Measuring and tracking student data is essential to ensuring that students are learning and progressing in the classroom. Yet, collecting and managing this data to improve teaching and learning can be a challenge, especially as educators may collect a large number of data points in any given school year. By utilizing technology-based assessment tools, they […]
Whether you are an educator or an employer, ensuring you are measuring and testing for the right skills and achievements in an ethical, accurate, and meaningful way is crucial. If you want to make sure your students are knowledgeable and prepared, or if you want to make sure a potential employee or staff member is […]
As the primary guidelines for what students need to be able to demonstrate and understand, the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) play a critical role in planning and implementing lessons. A key component of this is, of course, designing common core assessments that align with the standards, including digital assessments. Creating digital common core assessment […]
Assessing student achievement and abilities is an important part of determining whether instruction is effective or not. Over the last few years, schools and educators have been moving away from traditional high-stakes summative assessments and towards other forms of assessment to determine a student’s skill level. This shift, initiated by the COVID-19 pandemic, has changed […]
Over the last five years, student reading scores in the United States have been declining, this decline is even more pronounced after 3 years of a global pandemic. With 35% of students in grades K-2 categorized as having literacy skills far below grade level and an ever-widening gap in literacy skills for students in poverty, […]
High-quality assessments are an essential tool for helping school districts and teachers determine exactly what level their students are at and how much they have grown from year-to-year. Great assessment design doesn’t only consider the content being tested, it also takes into account the developmental level of the students that it is testing. Designing assessments […]