NJSLA Testing
Given the continued threat of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) to our school communities and the resulting school closures, Governor Phil Murphy has announced that the State of New Jersey is cancelling all statewide student assessments for the spring 2020 testing window. This includes the springtime administration of the New Jersey Student Learning Assessments (NJSLA).
The New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE) has implemented changes to New Jersey’s statewide assessment practices effective as of the spring 2019 administration. While the online platform will remain the same, the state’s mathematics and English language Arts (ELA) assessments will no longer be named Partnership for Assessment of College and Career Readiness (PARCC). Instead, the assessments will be called New Jersey Student Learning Assessment (NJSLA). The ELA assessment will be named NJSLA-ELA, and the mathematics assessment will be named NJSLA-M. The science exam is named NJSLA-S (administered to students in grades 5 and 8).
The below charts provide an overview of the number of units and the unit testing times by subject and grade level:
English Language Arts
Grade 3
NJSLA-ELA
|
Unit |
Unit Testing Time (mins.) |
|
1 |
75 |
|
2 |
75 |
|
Total: 2 units |
Total 150 |
Grades 4 & 5
NJSLA-ELA
|
Unit |
Unit Testing Time (mins.) |
|
1 |
90 |
|
2 |
90 |
|
Total: 2 units |
Total 180 |
Grades 6 - 8
NJSLA-ELA
|
Unit |
Unit Testing Time (mins.) |
|
1 |
90 |
|
2 |
90 |
|
Total: 2 units |
Total 180 |
Mathematics
Grades 3 - 8
NJSLA-M
|
Unit |
Unit Testing Time (mins.) |
|
1 |
60 |
|
2 |
60 |
|
3 |
60 |
|
Total: 3 units |
Total 180 |
Algebra I and Geometry
NJSLA-M
|
Unit |
Unit Testing Time (mins.) |
|
1 |
90 |
|
2 |
90 |
|
Total: 2 units |
Total 180 |
Science
Grades 5 & 8
NJSLA-S
|
Unit |
Unit Testing Time (mins.) |
|
1 |
45 |
|
2 |
45 |
|
3 |
45 |
|
4 |
45 |
|
Total: 4 units |
Total 180 |
Below is updated information on the NJSLA-S.
Also below are files related to the spring 2018 administration of PARCC.