gifted identification tool but its insights were actually designed to differentiate instruction – not only for gifted students, but for every student . Each student that completes CogAT receives an Ability Profile™ – one of the most powerful data points that CogAT provides. It offers a targeted summary of a student’s overall cognitive ability, areas of strength and relative weakness, and links directly to detailed information about that student’s potential for learning and suggestions for instruction.

Ability Profiles can be individually entered and explored at CogAT, or viewed in a list with similarly-able students conveniently grouped via CogAT’s Differentiated Instruction Report, available in the CogAT Dashboard. (pictured above)

In short, the insights offered by CogAT about student ability are an important key to fully unlock and access student potential for success and achievement. 

WLPE

Language proficiency is a person’s ability to use language for real-world reasons naturally for many topics and reasons. For students in K-12 grades, our goal is to develop a system that supports any bilingual student to receive world language credits by demonstrating language proficiency.

World Language Proficiency Assessment (WLPE) can be used to earn Competency-based Credit, Dual Credit, and the Washington State Seal of Biliteracy.