Assessment Information

Throughout the school year, students are tested for various reasons across all grade levels. Please take a moment to look over assessment given by grade level.

Click here for the HCS assessment calendar.

PALS- Child Development

This assessment reflects skills that are predictive of future reading success and measure name writing ability, upper and lower-case alphabet recognition, letter sound and beginning sound production, print and word awareness, rhyme awareness and nursery rhyme awareness.

DIBELS- Kindergarten-2nd Grade

The Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS®) are comprised of measures to test fluency in the following areas: Initial Sounds, Letter Naming, Phoneme Segmentation, Nonsense Words, Oral Reading, Retelling, and Word Use.

MAP- 1st-5th

Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) tests are electronically administered and scored. These achievement tests are designed to measure academic growth in reading, language usage, and math.

SC Ready- 3rd, 4th, & 5th

The SC Ready measures mastery of grade level achievement standards. 

CogAT

The Iowa Cognitive Abilities (CogAT) assesses student’s thinking/reasoning skills using verbal, numerical, and nonverbal communications/symbols and is used as the initial screening process for the Gifted and Talented program.