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Donny & Sandy Ball's Bayside School Services offers the best do-it-yourself standardized achievement tests. Our services are available all year long, except when we take a break to travel and do more photography for our ads in the NCHE Greenhouse Report and the HEAV Home Educator.

As graduated homeschooling parents and test providers for 22 years, we know how important fair prices, easy ordering, accurate order processing, and timely reporting can be.

Bayside gives you original publisher materials plus genuine CTB scoring reports. We include free publisher recommended test familiarization practice exercises for TerraNova grades K-8 and TCS/2 grades 2-12.

Bayside offers reliable and accurate information about testing. Here is the sequence of former and current achievement tests published by CTB McGraw-Hill:

CAT/5 published and normed 1991

CTBS TerraNova 1st Edition published 1996, 2005 norms

TerraNova 2nd Edition CAT/6 published 2000, 2005 norms

TerraNova 3rd Edition published and normed in 2007

Only the TerraNova 1st Edition is actively supported by CTB and available for homeschool use. Here is what we offer. You can count on Bayside!

22 Years Supplying Tests Worldwide
(missionaries as far away as Irian Jaya count on us)
Do-It-Yourself Convenience
Easy Ordering All Year Long
Fair Prices
Accurate Order Processing
Original Publisher Materials
Free Publisher Recommended Practice Exercises
  (TN Grades K-8)
Genuine CTB McGraw-Hill Scoring
Timely Reports Including Stanines & Percentiles
(but it takes longer than a week!)
Detailed Instructions Help Make Testing Simple

ORDERING DETAILS

Ordering is simple and you do not need an order form, although if you tested with us in 2011, you should make use of the blue reorder form (the cover sheet for your reports).

The best way to order is to mail us your name, address, phone#, and preferred test week. Tell us the grade level(s) and test type for each student and if you prefer the shorter (not easier) Survey. Include your check or money order.

Or you can email your order with PayPal.com. Visit their site to sign up for this easy to use service. Then simply "Send Money" to orders@baysideschoolservices.com.

Include your ordering information in the comment section or in a separate email. PayPal will let you know they sent the payment and we will let you know we received it.

Questions or problems with ordering or testing?
Email orders@baysideschoolservices.com.

PRICING INFORMATION

The test price for 2011/2012 is $55 per TerraNova Plus, either Complete Battery or Survey. This price includes Priority Mail domestic delivery but does not include the required Priority Mail return postage.

There are three situations where testing costs more.

1) If you need to test ASAP or request a test week with less than 3 weeks lead time, add $10 per order (not per test).

2) If you need results faster than the typical 4-6 weeks, we can handscore the tests and provide an accurate computer report for $25 for each TerraNova and $25 for each TCS/2. Order Rapid Response Scoring (RRS).

3) If your mailing address is not in the USA (armed forces addresses are!) and your country is on the Priority Mail International list, add $15 for up to 3 tests. For more than 3 tests or other countries contact us for mailing options.

Important: Do not let affordability determine your test choice. We have a limited amount of partial scholarship assistance available if cost is the issue. Request help with an email to help@baysideschoolservices.com or written request to us at the below mailing address.

DELIVERY INFORMATION

To make the testing process as efficient as possible, we ask you to choose a preferred test week. While we do our best to fulfill your request, we do not guarantee test weeks.

If you have a situation where you have no flexibility in test administration, email us to check available options.

IMPORTANT NOTES FOR NC HOMESCHOOLS

First, DNPE now allows testing any time during your school year. You have 12 months from the date of opening your school to accomplish the first test, and annually thereafter. Visit our NC page for details.

Second, we get many requests related to concerns about the June 30 "deadline" for test scores to be on file or mailed. It is not necessary to spend extra money for rush testing and fast scoring. This excerpt is taken directly from DNPE's web site:

"Send results to DNPE?  Only if you received a letter of invitation to do so from DNPE this past August.  Consult that letter for all the details and do not attach address or telephone number changes in the same envelope with them.  Otherwise, simply keep the student achievement test result and attendance records at your home for at least one year after the date of testing.  If DNPE doesn’t ask to see them during that one year period, you will have satisfied the North Carolina law regarding the DNPE inspection of these student records.  If the test company scoring your child's test does not provide the test scores to you in time to meet the June 30 DNPE postmark mail-in deadline, simply hold the completed student attendance records until the test results arrive from the company. Then, send both items together to DNPE per instructions given in your August invitation letter.  There is no need for you (or the test company) to notify DNPE about the mail-in delay."

Use Rapid Response Scoring for situations such as emergency entrance to public schools or to help resolve court cases.

Questions or problems with ordering or testing?

Email orders@baysideschoolservices.com.
Please note that email is twice as efficient as voicemail!

THANK YOU FOR TESTING WITH BAYSIDE!

Bayside School Services
PO Box 250
Kill Devil Hills NC 27948
orders@baysideschoolservices.com
voice messaging 800-723-3057