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Students score well above national average on ITBS

Recently released results of the fall testing of the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS) show that Fulton County students continue to score well above the national average on the tests.

Fulton outscored the nation by at least 10 percentile points in all grades tested in the core areas of total reading, total math, total language, social studies and science. There are no state level comparisons because school systems have the flexibility to test at any time of the year. Fulton administered the test in September to grades three, five, and eight. Scores for individual schools are attached.

The Iowa Tests of Basic Skills are norm-referenced tests, which allow comparison of the performance of Fulton’s students with the performance of students in a national sample who are in the same grade and who took the tests at the same point in the school year. The ITBS is not a measure of what a child should know in his or her current grade level, but rather a measure of what children have learned over their entire time in school. Scores are presented in percentiles.