ARDTP
"My favorite revision comment of this year made by a student who was looking at the writer's model paper that scored a six for the "Getting Home From Nowhere" prompt, "Geez, they even describe how they walked up each step of the bus!" The model paper did not really do that; he was exaggerating, but he got the point for what his writing was lacking. He had not really paid much attention to my plea for more details but he saw it in that model paper and knew what he needed to raise his score."
Jody Henderson-Sykes, Longfellow, Milwaukee Public Schools
At School :: ARDTP
The Algebra Readiness Diagnostic Testing Program™ (ARDTP) is a web-based system for conducting diagnostic assessments of the math and algebra skills of students in Grades 4 through 9. Using both strand tests and computer adaptive tests, ARDTP generates immediate and reliable diagnostic feedback across five mathematic strands: Number and Number Sense; Computation and Estimation; Measurement and Geometry; Probability and Statistics; and Patterns, Functions and Algebra.
When ARDTP is used as a pre- and post-testing tool, students take an adaptive exam at the beginning of the school year to determine strengths and weaknesses; the assessment is taken again near the end of the school year to determine the progress that has been made. In between, students take "strand" tests to chart progress within specific areas.