Collection of Course Embedded Tools

AIMSweb

AIMSweb is a benchmark and progress monitoring system based on direct, frequent and continuous student assessment. The results are reported to students, parents, teachers and administrators via a web-based data management and reporting system to determine response to intervention.

Data Recognition Corporation (DRC)

DRC currently partners with state departments of education across the country to develop and administer full-service large-scale student educational assessment programs.

Pennsylvania Value-Added Assessment System (PVAAS)

PVAAS is a statistical analysis of PSSA assessment data, and provides districts and their schools with progress data to add to achievement data. This new lens of measuring student learning provides educators with valuable information to ensure they are meeting the academic needs of cohorts of students, as well as individual students.

eMetric

eMetric is designed to provide quick, easy and secured access to student performance results on the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA). It is a password-protected site provided free to all district through the Pennsylvania Department of Education.

Districts can create their own reports in tables, graphs or external files, at the summary or individual student level, by selecting content, statistics, aggregation levels, disaggregated groups or subgroups, and/or score variables. Data was first available in eMetric beginning with the 2003-2004 School Year and is cumulative through the release of the most recent PSSA data.

Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA)

The annual Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA) is a standards-based, criterion-referenced assessment used to measure a student's attainment of the academic standards while also determining the degree to which school programs enable students to attain proficiency of the standards. Individual student scores, provided only to their respective schools, can be used to assist teachers in identifying students who may be in need of additional educational opportunities, and school scores provide information to schools and districts for curriculum and instruction improvement discussions and planning.

School Matters

SchoolDataDirect and SchoolMatters will be back online (probably as a single resource) in the not-too-distant future. It is their intent that this resource becomes the authoritative source for the data needed by states, SEAs, other education stakeholders, and others who need reliable and trusted education data for policy development and decision making.

Standards Aligned Systems (SAS)

The Pennsylvania Standards Aligned System (SAS) is a collaborative product of research and good practice that identifies six distinct elements which, if utilized together, will provide schools and districts a common framework for continuous school and district enhancement and improvement. Much research has been conducted as to what makes a great school. There are many intangible components; however, research supports the notion that great schools and school systems tend to have six common elements that ensure Student Achievement: Clear Standards, Fair Assessments, Curriculum Framework, Instruction, Materials & Resources, and Interventions.