District-Wide Assessments

We provide end-to-end solutions for school districts – from complete, standardized products that assess students’ reading comprehension, writing, and English language skills to innovative, custom-designed assessment services that address specific needs.

DRP Program

Our highly regarded Degrees of Reading Power™ (DRP™) Program provides a holistic, criterion-referenced measure of how well students understand the meaning of text. DRP test results help classroom teachers, literacy instructors, and reading specialists – as well as local, district, and state-level administrators – support the development of each student’s reading power.

SSSMART Reading

SSSMART™ – the Science, Social Studies, and Mathematics Academic Reading Test – is a breakthrough assessment product for grades 4 to 8. It is designed to assess the knowledge, skills, and strategies students need to read and understand their textbooks and to succeed in the content areas of science, social studies, and mathematics.

MAC II Test

The MAC II Test of English Language Proficiency™ battery offers a comprehensive assessment of English language skills for non-native speakers of English. Tests assess the skills students in kindergarten through high school need to communicate in English and to function successfully in the English-speaking classroom.

Comprehensive, Customized Solutions
For certain school districts, the best assessment solution may require the customization and scalability that Questar's deep resources and experience in online testing, scoring, readability, and test development can provide.
Online Testing
Questar can provide districts with both online reading and writing assessments. Our customized and flexible writing assessment programs offer your instructors the choice of capturing student essays by means of paper and pencil or via web-based applications.
Readability Analysis
Questar conducts readability analyses for districts, to help match specific textbooks and required literary texts to students' DRP performance measures.
Research and Program Evaluation
Our experienced researchers and psychometricians can perform program evaluations to measure the efficacy of specific district-wide initiatives or programs, such as Reading First, Striving Readers, or any other intervention programs.
Scoring Services
With some of the most experienced, reputable experts in the field of handscoring, Questar can score formative and benchmark writing assessments for school districts.