Understanding Scores
Progress Report
We're here to help you understand the customized score report created by your student’s school to communicate assessment results and any recommended feedback for your student. These reports provide easy-to-read test results and may also include commentary from your school about your student's progress.
Who is ERB?
If your student attends an independent school, chances are you only know us for the ISEE—the Independent School Entrance Exam. But ERB is actually so much more than just admissions testing. We're an industry-leading educational advisory company. That means we offer schools and families a variety of different tests, educational software, and other services to help them monitor and grow a student's knowledge year after year. Some of these services are only available to schools but others are also offered directly to families.
What is this test?
Your Progress Report provides you with a graph of your student’s performance over time. Scores are available for two different tests—CTP and Milestones. Your school uses only the tests that it finds most valuable, so you may receive scores for just the CTP, just Milestones, or both.
Understanding Scores
Test Info
This report lists your student's scores by subtest. Be sure to review your student's scores for each subtest. Not every school uses all available subtests, and subtests will vary by test and grade. The green symbols in the key at the bottom of the graph tell you which test(s) your student took—solid circles display CTP scores and outlined circles display Milestones scores. The first row of the table indicates in which years and seasons your student took the subtest.
Graph
The green line or points on the graph show how your student’s scores have changed over a period of time for a specific subtest. You'll see a line graph here if your student took the same subtest at least two times. There may be instances when there is only a single point on the graph—this means that your student took the subtest just once. Scores from a maximum of ten tests can be displayed so you may not see scores for every test your student has taken over the years.
Make note of the short blue lines flanking each point on the graph. These lines indicate the maximum and the minimum possible score for each year that your student tested.
Scaled Scores
The table below the graph lists your student's scaled scores. Scaled scores are based on the number of questions your student answered correctly as well as the difficulty of those questions. For example, if your student answered 25 hard questions correctly they will have a higher scaled score than if they answered 25 easy questions correctly.
Scores from a maximum of ten tests can be displayed so you may not see scores for every test your student has taken over the years. If there were certain years that your student did not take the selected subtest, there will be blank spaces on the table.
Time On Test (Optional)
Your report may or may not include this section, as your school will decide whether or not this information is valuable for families. The time your student spent on each subtest is displayed first, followed by the maximum amount of time allowed to complete the subtest. These times are displayed in minutes.
If the allotted time says “Untimed,” then there was no set period of time for the student to complete the test. If your student's testing time says "Not Available," they took a paper test for which time was not tracked. If the time spent on the test exceeds the allotted time, your student may have received testing accommodations that allowed them to take more time.
What's Next?
ERB uses the Standards for Psychological & Educational Testing to guide the development and validation of its assessments. These Standards include certain guidelines on how to use and not use test scores. ERB advises schools and families on these guidelines to promote appropriate score use.
Talk to your school if you still have questions.
Your student's school makes all administration decisions for these tests—they choose the test format, dates, subtests, and the reports that families receive. Contact your school with any additional questions about the test(s) your student took or about understanding your scores.
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