Why Use the DT-PAM?
The DT-PAM:
- Provides systematic, standard information about each student
- Assesses students' deficits that a teacher might not have noticed yet
- Promotes consistency and fairness in student evaluation
- Allows evaluation of progress of grades/classes over time
- Costs much less than other methods of evaluation
- Is group administered, saving testing time
- Is computer scored, saving teacher time
- Contains only 50 questions
- May be administered in either 45 or 90 minutes (with separate norms)
- Provides 21 diagnostic scores for each student
- Provides class and school summaries
- Is professionally developed, validated, and graded
- Has fast grading (typically within one week).
Each student is provided with a diagnostic profile. Class and school summaries will be provided with group testing.
The DT-PAM provides specific diagnostic information giving the teachers critical information needed to develop teaching plans to raise statewide math test scores and maximize success in future math courses.