Assessment/Test Scores

Assessment provides information that helps us understand how students are learning. Often we think of assessment as the major tests that happen once or twice a year, but it is much more than that. We believe that many different approaches to assessment are important, and that the results need to be used to guide instruction. Often it is the day-to-day classroom assessments that give students and teachers the most help.

Measure of Student Progress (MSP) and High School Proficiency Exam (HSPE)

Formerly known as the Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL), the state-level student assessment are now the Measure of Student Progress (MSP) for grades 3-8, and the High School Proficiency Exam (HSPE). Both assessments are a series of tests that helps make sure our students learn the foundational skills and knowledge that educators, parents and community leaders say are important to their success in life.

The MSP and the HSPE serve two purposes. They help us find out how each student is doing and how each school is doing. Schools pay attention to MSP/HSPE results. They use them to improve teaching and to do a better job of meeting every student’s academic needs.

Snoqualmie Valley MSP/HSPE Test Scores: District Summary

MSP/HSPE Summaries by school:

MSP/HSPE Resources

• Testing Students in WA State
• Reaching Higher - A parents guide to the high school assessments (pdf)
• MSP Test Questions and Practice/Sample Tests
• HSPE Test Questions and Practice/Sample Tests