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The '''Iowa Tests of Educational Development (ITED)''' are a set of [[standardized tests]] given annually to [[Secondary education in the United States|high school]] students in many schools in the United States, covering Grades 9 to 12. The tests were created by the [[University of Iowa]]'s [[University of Iowa College of Education|College of Education]] in 1942, as part of a program to develop a series of nationally accepted standardized achievement tests.
The primary goal of the ITED is to provide information to assist educators in improving teaching.<ref name=ITEDhome>https://web.archive.org/web/20110506042222/http://www.education.uiowa.edu/itp/ited/Default.aspx ITED: Iowa Tests of Educational Development”. University of Iowa.</ref>

==Goals of the ITED==
Rather than testing a student's content knowledge, the ITED endeavors to evaluate students' skills in a variety of areas, especially based on [[problem solving]] and critical analysis of texts.<ref name=ITEDhome/> These are considered by the authors of the ITED to be skills acquired across multiple curricular areas and skills that are important for academic success.<ref name=ITEDpurposes>https://web.archive.org/web/20110102221715/http://www.education.uiowa.edu/itp/ited/ited_about_prp.aspx ”Purposes – About the Tests – ITED: Iowa Tests of Educational Development” University of Iowa.</ref> Within the skill areas evaluated by the ITED, the test is designed to elicit information about a student's current skill level, growth and abilities within each area tested. The ITED is designed to examine and compare a student's ability in several educational fields, including vocabulary, reading comprehension, language, spelling, mathematical concepts and problem solving, computation, analysis of social studies materials, analysis of science materials, and use of sources. Although the test is broken up into these fields, the goal of the ITED is to track the development of the skills and analysis needed in each of these areas rather than the content.<ref name=ITEDpurposes/>

==ITED Sections==

===Vocabulary===
The [[vocabulary]] section of the ITED focuses on testing the development of students' vocabulary for everyday communication.<ref name=ITEDdescription>https://web.archive.org/web/20110102221714/http://www.education.uiowa.edu/itp/ited/ited_about_desc.aspx “Description – About the Tests – ITED: Iowa Tests of Educational Development”. University of Iowa. Retrieved 2009-09-07.</ref><ref name=Riverside>http://www.riverpub.com/products/ited/details.html “Riverside Publishing - Iowa Tests of Educational Development (ITED) Details”. Riverside Publishing. Retrieved 2009-09-07.</ref>

===Reading Comprehension===
The [[reading comprehension]] section of the ITED tests literal understanding as well as the higher-level skills of inference and analysis.<ref name=ITEDdescription/><ref name=Riverside/>

===Language: Revising Written Materials===
The [[language]] section of the ITED focuses on students' ability to revise and edit texts, include issues of style and clarity as well as grammatical errors.<ref name=ITEDdescription/><ref name=Riverside/>

===Spelling===
The ITED [[spelling]] test presents students with groups of words; students must indicate which word is misspelled or whether they are all spelled correctly.<ref name=ITEDdescription/><ref name=Riverside/>

===Mathematics: Concepts and Problem Solving===
This section focuses on problem solving and [[critical thinking|logical thinking]] skills rather than mathematical computation. Some questions require basic computation while others require students to determine the steps necessary to solve a problem without actually completing the problem itself.<ref name=ITEDdescription/><ref name=Riverside/>

===Analysis of Social Studies Materials===
This ITED section requires students to analyze information presented to them and will often contain documents including [[map]]s, [[graphics|graphs]] and reading passages.<ref name=ITEDdescription/><ref name=Riverside/>

===Analysis of Science Materials===
The science materials section of the ITED evaluates students' familiarity and comfort with [[Scientific method|scientific procedures]] and their ability to understand and analyze scientific information and methods.<ref name=ITEDdescription/><ref name=Riverside/>

===Sources of Information===
The sources of information section tests students' ability to do research and to use the resources available to them to find information.<ref name=ITEDdescription/><ref name=Riverside/>

==Uses of the ITED==
The ITED is used in the majority of schools in the state of [[Iowa]], both in the [[Public education|public]] and [[private education]] sectors, and the tests have found some use in other regions of the United States. The ITED is administered in the fall <ref name=EBSCOtestingarticle>Ansley, Timothy N. Forsyth; Robert A (1990). “An Investigation of the Nature of the Interaction of Reading and Computational Abilities in Solving Mathematics Word Problems”. Applied Measurement in Education 3(5), 319-330.</ref><ref name=ProQuest>Shymansky, James A.; Enger, Sandra; Chidsey, Jennifer L.; Yore, Larry D; et al. (1997). “Performance Assessment in Science as a Tool to Enhance the Picture of Student Learning”. School Science and Mathematics, 97(4), 172-183.</ref> and results are used along with classroom observation and student work by teachers to evaluate the progress of a student's abilities.<ref name=ITEDpurposes/> The ITED results are also used by the state of Iowa to monitor schools' progress and determine if schools and students are meeting goals.<ref name=GreatSchools>http://www.greatschools.net/students/local-facts-resources/testing-in-IA.gs?content=463 “Testing in Iowa: An Overview”. GreatSchools.net. Retrieved 2009-09-07.</ref>
Individual student ITED results are used to help determine placements and tracks. The ITED helps educators and students plan student schedules by providing information for the school to use in placing students in classes of varying levels of difficulty. The results also provide information about students' academic potential, assisting students and school advisors as they make their high school course selections and plan for college.<ref name=Qualls>Qualls, Audrey L.; Ansley, Timothy N (1995). “The Predictive Relationship of ITBS and ITED to Measures of Academic Success”. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 55, 485-98.</ref>
The ITED is scored based on the number of questions a student answered correctly.<ref name=schrader>von Schrader, Sarah; Ansley, Timothy (2006). “Sex Differences in the Tendency to Omit Items on Multiple-Choice Tests: 1980-2000”. Applied Measurement in Education, 19(1), 41-65.</ref> Research has indicated that there is a correlation between ITED scores and student grade point averages (GPAs), although these correlations were lower than expected and lower than indicated by prior research.<ref name=Qualls/>

==See also==
* [[Education in the United States]]
* [[High school#United States|High school—United States]]
* [[Iowa#Education|Iowa education]]
* [[Iowa Tests of Basic Skills]]
* [[Secondary education in the United States]]
* [[Standardized tests]]

==References==
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==Further reading==
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*Qualls, Audrey L.; Ansley, Timothy N (1995). “The Predictive Relationship of ITBS and ITED to Measures of Academic Success”. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 55, 485-98
*Shymansky, James A.; Enger, Sandra; Chidsey, Jennifer L.; Yore, Larry D; et al. (1997). “Performance Assessment in Science as a Tool to Enhance the Picture of Student Learning”. School Science and Mathematics, 97(4), 172-183.
*Ansley, Timothy N. Forsyth; Robert A (1990). “An Investigation of the Nature of the Interaction of Reading and Computational Abilities in Solving Mathematics Word Problems”. Applied Measurement in Education 3(5), 319-330. {{refend}}

==External links==
* [http://www.education.uiowa.edu/itp/ Iowa Testing Programs]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20051122044004/http://www.usoe.k12.ut.us/eval/Info_IOWA.asp Utah State Office Of Education: Assessment & Accountability - The IOWA Tests]
* [http://www.riverpub.com/products/ited/details.html Riverside Publishing - Iowa Tests of Educational Development (ITED) Details]
* [http://www.greatschools.net/students/local-facts-resources/testing-in-IA.gs?content=463 Testing in Iowa: An Overview]

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