Beyond PSAT Scores: Crafting the Ideal Benchmark Assessment for Student Success
After analyzing the latest PSAT scores, a revolutionary approach emerges, revealing how a well-designed benchmark assessment can transform these numbers into powerful tools for enhancing student learning and teaching effectiveness.
Unveiling the Mysteries of the Digital SAT & PSAT: Same Answers, Different Scores?
The digital PSAT and SAT represent a significant shift in standardized testing, primarily due to their adaptive, modular structure rather than just the move to a digital format. This change deeply affects how students’ scores are calculated, making it crucial to understand the new scoring system, especially with the digital PSAT already in use and the digital SAT set to launch in March 2024.
What is Desmos—and how does it relate to the digital SAT?
The Desmos calculator is a key feature of the digital SAT’s math section, offering advanced functions and leveling the playing field for all test-takers. Learn how Academic Approach integrates Desmos into our curriculum to prepare students for success.
Unpacking the digital PSATs
The PSAT is going digital and adaptive, much like the new SAT. Rolling out this October, the PSAT 10 and PSAT 8/9 will feature a combined Reading and Writing section, allow calculators throughout, and offer a more personalized test experience. The tests align closely with the SAT, making early preparation crucial for students. Schools must act now to ensure readiness for the digital shift, from tech setup to student training.
What’s changing in the new digital, adaptive SAT? A lot and a little all at once.
The SAT is evolving, featuring an adaptive model and new test formats. From blending reading and writing sections to changing how math is tested, it’s a new dance but the same steps. Academic Approach is here to guide students and educators through these changes with data-driven curriculum and strategies.
Communicating with Students About the PSAT/NMSQT
As high school teachers and administrators, you understand the importance of the PSAT/NMSQT. As standardized test experts, we also get it. Students, however, have widely
Getting the Most Out of Your Score: Learning From the PSAT
What is the PSAT? The PSAT is a practice SAT administered by the College Board and available to students in grades 8 through 11, with