Iowa Assessments
Instructional Resources & Materials

Spotlight on Assessment Content Briefs

Riverside Insights offers a series of "white paper content briefs" called "Spotlight on Assessment" to help you understand more about and to get the most out of the Iowa Assessments. These briefs bring to bear the expertise of our Iowa authors, the evidence basis behind the Iowa Assessments, and our commitment to being leaders in the field.

• Content Validity Evidence in the Item Development Process
• College and Career Readiness
• Content Validity: Large-Scale Assessment
• Norm-Referenced and Criterion-Referenced Interpretations

Click here for your complimentary copy of "Measuring Growth with the Iowa Assessments. Iowa Message to Families: Click here to download pdf. For Technical Support help: Email or call 877-346-8337.

CogAT Interactive Ability Profile System highlights both the level and pattern of a student's ability, helping to provide educational guidance for all students, not just those with high ability. Using CogAT Score Profiles to Differentiate Instruction (Winter 2017) CogAT Form 7 2017 (Fall 2017) - updated link coming soon Universal Screening in Gifted and Talented Identification: Implementation and Overcoming Challenges (November 2016) Program Diversity and the Alternative Verbal Scale of CogAT Form 7 (Back to School 2016) Check out the newest issue of HMH's newsletter: Cognitively Speaking. For Technical Support help: Email or call 877-346-8337.