Assessment
Taken from Illuminate Education's Comprehensive Assessment Systems Toolkit.
Pre-Assessment Pros and Cons
Pros:
Assessing the students when they first enter a program can establish a firm benchmark against which to measure growth or value-added.
Pre-testing is especially helpful for measuring student knowledge, or cognitive learning, and skills.
Pre-testing can be easily scored.
Pre-testing can be relatively easily analyzed.
Cons:
Pre-testing offers little useful information if the students know little or nothing about the subject as they may at the start of the school year.
Pre-testing may have to be so basic that it does not cover all previous learning and any additional learning could be seen as "growth" or value-added.
Pre-Assessments/Gap Analysis Tools
Local Curriculum Assessments
Building Comprehensive Assessment Systems
Assessment Areas
Academics
Behavior
SEL
Attendance
Building a Comprehensive Assessment System Templates
Assessment Platform/Technology Considerations
If you’re in the process of exploring or reconsidering your assessments and assessment platforms, here some key functionality requirements to consider:
Assessment Administration Platforms (Just-in-Time/Short Cycle, Interim, Classroom Summative)
Delivers a variety of assessment types online or on paper (on any device)
Features high-quality item banks with technology-enhanced items (TEIs)
Links assessments to standards and learning targets for reporting
Provides pre-built reports for data visualization of all data elements
Supports customized reporting analysis for multiple measures and disaggregation
Capable of longitudinal data analysis
Captures and reports student performance in all areas
Automates data from other key assessments, such as universal screening, progress monitoring, and diagnostic assessments
Assessments (Universal Screening/CAT, Progress Monitoring, Diagnostic)
Assesses Reading, Math, and Social-Emotional Behavioral in one system
Ensures valid, reliable, and evidence-based assessments
Offers both computer adaptive testing (CAT) and curriculum-based measurement (CBM)
Provides intervention recommendations based on the data
Automates with assessment administration platform
Ongoing Parent Assessment
Using Data to Drive Remediation
Special Education and Assessment
Ongoing Feedback Loop
Resources
Digging Deeper Documents (under Assessment Sections)
If you’re in the process of exploring or reconsidering your assessments and assessment platforms, here some key functionality requirements to consider:
Assessment Administration Platforms (Just-in-Time/Short Cycle, Interim, Classroom Summative)
Delivers a variety of assessment types online or on paper (on any device)
Features high-quality item banks with technology-enhanced items (TEIs)
Links assessments to standards and learning targets for reporting
Provides pre-built reports for data visualization of all data elements
Supports customized reporting analysis for multiple measures and disaggregation
Capable of longitudinal data analysis
Captures and reports student performance in all areas
Automates data from other key assessments, such as universal screening, progress monitoring, and diagnostic assessments
Assessments (Universal Screening/CAT, Progress Monitoring, Diagnostic)
Assesses Reading, Math, and Social-Emotional Behavioral in one system
Ensures valid, reliable, and evidence-based assessments
Offers both computer adaptive testing (CAT) and curriculum-based measurement (CBM)
Provides intervention recommendations based on the data
Automates with assessment administration platform