Stanford 10 case studies

Stanford 10 · Put your knowledge to work in context.

The Stanford Achievement Test Series, Tenth Edition - widely called the Stanford 10 or SAT10 - is a norm-referenced achievement battery published by Pearson for school-age students. It is used by schools, districts, and approved testing environments to measure academic growth against a national comparison group rather than against a fixed pass mark, and results are typically reported as scaled scores, national percentile ranks, and stanines. The Stanford 10 case studies are 5 cases and about 2,832 words.

Setting the Right Text Level When Fluency and Comprehension Disagree

Okafor listens to Devon, a fourth grader, read a 220-word narrative aloud. He reads 96 words correct per minute with 11 miscues: six substitutions that preserve meaning ("home" for "house"), three omitted adjectives, and two nonwords on multisyllabic words.

537 words, about 3 min 2

Sorting Fraction Errors by Cause, Not by Count

Alvarez reviews twelve fraction items from a fifth-grade unit test; seven are correct. The five errors are: (1) 3/4 + 5/6 = 8/10; (2) 4 ÷ 1/2 = 2; (3) 0.6 × 0.4 = 2.4; (4) asked which is greater, 3/5 or 5/8, he writes 3/5 "because fifths are bigger than eighths"; (5) 1/3 of 18 = 54.

599 words, about 3 min 3

Choosing Among Revisions That Are All "Correct"

Rivera gives a one-sentence editing task. Students must revise: "Each of the players were tired, and the reason the team lost was because they didn't practice." Four revisions are turned in.

557 words, about 3 min 4

Using a Spelling Inventory to Choose What to Teach Next

A third-grade spelling inventory of 20 words yields 11 correct. The student spells bed, ship, lump, float, spoil, marched, bottle, and four other words correctly.

531 words, about 3 min 5

Reading the Profile: When a Score Gap Rules Out the Obvious Explanation

Jordan, a fifth grader, has these reading results: Word Reading stanine 7 (77th percentile), Reading Vocabulary stanine 6 (60th percentile), Reading Comprehension stanine 3 (12th percentile), Fluency stanine 4 (25th percentile). The scaled-score standard error of measurement is about 3 points, and the Word Reading–Comprehension difference is 14 scaled points.

608 words, about 3 min