Assessment Tools
Premium Assessment Platforms
If any of these require individual account access other than @mcmsnj.net domain sign in and you are seeking an account for it please email gallantd@mcmsnj.net and you question will be routed to the correct person to authorize that account. Not all paid software is currently available at every campus.
Key: D - District, EB - East Brunswick, PA - Perth Amboy, PI - Piscataway, E - Edison, W - Woodbridge
Link-it! - Middlesex County Magnet Schools uses Link-it for Student Data Warehousing and Benchmark Assessments. You will find within Link-it all relevant student data that is attached to your students. Here you can use the data that is being collected by readiness instruments and standardized tests to form intervention groups, and guide your instruction.
Implementation Strategies - Understanding how to find your students information and using that data to make decision is a critical component of effective educational practices.
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Edulastic - District Pro-License used as main platform for common assessments. Edulastic is a technology-enhanced assessment solution for teachers and school/district administrators. It is compact enough for classroom formative assessments, yet sophisticated enough for common interim and benchmark assessments that mirror state tests. There has also been much improvement done to make it useful as a self-directed learning platform.
Implementation Strategies - As this tool tracks standards mastery extremely well it is encouraged to be used as often as feasible for formative assessment and summative. Powerful data analytics are available to find which students need targeted supports.
Place to get started - Quick Start Guide Distance Learning Self-Paced Training
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Renaissance - Diagnostic tool used in our special education environments to track student progress in core standards. This is a software as a service and learning analytics company that makes cloud-based, pre-K–12 educational software and adaptive assessments.
Implementation Strategies - Diagnostic tool used on select campuses.
In Use At - EB, PI - Accounts managed by building admin.
Freemium Assessment Platforms
Google Forms - Everyone wants data. Schools want it to track student performance. Teachers and students have their own data gathering and tracking tool that’s free and easy to learn — Google Forms. Google Forms lets you create a survey with lots of different kinds of questions. Light platform with simple creation process and quick turn around data.
Implementation Strategies - Can be used in a multitude of ways in the classroom. Check out the blog post below under getting started here.
https://docs.google.com/forms/
Place to get started: Ways to use Google Forms in Class
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Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform, used as educational technology in schools and other educational institutions. Its learning games, "Kahoots", are user-generated multiple-choice quizzes that can be accessed via a web browser or the Kahoot app.
Kahoot! can be used to review students' knowledge, for formative assessment, or as a break from traditional classroom activities Kahoot! also includes trivia quizzes.
Implementation Strategy - The game-ified nature does make it engaging and gets a nice class-wide snapshot however the fine data analysis is less actionable than other platforms.
Place to get started: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch_7HHFwjCU
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Quizizz - Quizziz is an online assessment tool that allows to teachers and students to create and use one another's quizzes. After providing students with a unique access code, a quiz can be presented live as a timed competition or used for homework with a specific deadline.
Implementation Strategies - Options available for customization make it a preferable option when running quick formative checks.
Place to get started: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDO3j2PjS7s
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Poll Everywhere - Poll Everywhere is an audience response system (ARS) . Poll Everywhere allows you to poll or survey students in or outside the classroom, synchronously or asynchronously. Students can answer questions to polls or surveys with common devices like mobile phones, tablets, or laptops.
Implementation Strategies - Students' answers can be anonymous or attributable, graded or ungraded. Participation and grades can be managed within the Poll Everywhere platform.
https://www.polleverywhere.com/
Place to get started - Getting Started with Poll Everywhere
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Flip Grid - Further classroom conversations by assigning questions as homework assignments and then continue the conversation in class the next day. Ask students to weigh in on a critical current event for a social studies or civics class; use it in a math class to ask students to describe the process they used to solve a complex problem.
Implementation Strategies - You might also use Flipgrid as an opportunity for students to post reviews of books, movies, or television shows. Consider using a "grid" as a way to collect a range of students' responses on a single topic: Perhaps ask students at the end of a unit to reflect on what they've learned and what they'd recommend to other students.
Place to get started: Alice Keeler Blog Post
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