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I don't see why you couldn't. Others have. You could also edit your profile and list it under your homepage there.

The great thing about homeschool is you CAN admister the exact same standardized test the school uses to measure progress if you have a college degree.

Interestingly, DD8 was able to correctly choose the multiple choice answer for both multiple digit multiplication and long division on an achievement test awhile back.
Later, when asked to work out similar problems with no answer choices, she couldn't get the correct answer because she hadn't been shown the process yet.
She must have been able to estimate the correct answser and use process of elimination.

Yes, that's a strategy I discussed w/ DS. For ex: 34x12 ... look for an answer that as 8 in the ones place. I told him that later, the kids who know strategies will finish in time b/c they are not bogged down in doing the full calculation. So w/ a strong sense of place value, a kid could answer 34x12 in multiple choice unless the question is written such that all the answers have 8 in the ones place lol. But then you could estimate as well perhaps 30x10 and get in the ballpark.

My blog is here. I am not a great blogger, but I have written a little about how school works here.

I have used the California Achievement test. I like it because homeschooling moms are authorized by the test to give it. (So I can give it at home and it still meets the requirements of my state.) My sister has used it, and told me about it. I don't think that it is the best test out there, but it works for us. I used an out of level test for my oldest this year, and at least she didn't get a perfect score on any of the subtests. (She did score 99% on several of them though.)

We have not had a formal assesment done on any of our dds yet. Since we are planning to continue to homeschool, there doesn't seem to be any benefit. Maybe when they gets older it will be necessary, but for now we will just keep on trying to keep them learning. (Not as easy as it sounds. They knows so much, that it is easy for everything to just be review instead of real learning.)

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