I content standards runs the risk of our children completely missing out on important content. In the eighth grade, two math exams are used to collect this information. The Stanford 9 exam is a nationally normed test. This means it has been given nationally and results can be statistically reported in National Percentile Ranks. The Stanford 9 covers a broad range of math skills.
Results give a picture of how our students compare to the rest of the nation.
The test is given to all eighth grade students and was first given to California students in the spring of 1998. The Algebra I Content Standard exam is designed specifically to compare how California students are performing against the state content standards. The Algebra I test has a total of 50 questions. Fifteen of these are selected questions from the Stanford 9 - the questions that best align with the content standards. Each of the other 35 questions is explicitly designed to test at least one of the Algebra I Content Standards.