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WOODSTOCK --- Woodstock Academy CAPT Scholars were honored for their academic achievements during a recent dinner.
The Connecticut Academic Performance Test – CAPT- is a statewide assessment with the purpose to promote improved student learning by setting high performance standards on a comprehensive range of important skills and knowledge, emphasizing the application and integration of skills and knowledge in realistic contexts, providing timely assessment data regarding student’s strengths and weaknesses and providing an expanded measure of accountability for all levels of Connecticut’s education system up to an including the high school.
The CAPT includes four sections; Mathematics, Science, Reading across the Disciplines, and Writing across the Disciplines. The goal is for students to be able to apply what they have learning in school to situations they are likely to face throughout their lives.
Christine Swenson, President of the Board of Trustees welcomed parents, faculty, staff and administrators to an event which recognizes students’ academic achievements. Headmaster Kim Caron offered words of praise as well, expressing how extremely proud he is of all the young men and women being honored during the evening and that their achievements on the CAPT test is yet another example of the Woodstock Academy Difference.