Participation by states, districts, schools, and student is voluntary. The first group measures what students have learned and the second what they are interested in or have a facility for. The list below describes the standardized tests Connecticut districts used in 1997 as reported on the SDE survey, together with brief description of each test and a list of the districts that used it. Some descriptions are also taken from online information available from test publishers. Information on Connecticut mastery tests comes from the State Department of Education.
All school districts use the test.
CAPT assesses 10 th graders' performance in math, language arts, science, and interdisciplinary knowledge. The language arts part of the test includes a response to literature test and an editing test. The interdisciplinary part requires students to apply skills from across content areas. CAPT measures both what students know and what they can do. All school districts use the test.