Standardized Tests – Mason Dixon Homeschoolers Association

The Pennsylvania School Code, 24 P.S. §13-1327.1(e)(1) states that the portfolio for home education students in grades 3, 5, and 8 must include the results of the statewide tests for reading/language arts and mathematics OR nationally normed standardized achievement tests. If the supervisor of the home education program requests that the student(s) take the PSSA, the school district must allow the student to take the test at the school building the home education student would normally attend or other accommodations agreed to by the school district and the parent.

The Department has approved the following nationally normed standardized tests for use by home education programs if they choose not to take the statewide test:

California Achievement Test
Comprehensive Testing Program (CTPIV)
Iowa Test of Basic Skills
Measures of Academic Progress (MAP)*
Metropolitan Achievement Test
Peabody Achievement Individual Test – Revised Version
Stanford Achievement Test
Terra Nova
Woodcock-Johnson Revised Tests of Achievement III
Woodcock-Johnson IV
Wechsler Individual Achievement Test III (WIAT-III)

*The PDE added “Measures of Academic Progress (MAP)” on February 1, 2017. This is an untimed computerized test. For more information about MAP, visit the Northwest Evaluation Association.