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Product Description
The California Achievement Test (CAT) is one of the most widely used of the student assessments for basic academic skills. The CAT provides educators, students and their parents with a measure of achievement and national comparison in reading, language, spelling, and mathematics.
Meeting most state and umbrella school requirements for annual testing, the California Achievement Test offered by Academic Excellence provides insight into students' scholastic progress by scoring grade equivalency, percentile ranking, and stanine. Click here for an explanation of the scores.
Benefits of utilizing Academic Excellence online achievement testing include:
◦ Reliable and up-to-date results based on biannual norming
◦ Freedom to test according to your schedule
◦ No bachelor’s degree required for test administration
◦ Flexibility to divide tests into multiple sessions, as needed
◦ Our tests do not expire
◦ Stress free testing with complete proctoring by the online system
◦ Immediate scores and results
◦ 24/7 access to tests and results
◦ Printable results
◦ Device friendly; access using desktop, laptop, and/or tablet with no scrolling necessary to take the test
◦ Professionally developed and produced with the permission of the original publisher
◦ Widely recognized and accepted by state and local educational agencies
Certificate of Completion: As an added value to our customers, Academic Excellence is pleased to provide a free, printable certificate of achievement to all students who complete an AE California Achievement Test. You can view a sample of the certificate here.
Premium Scoring: Receive additional scoring, such as composite scores, along with charts and graphs for easier analysis of test results. Click here to view a sample premium scoring report.
Practice Test: We understand that parents may have some reservations prior to the first time their students take an online test. As an option, we offer an additional practice CAT in order to acclimate students to the online testing process. This test is approximate 25% the length of the actual test, and provides only a count of the correctly answered questions. If this option fits your need, please select it above.
Recommendation Service: Academic Excellence's independent recommendation service is for home educators who would like to receive customized curriculum recommendations based upon the achievement test results. Academic Excellence is not affiliated with any curriculum publisher and provides objective, experienced feedback on curriculum. The Academic Excellence staff have been involved in home education since 1987 and have extensive experience with curriculum providers and the spectrum of homeschooling philosophies.
The resource recommendations from Academic Excellence are strategically selected to strengthen and improve competency and mastery in academic areas presented in standardized testing. These key selected resources make excellent "tutoring aides" and addenda to any curriculum. Our goal in developing the Academic Excellence recommendation service is to provide parents with user friendly, economical resources that strengthen students' academic achievement and testing skills; focus tutoring and teaching efforts; and facilitate preparation for and success in ACT, SAT, and college testing. All recommendations are based upon the student's test scores and our staff's extensive experience with home education. Each of the primary recommendations are provided in correlation to individual students' scores to questions and sections of standardized tests. Secondary resources are often challenging, educational games or less formal learning practices. Each recommendation is measured by ease of use by parents; levels of response, enjoyment, and success by students; and affordability. By targeting and addressing students' deficit areas with easy to use and economical tutorial resources, test scores, grades, and confidence elevate and improve. Recommendations in students' areas of proficiency keep students engaged, challenged, and progressing in all subject areas. We have found this to be an easy, economical way to ensure academic excellence and success.
Ordering Instructions:
◦ Student First Name - Enter the first name of the student to be tested in the space provided.
◦ Student Last Name - Enter the last name of the student to be tested in the space provided.
◦ Grade Level - If you are testing in the middle of school year, select the student's current grade level. If you are testing at the end of school year or between school years, select the next grade level for the student; not the student's past grade level.
◦ Premium Scoring - Now standard on all full tests at no extra charge.
◦ Add Practice CAT - Select if you would like to receive a practice online achievement test for your student.
◦ Recommendation Service - Indicate if you want Curriculum Recommendation Service.
◦ Add to Cart - Enter information for one student only, then select the Add to Cart button.
Once you have placed your California Achievement Test purchase with Academic Excellence, you will receive both an order confirmation and an email containing the user name and password to log into the Academic Excellence education portal. Please allow up to twenty minutes to receive this email and check your spam folder if you do not receive the email.
If you wish to purchase testing services for another student, or wish to make other purchases, select the Continue Shopping link after viewing your shopping cart.
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Thorough test!
This is a great resource for testing! It was easy to administer. My students(10 & 12) had no trouble navigating through the test. Scoring was quick and straightforward. Thank you Academic Excellence for a great resource!! Jodi on 12th Jun 2020
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Great option
I love being able to do my kids' testing online. This is a great way to do it. I am very happy with academic excellence. They offer many options. I especially love the quick test results when testing is completed. I will continue to use in the future! Teresa Kite on 28th May 2020
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Excellent
I use these every year for end of year testing in my home schooling. Heather on 11th May 2020
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Good test, easy to administer
The state we live in requires homeschoolers to do standardized testing each year. We've used the Iowa test in the past (for about 5 years), and it is a lot. For the last 2 years we've used the California (CAT), and I am satisfied with it. It is a bit shorter than the Iowa (covers 3 areas—reading, grammar, and math—whereas the Iowa also includes social studies and science). I like that we can do the CAT online and the results are available quickly (same day). You also have the flexibility to do as many or as few sections per day as is suitable for each student. In addition, I appreciate the option of "premium" scoring (for only $3 extra), which uses charts and graphs to enhance the understanding of test scores. The only thing that threw us off (during the test) was a question that utilized the term "morpheme" in the grammar section—which simply means the smallest unit of a language (such as -ing). Apparently we haven't encountered that term in any of our grammar curricula thus far. Sara K. on 16th Apr 2020
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9th grade homeschool benchmark
I am just wanting to keep a record of how my son is progressing throughout highschool - we also used the CAT untimed in 6th, and timed in 8th. We have found that the CAT timed test has proven an accurate representation and excellent way to measure his growth over the years. I love having the Stanine and percentile scores as well as approximate grade equivalent. Even though the information is just for me, I feel more confident by having this benchmark. C.V. on 10th Apr 2020
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CAT 10th grade
The CAT is a great tool to use if you homeschool your child/children. My daughter recently took the CAT for 10th grade. The test set up was user friendly. Taking the test online was much better than coloring in the little circles in person testing requires. The test was broken down into sections - grammar, math, and reading. It didn't make the test seem so daunting to the student. I would definitely recommend this product to parents of homeschooled children. Test results are delivered to your email right away and they offer products to help the student prepare for the test beforehand. María Diaz on 24th Oct 2019
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Simple, fast, and useful
I was so glad to come across this resource. It was suggested by another homeschool mom and it was so easy to register and complete the testing for my kids. The results were sent almost immediately and have helped me to identify areas of strength and areas for improvement. I'm excited to have a baseline to compare to at the end of the year. Megan on 28th Aug 2019
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Excellent resource
This test is an excellent tool to help see where your child compares to others. This is great for parents who procrastinated and need to quickly get in the end of year standardized tests. This is not an in-depth personal analysis of the students skills, this is a standardized test. The computer does all the hard work, as an adult, you just have to make sure testing procedures are followed. Beth on 26th Aug 2019
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Excellent Experience!
This was a great experience as we tried testing for the first time rather than an assessment by a local qualified teacher. We have home schooled for a combined total (2 boys) of 16 years so far, and I felt like it would be a good thing to do the testing this year, since my older son is starting high school this fall of 2019. The tests were easy to work through in their layout and methods. I would recommend them to anyone else! We had a couple of issues with one of the boys' tests where a section was accidentally checked as though he had completed it when he hadn't. It was done by the company, and when I called, they reset it for him and everything turned out fine. Excellent response with customer service! SK on 13th Aug 2019
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Great Test!
This was my first year testing my first grader and this test was perfect! We used the timed, online version and it was very user friendly! I loved the fact that we could preview a question from each section to know what to expect as well as know exactly how much time we would spend on each section. I also appreciated the reading aloud of each question, since my son is still learning to read on a basic level. I plan on using this test as long as I need to test my kids! Unknown on 6th Aug 2019
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