At ABIS we pride ourselves on using a wide range of tools to assess our students over the course of the school year. This wide range provides us a more complete picture of each student’s strengths and weaknesses and helps us towards one of our core objectives: individualized learning.<\/p>\n
One of those tools is the International Schools Assessment (ISA), taken every February by over 40,000 students around the world. ISA assesses\u00a0students in grades 3-10 in Reading, Mathematical Literacy, and Writing. The tests are based on the framework of the OECD PISA tests, which are given every three years to 15-year olds in over 60 countries.<\/p>\n
Since the ISA tests are taken over two days, it is important to recognize that they are merely a ‘snapshot’ of students’ abilities. They do not represent an entire year of learning and development. Furthermore, ISA results do not take into account a whole host of other factors, such as how tired the student was that day or his\/her emotional state. This is why we consider the ISA tests just one<\/em> of many helpful tools.<\/p>\n This year’s results are now available on the student websites. To find your child’s ISA results, go to his\/her website and click on ‘Reports’ along the top and then ‘2014-5’. You’ll then see ‘ISA’ appear as an option.<\/p>\n For each subject, the gray bar represents the middle 60% of all students around the world at that grade level who took the test. The black dot is your child’s performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At ABIS we pride ourselves on using a wide range of tools to assess our students over the course of the school year. This wide range provides us a more complete picture of each student’s strengths and weaknesses and helps us towards one of our core objectives: individualized learning. One of those tools is the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":27938,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-flash","category-grades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}