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New Star Reading Assessment Measures Middle School Literacy

Computer-generated test results will help educators enhance language arts instruction and curricula for students.

Hopatcong Middle School is implementing a new program to assess students' success in reading, according to Hopatcong Borough Schools.

The school's language arts department is using the Star Reading Assessment, a test aligned to the new Common Core Standards governing education in New Jersey, according to Superintendent of Schools Cynthia Randina. The examination is designed to provide a diagnostic evaluation of students’ knowledge of grade level content.  

A district statement said the schoolwide results from the computer-generated test will provide teachers and administrators with data that will be used to enhance instruction, to re-sequence and revise curricula and to develop indiviudal remedial plans for students.  

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Randina said a similar assessment program is in place to evaluate students’ mathematics skills with the intent to raise the district’s NJ ASK standardized test scores.


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