Student Assessment

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• Connecticut Interim Assessments: Smarter Balanced and Next Generation Science

  This page provides information about The Smarter Balanced Interim Assessments for mathematics and English language arts (ELA)/literacy. They are available to students in Grades 3 – 8 and high school. The interim Assessments are one of the three components of the Smarter Balanced Assessment System—along with the end-of-year summative assessments in ELA/literacy and mathematics, and a digital library of formative assessment tools and practices that support classroom instruction.

• Connecticut Physical Fitness Assessment 

  This page provides information on The Connecticut Physical Fitness Assessment that is administered to students in Grades 4, 6, 8 and in high school. This includes information on the Connecticut Physical Fitness Assessment Individual Student Collection, which collects results of the assessment at the student level.

• Connecticut SAT School Day

  This page provides information about The Connecticut SAT School Day that is administered to all students in Grade 11.

• Connecticut Sensible Assessment System

  This page contains information and links about state summative assessments administered by the Connecticut State Department of Education

• Connecticut Writing Portfolio

  The Writing Portfolio Guides for Grades K-2 include materials that can be used by teachers to complement the instruction of writing over the course of the school year.

• EdSight

  EdSight is CSDE’s data portal that provides detailed information about schools and districts and offers information on key performance measures that make up Connecticut’s Next Generation Accountability System.

• English Language Proficiency Assessment - LAS Links

• Find Information about Smarter Balanced

  This page provides information about the Smarter Balanced Assessments administered in Grades 3 - 8 for ELA and Mathematics.

• International Assessments

  This page provides information about the full range of international assessments that are administered in Connecticut schools periodically.

• Kindergarten Inventory

  This page provides information about The Fall Kindergarten Entrance Inventory.

• Mastery Examination Committee

  This page provides information about the Mastery Examination Committee within the Department of Education.

• NAEP

  This page provides information about the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). NAEP is the nation’s only ongoing representative sample survey of student achievement in core subject areas.

• NAEP Tools and Applications

• NGSS Assessments

  This pages provides information about Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) Assessments delivered in Grades 5, 8 and 11.

• Program for International Student Assessment - PISA

  This page contains information about The Program for International Student Assessment - PISA.