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The reports listed below are good choices if your goal is student counseling, curriculum and instruction review, or tracking progress.

Student Counseling

Use the following reports to design strategies for helping individual students improve their skills:

• Roster Report
• Student Report

Curriculum and Instruction Review

These reports help you ensure that classroom work aligns to college and career readiness standards:

• Performance by All Students
• Performance by Demographics
• Knowledge and Skills

Tracking Progress

Use these reports to develop systems for monitoring the progress of student groups, schools, and districts:

• Performance by All Students
• Performance by Demographics
• Knowledge and Skills
• Growth Report

The BigFuture^® School and Connections™ Report is only available for the PSAT/NMSQT digital assessment in the SAT Suite of Assessments. It’s not available for the paper and pencil administrations.

The BigFuture School mobile app is a fast way for students to view their scores and receive college and career guidance. Connections is a program that allows students to opt in to hear from nonprofit colleges, scholarships, and educational organizations. Learn more about Digital SAT Suite Student Data Privacy.

Use this report to view aggregate student data on their use and participation in the BigFuture School mobile app and Connections program.

If your state or district chooses to opt out of Connections, the Connections data on the report will be displayed as “N/A.”

The detailed Roster Report, available at the school level, lists students along with their scores and other information. Use it to:

• View SAT and PSAT-related registration information and student photos (for SAT Weekend testers)
• View student scores, percentiles, benchmark performance, and knowledge and skill performance.
• View student engagement with the BigFuture^® School mobile app and Connections™ program (applicable to U.S.-based students who took the digital PSAT/NMSQT).
• See an individual student report.
• Print student reports and labels, individually or in bulk. Note: You can print reports and labels for up to 50 students at a time in the Roster Report. To print score reports for all students who took an assessment, use the Batch Student Report PDFs Report.
• Give registration numbers to students who have trouble signing into the Student Score Reports portal to view their scores.
• Access to your school’s AP Potential™ tool.

If you work for a district or state, you’ll be required to run this report for a school. You cannot view a state-level or district-level roster report.

This report provides aggregate score and benchmark performance data for institutions. States and districts can also view the aggregate performance for institutions under them. A state can see the performance of their districts and schools, and a district can see the performance of their schools.

Use it to see how your students performed by viewing mean scores, aggregate benchmark data, and other comparative statistics at the district, state, and/or all tester group levels; establish baselines for school improvement goals.

This is a collection of reports that allow you to view aggregate score and benchmark performance for different demographic groups, including:

• Gender
• Race/Ethnicity
• Fee waiver usage

The reports provide information for score performance and performance against the College and Career Readiness benchmarks.

The Knowledge and Skills Report is available for the new digital assessments in the SAT Suite of Assessments. It’s not available for paper and pencil administrations.

This report allows you to view aggregate student performance on the Reading and Writing and Math sections of the digital SAT. Each test section is composed of questions in 4 content domains. Each student who completed this test administration has had their performance placed into one of the seven performance score bands for each of the 8 content domains

To better understand the knowledge and skills related to each content domain and performance score band in this report, click the Skills Insight and Example Questions link. This will take you to our Skills Insight™ tool, where you can view Skills Insight statements that show what test takers scoring in particular Reading and Writing and Math section score ranges typically know and can do. You can also examine example questions that illustrate the types and difficulty levels of questions that these test takers can generally answer correctly.

There are 7 performance score bands provided in both Reading and Writing and Math sections at each content domain. Performance score bands divide the Reading and Writing and Math sections’ score scales into ranges of score points broad enough to allow for meaningful generalizations to be drawn about successively higher levels of student performance demonstrated on the digital SAT Suite assessments.

Skills Insight helps educators and test takers make productive use of digital scores. In this tool, users can view Skills Insight statements that show what test takers in particular Reading and Writing and Math section score ranges typically know and can do.

These statements are generalizations based on an analysis of the performance of thousands of test takers across hundreds of digital SAT Suite questions; as such, they do not necessarily describe the performance of individual students. Example test questions illustrating the kinds and difficulty levels of questions that test takers can generally answer correctly accompany each set of statements.

This report is available for paper and pencil assessments only and is not available for the new digital SAT Suite of Assessments. This report makes it easy to view students by performance group in specific subscores reported for a paper and pencil assessment as well as section and test scores. Use it to:

• See section scores in relation to College and Career Readiness Benchmarks in Math and in Evidence-Based Reading and Writing.
• See which skills are your students’ strongest and which need the most improvement.
• Inform classroom work and curriculum improvements.

Tips:

• This report is available for paper and pencil SAT, PSAT/NMSQT, PSAT 10, and PSAT 8/9 assessments.
• For section scores, colors indicate which students met benchmarks, which are approaching benchmarks, and which need to strengthen their skills.
• For test scores and subscores, colors indicate which students are on track for college readiness, which are close to being on track, and which need to strengthen their skills. Check the Resources section below to find out how the score ranges for each color are calculated.

This report is available for paper and pencil assessments only and is not available for the new digital SAT Suite of Assessments. This report allows you to view aggregate and individual student performance on each question in a paper and pencil SAT or PSAT-related assessment. Use it to:

• View percentages of students who answered each question correctly, incorrectly, or omitted responses and compare percentages among the district, state, or total group (all testers).
• Target question performance related to specific cross-test scores and subscores, and to varying difficulty levels (easy, medium, hard).
• Drill down to view individual student performance on each question.
• View and print each question, including the correct answer and answer explanation (for disclosed forms only).

Tips:

• You can view this report for each paper and pencil test form administered to your students.
• A district or state can view individual student performance only when they run this report for a school.
• Reports for a nondisclosed form will not provide question content or statistics on student answer choices. It will only report whether answers were correct or incorrect.

Growth reports track the growth of the same group of students from test to test and project their performance on a future test. These reports are available as a scheduled PDF report and include:

• Long-term growth tables: Track the progress of a matched cohort of students from year to year as they take different tests across the entire SAT Suite of Assessments.
• Paired-test growth tables: Provides growth of a matched cohort of students between two tests in the SAT Suite of Assessments.

Growth is reported at the test section level (Evidence-Based Reading and Writing and Math sections). We analyzed score data to figure out how much school-level mean scores typically change between tests administered in consecutive grades.

The projected growth you see in the growth report is based on the growth of schools who took the same tests your students took and had mean scores on the first test that were similar to your students’ mean score.

Note: College Board growth reports only report on cohorts of the same students who took the same tests, and may differ from your school, district, or state testing cohorts.

When you drill down into your students’ data within the K–12 Portal, you’ll see a report that mirrors their online score reports. Seeing exactly what your students see makes it easier for you to walk students through their score reports and help them take action on their test results.

In addition to their scores, the online student score reports include:

• Score comparisons to compare a student’s total and section scores to the average score at their school, district, state, and all testers (as applicable, digital only)
• Percentiles
  • Nationally representative sample percentile (paper and digital assessments)
  • All Tester percentile (paper and digital assessments)
  • State percentile (for U.S.-based test takers, digital only)
  • Country percental (digital only)
• The student’s performance against the Reading and Writing and Math college readiness benchmarks
• Knowledge and skill performance in 4 reading and writing content domains and 4 math content domains (digital only)
• Score projections for the exams typically taken by students in the next grade (provided if the latest test taken is a PSAT-related assessment)
• Career insights and links to BigFuture^®
• Recommendations for AP courses to explore (AP Potential™)
• Scores for prior assessments
• Demographic information
• College score-send information (SAT only)
• The student’s essay (SAT with Essay only)
• Highlighted next steps

We have updated the online student reporting experience for the digital SAT! This new experience was designed to help students better understand how they did on the digital SAT as well as providing them with actionable next steps to continue learning and planning for life after high school. These changes include:

• A simpler report that better highlights key takeaways, all on one screen (not multiple tabs).
• New, easier to distill visualizations.
• New data points to help students understand how they did.
  • Comparing their score to the average score at their school, district, state, country, and for all testers
  • Percentile comparisons in their state, country, and to all testers
  • Insight into their knowledge and skills in 4 reading and writing and 4 math content areas
• Redesigned paths to access scores and score-related data students are accustomed to viewing.
  • Total and section scores, including score ranges
  • College and career readiness benchmarks
  • Score sends
  • AP Potential
• In context links to other tools and resources helpful to students:
  • BigFuture
  • MyPractice
  • SAT Score Sends
  • SAT Registration

Additionally, question item details are no longer provided in student reports for digital PSAT-related assessments.

We simplified the PDF score report, providing a one-page report that’s easier for educators to print and distribute to students who need them. This report focuses on the high-level details as it relates to the student’s scores and overall performance. Additional score insights can be viewed in the online student score portal that can be accessed by students through their College Board account.

This report creates score report PDFs for each student who took an assessment in the SAT Suite of Assessments. You can run this report for specific administrations and can include all grades tested or select certain grades. This is a scheduled report and will be delivered within 24 hours of submitting the request in the Reports You Scheduled page in Downloads. You’ll receive an email when your PDF score reports are available for download in the reporting portal.

Note: The PDF score report provided for a new digital assessment in the SAT Suite of Assessments is different from the PDF score report provided for a paper and pencil test.

The Reading and Writing and Math Benchmarks can help educators identify students who:

• Need more support while there is still time for improvement.
• Can take on more challenging courses and assignments.

Benchmarks should not be used to:

• Assign students to academic tracks.
• Keep students from participating in challenging courses.
• Discourage students from pursuing college.

Exam Scoring

• SAT scores and SAT Subject Test scores
• PSAT/NMSQT and PSAT 10 scores
• PSAT 8/9 scores

College and Career Readiness Benchmarks and Color Coding

• Benchmarks
• Color-coded score ranges

Percentiles

• SAT percentiles
• PSAT/NMSQT and PSAT 10 percentiles
• PSAT 8/9 percentiles