Assessment

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.

• CDT

• OHS

• Imagine Learning

• IU1 Gap Analysis Tool

• NWEA Map

• Local Curriculum Assessments

• Assessment Areas

  • • Academics

    • Behavior

    • SEL

    • Attendance

• Building a Comprehensive Assessment System Templates

• Schoolwide Assessment Plan Template

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

• Rethinking Grading

• Digging Deeper Documents (under Assessment Sections)

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