Preparation for Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System

Students are prepared for the exams throughout their academic careers by in-class instruction. However, if an individual student needs help improving in a particular test, the first step in giving that student the extra help he or she needs is to identify specific weaknesses. Sometimes the student, teachers, and/or parents are aware of the weaknesses, sometimes they are not. To ascertain what the student knows as well as what he or she needs to learn, a diagnostic test, such as the DT-PAM (Diagnostic Test of Pre-Algebra Math), may be administered.