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Group Reading Assessment & Diagnostic Evaluation

GRADE
The Group Reading Assessment and Diagnostic Evaluation (GRADE™ ) is a diagnostic reading test that determines what developmental skills PreK–12 students have mastered and where students need instruction or intervention.

Effective 7/31/24, Pearson is retiring the GRADE. Print materials are available while supplies last. Please contact us for other assessment options!

Overview

Age range:
GRADE Online: Grades 2-12, Adult; GRADE: PreK-12, Adult

Scores/Interpretation:
Stanines, Percentiles, Grade Equivalents, Age Equivalents, Standard Scores, Norm Curve Equivalents, and Growth Scale Values

Qualification level:
B

Qualification Level

 

Level A

This approval level enables you to buy our assessments that require no professional degree, accreditation, organization membership, or license/certificate.

Level B

This approval level enables you to buy our assessments requiring A or B qualification levels.

Level C

This approval level enables you to buy all our assessments.

Completion time:
50-90 minutes

Administration:
GRADE Online: Online; GRADE: Full Battery, Paper/Pencil

Forms:
GRADE Online: 10 Levels with two parallel forms for each level; GRADE: 8 Levels with two parallel forms for each level

Scoring options:
GRADE Online: Online Scoring and Reporting; GRADE: Hand Scoring

Norms:
Norm-Referenced Fall and Spring, Grade-based

Telepractice:
Guidance on using this test in your telepractice

Ordering

License Window Use of Purchase is the School Year (8/1 - 7/31). All licenses expire on 7/31 each school calendar year. Licenses DO NOT ROLL OVER.

Returning GRADE customers

Items and Pricing

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First time GRADE customers

Items and Pricing

A minimum order charge of $300.00 is required if you are purchasing this online product for the first time. Submit a request to place your order and set up your CAP online testing account.

Request your CAP Assessment Platform testing account

One price per student subscription, per school year for unlimited ONLINE forms.

The per student license subscription enables you to test the same student as many times as needed during the school year (between August 1 and July 31).

Contact us for details: +1 (800) 328-5999.

 

Product Details

GRADE and GRADE Online help determine which developmental reading skills students have mastered and where they need instruction or intervention.

Benefits

  • Enable timely administration (including whole group administration with GRADE), instruction, and intervention with real-time scoring that provides immediate results.
  • Track student growth with two parallel forms and Growth Scale Values (GSVs).
  • Communicate assessment data in a variety of meaningful ways with four group reports and four individual student reports.
  • Move through the assessment cycle easily and quickly to show progress using related products that provide focused instruction.
  • Meet eligibility requirements for Title I funding.
  • Use as part of an RTI program to pinpoint strengths and weaknesses for struggling students so that appropriate targeted instructional interventions can be created.

Features

The GRADE Resource Library, an extensive CD collection, includes stimulating activities, worksheets, and book lists correlated to all GRADE items. It also includes six subtests that measure literacy competency:

  • Word Reading
  • Sentence Comprehension
  • Word Meaning
  • Passage Comprehension
  • Vocabulary
  • Listening Comprehension

Sample Reports

GRADE and GRADE Online flexible reporting capabilities give teachers a detailed analysis at the individual and classroom level.

Resources

The following resources are available for GRADE.

 

The following resources are available for GRADE Online.

 

FAQs

When will GRADE/GMADE retire?

Effective July 31, 2024, Pearson is discontinuing the sale of GRADE and GMADE assessments. You can keep using GRADE and GMADE for the rest of this school year and we'll support you all the way up to July 31. Before this takes place, we recommend transitioning to aimswebPlus™ , which offers evaluation and progress monitoring of your students’ core math and reading skills on one platform and is accessible from any web-enabled device.

I received a letter stating that all GRADE/GMADE content had been moved to aimswebPlus™. Does that mean I can continue testing GRADE/GMADE if I buy aimswebPlus?

No; the GRADE/GMADE content has been provided to the aimswebPlus team, but this does not mean all GRADE/GMADE content has been selected for use or added to live edition of aimswebPlus. Additionally, content from GRADE/GMADE that has been added to aimswebPlus is not distinguishable or labeled as GRADE/GMADE.

What will happen to my data?

Customers who do not transition for the 24-25 school year will have 90 days after 8/1 to export their data before it is purged. Once the purge happens, data sets are NOT retrievable. 

 

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