NH SAS Math Practice

About the NH SAS

The New Hampshire Statewide Assessment System (NH SAS) is the state math test for grades 3 through 8, delivered each spring by Cambium Assessment under contract with the New Hampshire Department of Education. NH SAS is built on the same Smarter Balanced item bank used in several other New England states, but New Hampshire administers it under its own brand and contract rather than as part of the SBAC consortium. The math test uses computer-adaptive selected-response and technology-enhanced items, paired with a separate constructed-response performance task that asks students to apply concepts in an extended scenario.

New Hampshire publishes results through the iPlatform reporting site, which gives parents and districts achievement-level summaries plus claim-area subscores in Concepts and Procedures, Problem Solving and Modeling, and Communicating Reasoning. The state reports four achievement levels and a numeric scale score; Level 3 and Level 4 are considered meeting the state proficiency standard for federal Every Student Succeeds Act reporting. NH also offers an in-year interim assessment block library through the same Cambium platform, which districts can use voluntarily to monitor progress before the spring administration.

New Hampshire has long pursued competency-based education and previously piloted the Performance Assessment of Competency Education (PACE) system, in which approved districts substitute locally developed performance tasks for parts of the standardized test. PACE remains active in a limited set of districts, so a small share of New Hampshire students take a hybrid of NH SAS items and locally developed tasks rather than the full statewide test. There is no statewide retention or promotion gate tied to NH SAS results; the score is used primarily for ESSA accountability and district planning.

Official source: https://www.education.nh.gov/who-we-are/division-of-educator-and-analytic-resources/bureau-of-instructional-support/office-of-assessment