IOWA TEST OF BASIC SKILLS    SPRING 1991:

The Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS) (before it was transformed and transmuted) provided the most accurate picture of the achievement levels of Katy ISD students. 

The school district stopped giving this test because, in my opinion, they wanted to hide from the public the true academic ability and proficiency of Katy ISD students.

More recently the ITBS has been transformed to fit the Common Core teaching that is transpiring, so it no longer, in my opinion, could provide a truthful assessment of real academic knowledge by KISD students.

The following chart shows the ITBS and the Tests of Achievement and Proficiency (TAP) in the Spring of 1991.

In my opinion this is the last true norm-referenced test given in Katy ISD.

ITBS     # Tested   Basic       Reading      Language   Work Study     Math       Social   Science

                          Composite                                                                               Studies

Grade K   1,557     51%                                  57%                                52%

Grade 1   1,499     64%           62%                72%            65%             61%      83%     71%

Grade 2   1,642     64%           65%                70%            64%             65%      67%     62%

Grade 3   1,609     56%           57%                60%            54%             52%      60%     61%

Grade 4   1,639     57%           58%                54%            61%             53%      62%     64%

Grade 5   1,526     59%           59%                59%            61%             55%      58%     67%

Grade 6   1,535     59%           59%                57%            61%             56%      59%     62%

Grade 7   1,462     58%           59%                60%            59%             55%      60%     68%

Grade 8   1,424     57%           57%                63%            60%             53%      58%     59%

TAP        #Tested   Basic         Reading      Written      Sources          Math     Social    Science

                            Composite     Comp.      Express.      Of Info                        Studies    

Grade 9   1,348     60%           62%             59%              60%             57%      57%         69%

Grade 10 1,200     62%           62%             59%              62%             61%      61%         69%

Looks like KatyISD students are pretty average, doesn't it??? Maybe even doing less than average...