Testnav Vaap Practice Test

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Clickon each assessment name below to explore the most common assessments used by RCPS. To learn more about what assessments are given in each grade level, visit the Assessments by Grade Level webpage.

The Virginia Alternate Assessment Program (VAAP) is designed to evaluate the performance of students with significant cognitive disabilities in grades 3-8 and high school. Beginning in the 2021-2022 school year, the portfolio-based VAAP was replaced with a new multiple-choice assessment in the content areas of reading, mathematics, and science that was administered to students in an online or paper format.

The new VAAP is based on academic content standards derived from the Standards of Learning (SOL) in reading, mathematics, and science that have been reduced in depth, breadth, and complexity. These content standards are referred to as the Virginia Essentialized Standards of Learning (VESOL).

The Workplace Documents assessment measures skills that individuals use when they read real workplace documents and use that information to make job-related decisions and solve problems. The documents include messages, emails, letters, directions, signs, bulletins, policies, websites, contracts, and regulations.

Workplace writing needs to be clear and free of distractions such as poor grammar, misspellings, and extraneous information. After all, careless errors may lead the reader to believe there are also errors in the facts, and the writer loses credibility and trustworthiness.

The Business Writing assessment measures the skill used when writing an original response to a work-related situation. Components of the Business Writing skill include sentence structure, mechanics, grammar, word usage, tone and word choice, organization and focus, and development of ideas.

The Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT) is a standardized test designed to measure learned reasoning and problem solving skills in three different areas: verbal, quantitative, and nonverbal. These abilities, acquired both in and out of school, are important because children use them on a daily basis to learn and solve problems. It is important to note that the CogAT is neither an intelligence test nor an achievement test. It measures developed rather than innate abilities.

Teachers use Cognitive Abilities Test results to tailor instruction to match how students learn, consider students for enrichment programs that pique their interest and challenge their thinking, and uncover gaps between student achievement and ability.

Local Alternative Assessments, including Performance Assessments, are used in place of SOL tests in certain grade level content areas to support balanced assessment practices as part of the Virginia Assessment Program for grades 3, 5, 6, and 7.

The 2014 General Assembly omitted five Standards of Learning (SOL) tests in grades 3, 5, 6, and 7. The Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) still requires school divisions to continue to teach and measure student achievement of all content standards. The LAAs are required for grade-level content areas in which Virginia SOL tests were eliminated and are created locally by Roanoke City Public Schools.

To provide consistent achievement expectations for all Virginia students, school divisions are to use the common rubrics. The rubrics are linked below in each content-specific section, when scoring student responses to performance assessments or performance tasks included among the local alternative assessments in these courses.

The Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test (NNAT3) is a universal screener administered to grade one students each year. NNAT3 is a brief, nonverbal measure of general intellectual ability that yields a norm-based score. The NNAT3 consists of 48 multiple choice questions in pictorial form.

The NNAT3 has no verbal content. It consists of geometric shapes that are universal, and its directions are pictorial with minimal verbal instructions in order to make it accessible to a wide variety of students, including those with limited educational experiences, and those who come from diverse cultural, socioeconomic, or linguistic backgrounds.

Early literacy screening is the key to providing effective literacy instruction and preventing future reading problems. The Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening (PALS) provides a comprehensive assessment of young students' knowledge of the important literacy fundamentals that are predictive of future reading success. PALS is used to learn what students currently know and what they are ready to learn next, and to identify strengths and needs in the program and curriculum.

SOLs for Virginia public schools establish minimum expectations for what students should know and be able to do at the end of each grade or course in English, mathematics, science, history/social science and other subjects.

Almost all SOL tests are now taken online. Online tests in science, mathematics, reading and writing include interactive non-multiple choice items that require students to apply what they have learned. Only students with a documented, disability-related need take pencil-and-paper tests.

A computer adaptive test (CAT) is an assessment that is customized for every student based on how the student responds to the test questions. Students who take online grades 3-8 mathematics and grades 3-8 reading tests will be administered a computer adaptive version of the SOL tests.

The Virginia Kindergarten Readiness Program (VKRP) is a statewide initiative focused on building a more comprehensive understanding of school readiness and success. VKRP gives schools, teachers and families a complete picture of school readiness in 4 key areas: mathematics, literacy, self-regulation, and social skills.

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