What is the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS)?
The ITBS is a comprehensive standardized assessment test that evaluates a student’s level in the major subject areas including Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Science. The language arts section includes reading vocabulary, and word analysis to assess how well students can recognize letters and letter-sound relationships. Reading comprehension is assessed using print, context, and picture cues to identify unfamiliar words; completing sentences that tell about a picture by choosing a word for filling in a blank; and answering multiple-choice questions after reading a brief story. The math section includes math concepts and problem solving which involves solving brief word problems and interpreting information presented in graphs and tables.
