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  • Organizations: Local

    Amend Psychological Services, PSC (Lexington, KY)
    Amend Psychological Services provides comprehensive psychological services including assessment and evaluation, consultations, counseling, and therapy for children, adolescents, and their families. Populations served in our practice include: students with LD, ADHD, or other learning and behavior difficulties; gifted/talented students; special needs students; twice exceptional learners; children experiencing life adjustments associated with divorce, grief and loss, and other family transitions; and, children with chronic illness or chronic pain such as migraines.

  • Organizations: National

    ACT, Inc. (Iowa City, IA)
    ACT is an independent, not-for-profit organization that provides more than a hundred assessment, research, information, and program management services in the broad areas of education and workforce development. Though designed to meet a wide array of needs, all ACT programs and services have one guiding purpose: to help people achieve education and career goals by providing information for life's transitions.
    Advanced Placement Program - The College Board
    This site provides comprehensive information about AP exams and courses, including participation, AP preparation, exam information, subject areas and FAQs.
    Buros Center for Testing
    This organization provides critical appraisals of tests and descriptive information, offering psychometric consultation services, and developing deeper understanding of testing and assessment practices.
    Greenwich Education Group
    Greenwich Education Group houses a rich array of academic resources, including subject tutoring, test preparation, day and boarding school advisory services serving gifted students, college counseling, diagnostic assessment, clinical and coaching services and social skills support.
    Sylvan Learning Center
    Sylvan Learning Center creates confident, independent students by discovering and targeting the causes of academic frustrations. Using the results of a comprehensive Skills Assessment, they create a personalized curriculum that addresses and eliminates underlying issues. Through positive reinforcement and their unique instructional method known as Mastery Learning, they ensure that each student achieves success. What's more, academic success translates into improved confidence and enthusiasm for learning — qualities that help students well beyond their years in school.
    The College Board
    The College Board is a national nonprofit membership association whose mission is to prepare, inspire, and connect students to college success and opportunity. Founded in 1900, the association is composed of more than 4,300 schools, colleges, universities, and other educational organizations.

  • Organizations: State

    California High School Proficiency Examination (CHSPE) (CA)
    Students who pass the CHSPE can earn the legal equivalent of a high school diploma. The CHSPE consists of two sections: an English-language Arts section and a Mathematics section. If students pass both sections of the CHSPE, the California State Board of Education will award a Certificate of Proficiency, which by state law is equivalent to a high school diploma (although not equivalent to completing all coursework required for regular graduation from high school).

  • Printed Materials: Books

    Ace the SAT Math: Success Strategies for the Perfect Score
    Written by Dan Celenti, Ph.D., this book covers arithmetic concepts such as integers, factors, proportions, and permutations; algebra; geometry; and additional topics such as probability and weighted average, offering students an in-depth look at the types of problems found on the test. In addition to the problem-solving experience and exposure to a wide range of math topics and degrees of difficulty, this holistic approach allows the students to get a glimpse into the "real thing" and experience the impact of time constraints on their performance.
    Advanced Placement Programs and Gifted Students (The Practical Strategies Series in Gifted Education)
    One of the predominant service delivery options for secondary gifted students in America's high schools for the past two decades has been the Advanced Placement (AP) program. Written by Elisaa F. Brown, Ph.D., the book addresses misconceptions about AP courses, the benefits of AP courses for gifted learners, suggested core and targeted teaching strategies for differentiation within AP courses, and supporting and impeding structures for implementing and sustaining a coherent AP program within a high school program of studies.
    Essentials of Gifted Assessment (Essentials of Psychological Assessment) 1st Edition
    This book introduces readers to the theory and practice underlying gifted assessment. Steven Pfeiffer, a leading expert in the field of gifted assessment, discusses what it means to be gifted, why we should identify gifted students, and the purposes of gifted assessment.
    Finding Your Way through the Maze of College Prep Tests: A Guide to APs and SAT Subject Tests with Tips for Homeschoolers and Accelerated Learners
    Written by the parent of a gifted student, this book is filled with information that parents and students may find helpful when making decisions about pre-college planning and testing. The following questions are addressed. Are you a high school student trying to decide on college prep courses? Are you a parent wondering about APs and how they affect your student's high school and college plans? Are you homeschooling through high school and need resources for tackling college prep work and the details about how to register for testing? This reference will guide you through the ins and outs of AP exams and SAT Subject Tests, including answers to: Are there special rules for homeschoolers or pre-high school students?
    McGraw-Hill/Steck-Vaughn Test Prep Books Grades 1-8
    This series of Test Prep books are the first program ever developed to help students become more familiar with the test-taking experience. The lessons in the books were created after an analysis of five of the most popular achievement tests. The content reflects the types of material that students will encounter when testing.
    Parent's Guide to Standardized Tests for Grades 3-5
    Parent's Guide to Standardized Tests for Grades 3-5 is a complete guide to understanding tests and preparing your child for a successful test-taking experience. The book provides an overview of standardized tests, practical home activities to reinforce math and verbal skills, effective test-taking strategies, and a list of state test websites.
    Perfect 800: Advanced Strategies for Top Students - SAT Math (Updated ed.)
    Perfect 800: SAT Math gives advanced students the tools needed to master the SAT math test. Covering areas including arithmetic concepts, algebra, geometry, and additional topics such as probability and weighted average, the book offers exposure to a wide range of degrees of difficulty in a holistic approach that allows students to experience the “real thing,” including the impact of time constraints on their performance.
    Perfect 800: Advanced Strategies for Top Students - SAT Verbal
    The book allows students to perfect their vocabulary and editing skills by completing the activities on more than 100 practice sessions and quizzes. By offering important information on word parts, origins, grammar, and other necessary knowledge, Perfect 800: SAT Verbal gives students the opportunity to increase their understanding of the vocabulary commonly seen on the SAT test.
    SAT Vocabulary Express: Word Puzzles Designed to Decode the New SAT
    This book by Jacqueline Byrne and Michael Ashley includes all kinds of puzzles: crosswords, anagrams, acrostics, cryptograms and more. In a crossword puzzle built around common SAT wrods, you must think of all the possible words for a definition or clue and try to come up with a word that will fit in the given blanks, rejecting the longer and shorter possibilities and homing in on the correct lenght answer.
    The Case Against Standardized Testing: Raising the Scores, Ruining the Schools
    Alfie Kohn has been described as "perhaps the country's most outspoken critic of education's fixation on grades [and] test scores." In this book, his central message is that standardized tests are "not a force of nature but a force of politics...and can be questioned, challenged and ultimately reversed."
    The RocketReview Revolution: The Ultimate Guide to the New SAT
    RocketReview is an online software program that uses artificial intelligence to predict exactly how actual SAT readers would grade an essay. It also provides customized suggestions on how to improve scores. This CD-ROM also features animated demonstrations of every major SAT technique. Readers will learn the most advanced SAT techniques ever created, many of which have never before been revealed to the general public.
    THEA Practice Tests
    The THEA Test is designed to provide information about reading, mathematics, and writing skills of students entering public colleges, universities, and educator preparation programs in public and private institutions. THEA has been approved by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board for use by Texas institutions of higher education as an assessment instrument for entering students. THEA provides the diagnostic data required by this legislation.
    Up Your Score: The Underground Guide to the SAT and ACT
    Updated with new versions on a yearly basis, this book series is an excellent resource for any student preparing for the SAT or ACT. They are the only test-prep guides written by actual students who aced the test. These kids have been in your shoes, so they know what you want: proven strategies for outsmarting the tests, of course, alongside heaping portions of humor, illustration, and the latest pop culture references.

  • Printed Materials: Online Documents

    College Admissions and the SAT: A Personal Perspective
    The intent in this paper is to offer a personal perspective on the events that led to a major change in the SAT college admissions test. The new test will be in place for all students --nationwide--who must take the SAT as part of the admissions process for the college class entering in the fall of 2006. Hopefully, this account will be useful to those trying to change policies and practices deeply entrenched in our society.

  • Schools & Programs: College Affiliated

    Northwestern University's Midwest Academic Talent Search (NUMATS), Center for Talent Development (CTD) (Evanston, IL)
    NUMATS serves students in grades 3 through 9 in the Midwest and beyond. Through above-grade-level testing, NUMATS accurately identifies student ability; matches high-achieving students with appropriately challenging programs and resources, and serves as a gateway to programs and resources for gifted students both at Northwestern University as well as nation-wide. NUMATS also provides support to the parents and educators of academically talented students.

  • Summer Programs: Southern Region

    Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Educational Talent Search (Dallas, TX)
    SMU provides academic, career and financial counseling to students as they graduate from high school, transition to college and pursue their degrees. The staff helps students identify possible careers and understand the educational requirements for their careers. They also help students manage the college application process and complete financial aid applications.

  • Websites & Other Media: Commercial

    FunEducation
    This achievement test service provides study materials and diagnostic assessments to assist homeschooling parents with testing requirements.
    Kaplan Online Test Preparation Courses
    This distance learning program offers students help in preparing for a range of tests from elementary school through graduate school. Available online and as a CD-ROM curriculum, courses use sample tests and teach test-taking techniques for improving standardized test scores.
    Membean
    This company provides web based tools to help students excel at tests. They aim to bring evidence based, well researched instruction techniques out of learning labs and into everyday use.
    Physics Prep
    This website is designed to offer affordable interactive AP Physics test preparation courses designed to maximize student learning.
    Pro-Ed Online
    Pro-Ed, Inc. is a leading publisher of nationally standardized tests, resource and reference texts, curricular and therapy materials, and professional journals.
    Test Prep Review
    This website offers a variety of Free practice tests for many of the stardardized tests that a child may have to take. A few of the practice tests available are: ACT, SAT, LSAT, PSAT, Admission tests, and much more.
    The Critical Thinking Company
    The Critical Thinking Company's products help students achieve better grades and higher test scores through critical thinking exercises in reading, writing, math and science lessons. Students carefully analyze what they are learning, producing deeper understanding. Over time, students who practice critical thinking learn to apply it throughout their education and life.
    Varsity Tutors - Free Practice Tests
    This website provides a comprehensive suite of completely free practice tests, flashcards, and questions of the day for standardized tests and academic subjects of all levels.

  • Websites & Other Media: Informational

    ACT Assessment - Act, Inc.
    The ACT® test assesses high school students' general educational development and their ability to complete college-level work.
    American College Test (ACT)
    The ACT Assessment is a national college admission test with tests in English, Math, Reading and Science Reasoning. ACT results are accepted by virtually all U.S. colleges and universities.
    Abilities Tested: Academic Achievement: The ACT " measures the knowledge, understanding, and skills that you have acquired."
    AP Central - The College Board
    AP Central is the official online home for anyone interested in or involved with the Pre-AP or AP Programs&reg.
    California Achievement Test (CAT-5)
    The California Achievement Test (C.A.T./5)® is an excellent test for homeschools. The latest edition covers subjects normally taught in public and private schools nationwide, i.e. reading, language, spelling, mathematics, science and social studies.
    Abilities Tested: Academic Achievement
    CTP4 (ERB Achievement Testing) - Educational Records Bureau
    CTP 4 is a rigorous test battery designed to collect basic information about student achievement. Data are organized to answer the important questions of teachers, administrators, and parents about student performance in key areas of school achievement.
    Differential Ability Scales (DAS)
    Get more in-depth information with a single, child-friendly battery that assesses the multidimensional nature of abilities in children and adolescents. With attractive, colorful materials designed to hold attention, this test yields overall cognitive ability and achievement scores and provides a reliable measure of specific abilities.
    Abilities Tested: Overall Cognitive Ability, Specific Abilities, Achievement
    Grants and Contracts at ed.gov - U.S. Department of Education
    Grant opportunities from the U.S. Department of Education (ED) can be researched and applied for via this website. Application deadlines do apply. Applicable regulations, priorities and other information are available in the Federal Register notice.
    I-Excel

    I-Excel is offered by the Belin-Blank Center as a part of the Belin Exceptional Student Talent Search and assesses aptitude in math, science, English, and reading. I-Excel is an online test that uses an online platform developed by the Belin-Blank Center for use as an above-level assessment for very capable 4th through 6th graders. I-Excel licenses content developed by ACT that was designed to measure academic progress of junior high students. From that content, Belin-Blank has been identifying the academic talents of bright 4th- 6th grade students for over 20 years.

    Abilities Tested: Assesses aptitude in math, science, English, and reading.

    Internet4Classrooms - Printable Assessments for K-8
    This website offers printable assessment tests for multiple grade levels.
    Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS) Forms A, B and C
    The ITBS provides educators diagnostic data that can drive remediation and better preparation for other assessments. This test highlights the most important information for parents, teachers, and administrators through Snapshot reports.
    Iowa Tests of Educational Development (ITED)
    The Iowa Statewide Testing Program is a voluntary, nonprofit program for Iowa schools provided by the College of Education of The University of Iowa. ITED is used in grades 9-12 and schools subscribe to a comprehensive program of services: ITED test materials, scoring and reporting services and consultation.
    National Spanish Examinations (NSE)
    The National Spanish Examination is an online standardized assessment tool given throughout the United States. It measures vocabulary and grammar, listening comprehension and reading comprehension.
    Number2.com
    This website offers free test preparation tutorials for the ACT, SAT, and GRE, as well as a vocabulary builder, information on picking a college, and some financial aid resources. Number2.com is familiar with the kinds of problems and questions students often have and has done research to test out which programs work best and why. Number2.com was created by University professors and graduate students with years of experience in the area of test preparation.
    SAT Preparation Center - The College Board
    This webpage on the College Board's website includes everything you need to know in order to prepare for the SAT. Learn more about the SAT, register online, and get the latest information about the SAT Program. Register online and you can: choose your test date and test center; get immediate registration confirmation; view your scores early on the Web for no additional fee; receive your scores by e-mail; get recruited by colleges and universities.
    SAT Question of the Day App
    This free app helps high school students get an idea of what to expect on the SAT test by providing a daily test question and other test prep assistance.
    SAT vs. ACT: How do the tests compare?
    "What is the difference between the SAT and ACT? They're both standardized tests and they both factor into the college admissions process. To learn about the differences between the two tests and how they compare, take a look at" this website to learn more.
    SAT: The New SAT, SAT I, and SAT II
    The SAT measures your verbal reasoning, critical reading, and math problem solving skills. It tells you how well you use the skills and knowledge you've learned so far, both in and out of school. Abilities Tested: SAT: The New SAT, SAT I, and SAT II
    School and College Ability Test (SCAT)
    The SCAT measures specific abilities in the verbal and quantitative areas and provides information essential for making general decisions concerning level and pace of instruction. Because its focus is on aptitude,the SCAT should not be used in isolation to make decisions about specific educational objectives. Abilities Tested: Verbal Reasoning, Quantitative Reasoning
    Secondary Schools Admission Test (SSAT)
    The SSAT is a standardized test used by admission officers to assess the abilities of students seeking to enroll in an independent school. The SSAT measures the basic verbal, math, and reading skills students need for successful performance in independent schools.
    Spatial Test Battery (STB) - Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth (Baltimore, MD)
    The Spatial Test Battery (STB), developed by researchers at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth, is a collection of subtests that assess various types of visual-spatial ability. The STB is primarily for individuals who have an interest in, or demonstrated talents in, mathematics, computers, graphic design, and science. However, it may also be of interest to students who excel in the arts and humanities, as it may reveal unrecognized talents of which the student is not aware. Along with an assessment of the verbal and mathematical ability, the recognition of spatial ability provides a more comprehensive profile of talents that can be used for academic and career planning.
    Stanford Achievement Test
    The Stanford Achievement Test Series is the newest edition of one of the most respected achievement tests. To respond to the changing needs of today’s educators, this new edition offers flexibility, customization and access to information never before available with a national achievement test.
    Abilities Tested: Educational Achievement
    TerraNova Achievement Test
    TerraNova is a nationally standardized achievement test for grades two through 12. Various test options are available including Common Core, Multiple Assessments, Complete Battery, Survey and the Third Edition Online.
    TestDatesCentral.com
    This website provides information on the major standardized tests, such as dates, cost, how to register and more. There are also free preparation videos for each.
    The Preliminary Scholastic Assessment Test (PSAT) - The College Board
    The Preliminary Scholastic Assessment Test (PSAT) is published by The College Board as a 10th or 11th grade practice instrument for students taking the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) in the eleventh and twelfth grades. The PSAT is designed to help students identify academic strengths and weaknesses in preparation for their last two years of high school.
    The Princeton Review
    The Princeton Review helps students, parents, and educators achieve the best results at every stage of their educational careers. By focusing on preparation and practice, we help students improve their performance in the classroom and on standardized tests. Through our website, we help parents, teachers, students and schools navigate the complexities of school admissions.

  • Websites & Other Media: Learning Tools

    Free Test Online Prep
    free Test Online selected questions help students improve their standardized tests scores. No usernames or passwords are needed. This website is totally free. They are proud to help you test your math knowledge and increase your chances of admission to the college of your choice. They have practice tests for PSAT SAT Reasoning, SAT Subject, ACT, GMAT, AP, CLEP and the GRE.