Psychology Essay

Week 13
Student’s name
Institution

Week 1
The New Jersey Assessment of Skill and Knowledge (NJASK) refers to a standardized test that the New Jersey Department of Education administered to all student in public schools from grades 3 to 8 usually anytime between March and May (New Jersey State Department of Education, 2018). The test in combination with others was used to assess New Jersey public school students’ performance. It was however replaced by the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) in 2015.
Results of the NJASK are presented for three performance areas; academic achievement, college and career readiness and student growth. The academic achievement performance area assesses the students’ content knowledge (New Jersey State Department of Education, 2018). The college and career readiness performance area assesses the level to which students exhibit behaviors that indicate future achievement in college or careers. The student growth performance area compares how students perform in the test between two consecutive years (New Jersey State Department of Education, 2018). For every performance area, results are presented for peer percentile, statewide percentile and percent of targets met.
A performance of 80th percentile and above in any of the performance areas is regarded as very high performance (New Jersey State Department of Education, 2018). When performance in any of the performance areas ranges between the 60th percentile and the 79.

9th percentile, it is considered as high performance (New Jersey State Department of Education, 2018). A performance that ranges between the 40th and the 59.9th percentile is described as average performance. Between 20th and 39.9th percentile, performance is said to be lagging (New Jersey State Department of Education, 2018). Performance of 19.9th percentile or below is described as significantly lagging (New Jersey State Department of Education, 2018).
References
New Jersey State Department of Education. (2018). Interpretation of New Jersey Assessment of Skill and Knowledge Results. Retrieved 24 April 2018, from http://www.state.nj.us/education/pr/1314/31/310420030.pdf