In collaboration with ACLS, staff from the CEA have developed a set of documents to aid programs in talking about the NRS assessments with their students. These documents provide basic information about each of the assessments, including what is tested, the format of the test, and what scores mean.
The Good to Know Guides for students have been analyzed for readability and in general, these guides are at a 4th to 5th grade reading level and are described as between very easy and easy to read.
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Teacher Editions, for ESOL and ABE assessments, with all Good To Know Guides and Connections to Professional Standards
- ESOL Teacher Edition (pdf)
- ABE Teacher Edition (pdf)
ESOL Assessments – Student Collections: All ESOL Good to Know Guides for students in one place
- English language versions (pdf)
- Chinese language versions (pdf)
- NEW Haitian-Creole language versions (pdf)
- Hindi language versions (pdf)
- Korean language versions (pdf)
- Portuguese language versions (pdf)
- Spanish language versions (pdf)
- Vietnamese language versions (pdf)
- More in the works (send other suggestions here!)
ABE Assessments – Student Collections: All ABE Good to Know Guides for students in one place
- English language versions (pdf)
- Chinese language versions (pdf)
- NEW Haitian-Creole language versions (pdf)
- Hindi language versions (pdf)
- Korean language versions (pdf)
- Portuguese language versions (pdf)
- Spanish language versions (pdf)
- Vietnamese language versions (pdf)
- More in the works (send other suggestions here!)
Good to Know Guides for Individual Tests:
- Good to Know Guide for the BEST Plus 2.0
- Good to Know Guide for the MAPT-CCR for Math
- Good to Know Guide for the MAPT-CCR for Reading
- Good to Know Guide for the TABE CLAS-E Locator
- Good to Know Guide for the TABE CLAS-E Reading
- Good to Know Guide for the TABE CLAS-E Writing
- Good to Know Guide for the TABE Level L Reading
- Good to Know Guide for the TABE Level L Math
- Good to Know Guide for the TABE 11/12 Math
- Good to Know Guide for the TABE 11/12 Reading
Additional Resources for Use of the Good to Know Guides
- Usage Ideas for the GTK Guides (new, May 2024)
- Slides from the 5/22/2024 Workshop at ACLS’ Directors Meeting (PDF)
- 2/4/2022 Webinar on the Guides (Youtube video)
- Slides from the 2/4/2022 Webinar (PDF)
- Agenda from the 2/4/2022 Webinar (PDF)
- Synthesis of Ideas on the Jamboards from the 2/4/2022 Webinar (PDF)