Show Completes Achievement Tests October means testing time with the students at Bountiful Junior High School and especially especially espe esp this year when four ma ma- jor wide county-wide tests will be ad administered administered administered ad- ad ministered to the students BOTH THE and grades take an achievement series type of ot test this year These tests are identical and differ only in that each is adaptable to ea each h particular grade level The test results of both are plotted for each Individual on an Individual test profile These are given to the student for his study and for tor home to parents for their inspection and consideration The profiles are then returned to the school and filed In the students student's permanent permanent permanent per per- manent record file TEACHERS counselors and the schools school's administration use these test results to know where whereto to best assist students Individually individually vidI vid- I and as a group and the the results assist in plans for tor the improvement of ot English mathematics mathematics mathematics math math- science and social studies courses Since the grade students took the same t test st as the grade students It Is then possible possible possible pos pos- sible to compare the progress made in various areas for each individual and for tor the class asa asa as asa a whole This too gives some measure of the quality of ot in instruction instruction instruction in- in and student learning THE SECOND battery of tests given the graders is a two period test which gives a measure measure measure meas meas- ure of the individuals individual's mental maturity Ninth graders take their second second second sec sec- ond test known nationally as the GATE General Aptitude Test Battery This la is refined vo vocational vocational vocational vo- vo aptitude test and re results results results re- re are used for vocational counseling and high school course planning In this counseling counseling counseling coun coun- procedure the students student's parents are invited to the Boun Bountiful Junior High School where parents student and the school counselor sit down and interpret the students student's test results and their vocational meaning g. g Possible Possible Possible Pos Pos- sible high school and college plans are discussed as they pertain to the students student's test results COUNSELOR John Ted Arbon said Parents have responded to this grade counseling program program program pro pro- gram almost in the past two years since Its inception at the school |