Terra Nova Testing at St. Laurentius Catholic elementary school will begin on Thursday March 11 with In-View Testing for grades 3-7. Terra Nova Testing is a standardized achievement test to measure a student’s performance in reading, English language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies. The publishers of Terra Nova, McGraw-Hill, access students’ results based on a norm-reference scale. Instead of students receiving a grade, scores of all students participating in Terra Nova are compared. Each student is then placed in a national percentile.

Friday will be the reading section, Monday will be language, and Tuesday will be Mathematics. No testing will take place on Wednesday to give students a break and celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. Thursday’s assessment will be on science and the assessment will be wrapped up on Friday March 19 with social studies. If a student misses a day of testing they can make up that section either the next day after the scheduled assessment or in the makeup window, March 22-26. Students are advised to eat a good breakfast, be well rested, and show up early to prepare for the test.