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The Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS)

General Purpose of the Test: The ITBS (Iowa Test of Basic Skills) is used by school districts and home schooling families to assess student achievement in the areas of reading, language, mathematics, science, social studies, and sources of information.

Developed by: University of Iowa, College of Education. Published by Riverside Publishing.

The test sections consist of: Vocabulary, Word Analysis, Listening, Reading Comprehension, Language (including Spelling, Usage, Capitalization, and Punctuation), Math (including Concepts and Estimation, Problem Solving and Data Interpretation, and Computation), Social Studies, Science, and Sources of information (including Maps and Diagrams, and Reference Materials.

To read more details for each subsection, as well as to see the number of items per section per grade level, visit Riverside Publishing's website.

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Test Sections and Subtests:

Resources available at Thinking To Learn to build and improve tested skills:

Vocabulary

Word Roots - grades 4-12

Can You Find Me? PreK-1

Reading Comprehension

Listening

Reading Detective - grades 3-8

Can You Find Me? PreK-1

Language

word classification
spelling, capitalization, punctuation
usage and expression

Building Thinking Skills - grades PreK-12th

Editor in Chief - grades 3-12th

Language Smarts - grades 2-3

Word Roots - grades 2-12th

Punctuation Puzzlers Software - grades 3-8

Mathematics

beginning math concepts
math concepts
math computation
math problem solving

Building Thinking Skills - grades PreK-12th

Math Detective - grades 3-8

Mathematical Reasoning - grades PreK - 8

Scratch Your Brain - grades 2-12th

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