All schools are required to participate in an archdiocese-wide standardized testing program.
Standardized test results are only one indicator of the students' overall academic achievement. Teachers use standardized test results to identify students' relative academic strengths and weaknesses, design curriculum, and plan for instruction, and principals use the results to evaluate curriculum in order to set instructional priorities and plan appropriate professional development. Teachers use the test results to identify their
students’ relative academic strengths and weaknesse is, to design curriculum, and plan for instruction.
At St. Joseph the Worker School, we participate in the Renaissance STAR assessment for Math, Reading, and Early Literacy (TK-3 only). Students in grades TK-8 participate in one, two, or all three of these tests during prescribed "windows." After each window closes, the faculty spends time disaggregating and analyzing the data to inform their instructional planning.
