County schools aiming to individualize tests
January 10, 2004

Paris Post-Intelligencer: Paris, TN (October 15, 2003): "The Henry County School System is working to individualize test scores to make it easier to pinpoint the academic problems its students are facing, system administrators told the Henry County Board of Education Tuesday night.

The PASS (Predictive Assessment System for Students) exams are offered by the ThinkLink Learning Corp.

These exams are given in every school in the county system three times each academic year, said Assistant Director of Schools John Hinson.

The exams test students in specific areas of language studies and math to see where they are not meeting acceptable levels.

.'We want to get to the point where we are transferring a student's individual data to the classroom instruction,' (Rick Kriesky) said. 'We need to know what every student is deficient in.'