They use the Iowa Assessments (formerly ITBS) for the timed normed test in 3rd on up. MAP is used in 4th-5th in fall/spring. That's it.
The school is not really on board. They wouldn't accept my sending in outside materials for extension or sending her up a grade for math this year, so it's really teacher dependent what she gets -- no GIEP or way to measure the growth, much less where she's at. I will have to push the school for what little we can get for her in 3rd grade (a lot of new teachers), and since they don't do testing for her this year, they just offer differentiation based on teacher observation. They don't do pre-testing or year-end testing.
DD fell into a trap last year where she was told to not work ahead, and she was very frustrated, bored, and she's still not totally past that. She is now working ahead in class (or on the rare occasion she does online practice) and doesn't realize it because the teacher is on board, but at home, if we're just doing random stuff, she sees that she's supposed to learn something in 3rd grade or later (because of her brother), she won't even touch it because she's not "supposed" to do that yet. "I won't learn that til next year." I don't want to end up back where we were a year ago, so I need some accepted way to make sure she's being challenged and placed properly.
