IL - Testing Programs

Testing shall be carried out to provide information on the basic items of (1) learner educational needs and (2) learner educational achievement.

Testing programs shall be designed as integral parts of the needs assessment and evaluation programs. They shall be developed primarily for furnishing needs information to decision makers, including the Board, administrators, teachers, parents and students. The needs of these various users shall be clearly identified and the testing program shall be limited to obtaining that information which is needed and useful.

There shall be broad-based involvement in development of testing programs. In their planning, every effort shall be made to see that testing contributes to the learning process rather than detracts from it. Efforts shall be made to incorporate necessary culture-free or culture-fair tests to assure that measurements are reasonably accurate. Learning goals and objectives shall provide the guidelines for determining tests to be utilized, including questions of where, when and how to use culture-free/culture-fair tests.

Standardized achievement tests shall be given to adequately monitor student progress and to evaluate the effectiveness of the curriculum and instruction.

Requests from the public for individualized testing (other than that required by law) ill be considered on a case by case basis, and will be done only if the district has as regular employee, the appropriate personnel and will be completed as time permits.
 

Adopted 1/9/86