What Tests Are Used at Cloverleaf?

Cloverleaf employs a wide-range of formative and summative tools to assess the learning of our enrolled students. At the elementary level, our staff utilizes measures from the  DIBELS (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Learning Skills) program at the University of Oregon and materials created by Fountas & Pinnell to determine which students are on target for grade level reading benchmarks. Our staff also uses running records, Rigby leveling, and other methods to assess reading at these grades as well.

Group administered testing is completed with the IOWA Tests of Basic Skills and COGAT (general intelligence) measures at certain grade levels throughout the district to assist in the gifted identification process. Additional tests such as the Otis-Lennon School Aptitude Test (OLSAT) or the Stanford Achievement Tests are used in certain cases when a student's eligibility is in question. 

Cloverleaf also participates in the Ohio Achievement Assessments and Ohio Graduation Test programs mandated by the Ohio Department of Education. All students in grades 3 through 8 and grade 10 are required to participate in this testing, in some fashion. For those students whose disabilities are so severe that typical forms of assessment would not be valid, an alternate assessment procedure has been developed to ensure that data is available even in these cases.

Please see the Testing Plan (District) for specific details about our current testing programs and the Alternate Assessment Determination Form to examine how that participation style is determined.

When a student is originally suspected of having a disability, specific procedural safeguards come into play to ensure that individually administered instruments that are well researched and designed to identify specific problems are used. Our related service providers use a number of different nationally normed and standardized instruments to help identify student needs in these cases. Once the appropriate referral form is completed and the school-based team agrees that a disability is suspected, the Evaluation Planning Form is completed to fully inform parents of what measures will be used to assess their child throughout the eligibility process.