Revised each year, the Closed HSPT® is available only as part of a lease/score program. As part of this program, a school can lease Closed HSPT® materials and receive the Closed HSPT® Standard Scoring Service at no additional cost. Additional services include Performance Profiles, Individual and Group Item Analysis Reports, and standard reports for alternate groups. By using a special answer sheet, a school can also receive lists of student addresses, address labels, and notification forms.
The Closed HSPT® provides national normative measures in the following cognitive and basic skills areas: verbal and quantitative skills, reading, mathematics, and language. Optional tests in science (25 min.), mechanical aptitude (15 min.), and Catholic religion (20 min.) are available at no additional cost.
Cognitive skills quotients (CSQs), standard scores, national and local percentiles, as well as grade equivalents are standard features of Closed HSPT® reports. The Rasch Item-Response Theory one-parameter model was used to develop the standard score scale and enables reliable year-to-year comparisons to be made.
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