Holyoke Community Charter School

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Internal Assessments

SABIS^® has developed a patented testing program that assesses student learning. The program incorporates weekly testing in the form of SABIS Academic Monitoring System^® (SABIS AMS^TM) tests and Periodic Exams for both the lower school and upper school. Final examinations are given at the end of each term.
The multiple choice AMS^TM tests are computerized tests developed by SABIS^® to determine whether the students are learning the essential and important concepts being taught. Administration and teachers receive a highly detailed, sophisticated, computerized report of students’ AMS^TM results.

This report determines whether students are ready to move on to new material, teachers need to re-teach certain concepts, or whether some students need tutoring. Students and teachers look forward to the weekly results.

Periodic Exams follow the same basic format as the AMS^TM tests; however, they are more comprehensive in that they cover the material that has been taught over a longer time frame. They include short answer, open response, and essay questions.