Recognizes the best application or solution for high-stakes assessments/preparation for high-stakes tests in the PK-12 or postsecondary market for use in either formative or summative assessments.
i-Ready answers 'why' plus delivers 'what's next,' showing teachers the specific skills to address and providing instruction to teach these skills.
At the start of the program, students are immediately engaged in their learning experience through the opportunity to select an avatar and exciting backgrounds, including NBA themes.
Built specifically for the Common Core, i-Ready uses a computer-adaptive algorithm to ensure students are assessed efficiently across multiple grade-levels in both reading and mathematics. Reports provide immediate information on students' skill mastery and next steps for instruction, helping teachers to save time and to understand the root cause of student challenges.
Based on the diagnostic results, students are automatically placed into engaging instruction at their level.
Students aren't just practicing problems; rather a consistent instructional routine delivers differentiated instruction. Each tutorial provides explicit instruction on a skill or concept, delivered by animated, diverse characters in real-world scenarios. Students may learn about making inferences by investigating an oil spill or chart histograms while trekking through the jungle. Throughout the module, students apply what they've learned and receive corrective feedback to reinforce understanding. A graded activity is used to monitor progress.
Teachers can provide further instruction in small groups using immediately downloadable lessons.
With a focus on Mastery Learning of Common Core standards, MasteryConnect’s social assessment platform has registered teachers from over 25,000 schools in more than 8,000 school districts in all 50 states. Since launching an online teacher learning community 20 months ago, MasteryConnect has grown to become the largest network of teachers sharing formative assessments around the Common Core standards with over 36,000 assessments uploaded. MasteryConnect's integrated Common Core app for iOS, Android, and Windows devices is the most downloaded app for the Common Core, with over 600,000 downloads.
MasteryConnect's assessment solution allows educators to focus their teaching and interventions on the specific learning needs of each student and can easily be used to communicate progress to all stakeholders. MasteryConnect makes it easy for teachers to track student progress of both formative and benchmark assessment and provides teachers, principals, and administrators with the tools they need to create, share, and administer assessments.
In January 2013, MasteryConnect completed a Series A round of financing of $4.25 million dollars. Investors included Catamount Ventures, The Michael and Susan Dell Foundation, Learn Capital, New Schools Venture Fund, ImagineK12, and Deborah Quazzo of GSV Advisors.
McGraw-Hill SimNet Online - McGraw-Hill Higher Education Group
McGraw-Hill SimNet® for Office is a complete online learning system designed to teach and assess student competency in Microsoft®. SimNet utilizes a completely online, simulated Microsoft Office and Windows environment requiring only high-speed internet, Adobe Flash Player, and Internet Explorer or Firefox browser. SimNet Online offers an extensive number of learning tasks, assessment and practice questions available for: Access, Excel, Computer Concepts, Office Overview, Outlook, and Windows. As an added bonus, SimNet Online also offers more than 10,000 objective questions which directly correspond to many popular textbooks.
SimNet Online's dedicated server farm is fully managed, backed-up daily, and hosted in a redundant, secure, state-of-the-art data center. In order to further safe-guard student grades and personal information, SimNet Online also implements a 128-bit secure socket layer (SSL) for all communications.
Prep for the GED Test: MyFoundationsLab Edition - Pearson
Prep for the GED® Test: MyFoundationsLab Edition prepares students with diverse learning styles to successfully pass the high stakes GED® test. With clear navigation and proven learning design it includes remediation content, test practice with feedback, test-taking strategies for each subject, a final simulated practice test, and reporting for instructors.
Prep for the GED® Test: MyFoundationsLab Edition prepares students with diverse learning styles to successfully pass the high stakes GED® test. With clear navigation and proven learning design it includes remediation content in reading, writing, and mathematics, short pre-tests and integrated low-stakes test practice with feedback for all five tested subject areas.
Learners acquire test-taking strategies for each subject and have the opportunity to practice their skills with two full-length simulated tests that provide critical feedback to students to help them learn why the correct answer is in fact the best choice.
Initial learning activities foster success by helping learners self-determine and commit to personal goals, to learn how to be a successful student, and to understand their own strengths, weaknesses, and learning styles. This material empowers learners to engage their strengths and focus on weak spots to create their personalized learning strategy while preparing to take the test.
Schoolnets Instructional Improvement System (IIS) helps educators, families, students and administrators use data to increase academic achievement and build educator capacity. The IIS provides states, districts and schools with the only truly unified instructional platform that synthesizes student assessment data, instructional resources, professional learning and educator effectiveness to enable individualizing learning for every student and educator. Schoolnets IIS is comprised of two primary components; the Instructional Management System (IMS) and the Educator Development System (EDS).
-The IMS delivers interactive dashboards and reports, a full featured assessment platform, a learning object repository and an RTI management system. By combining student data with instructional planning tools, the IMS uniquely provides students and educators with tools to differentiate and personalize learning for each child. -The EDS features a robust classroom observation tool, a professional development management system, professional growth planning tools and a series of data dashboards reporting on multiple measures of educator quality. By combining a multiple-measures approach to educator effectiveness with a rich repository of professional learning opportunities, the EDS helps educators use data to drive improvement in teacher practice.
States and districts that adopt the entire Schoolnet IIS are truly able to transform teaching and learning to drive student achievement.
Promethean ActivEngage sets the standard in formative assessment software for tablets, iPads, smart-phones and traditional computers. Giving students opportunities to share their methods for solving problems, and take ownership of their learning is key to engagement and achievement. When technology is used as an enabler, it has to include high-quality learning content and systems that allow assessment content to enable feedback loops so that learning can be assessed.
The assessment software can be used with any mix of supported tablet devices, smart-phones, traditional computers, or even ActivExpression devices, simultaneously. This makes it a perfect solution for schools and districts evaluating or implementing Tablet, 1:1 computing and BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) initiatives.
ActivEngage supports a wide range of response types, including enhanced Multiple Choice, True/False, Yes/No, Sort-In-Order, Likert Scales, Numeric and Text Entry, and Self-Paced Learning. With a diversity mix of assessments, teachers can continuously gauge classroom comprehension and adjust instruction as needed.
ActivEngage interfaces seamlessly with any interactive whiteboard and can be deployed to an entire school or district or limited to a single classroom. It is a foundational component of a fully integrated solution, seamlessly connecting assessment to instruction.
Everyday Mathematics® Assessment Differentiation System - The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
The Everyday Mathematics® Assessment Differentiation System provides: 1. Easy digital recording of embedded assessments within Everyday Mathematics® such as the Recognizing Student Achievement and the Progress Check assessments on your computer and mobile devices. 2. Progress monitoring through reports that show how students are progressing to mastery of the Common Core State Standards or Everyday Mathematics® Grade-Level Goals. These reports also point teachers to suggested activities designed to help struggling students get back on track to meeting the standards or goals. 3. Over 900 new differentiation activities correlated to Common Core Standards and Grade-Level Goals. These activities can be used with students who are struggling or for enrichment. 4. Online test generator that includes all content previously available on the 2012 Everyday Mathematics® ExamView, in addition to allowing teachers to create online tests and assign them to students.
mCLASS Beacon is a formative assessment system for grades K-12 that supports personalized instruction. An interactive dashboard combines assessment, data analysis, instructional planning, and professional development into a single solution. Beacon enables educators to see the relationship between standards, curriculum, and assessment as learning occurs. It provides, at a glance, a view of all the standards for an entire course of study, along with the guidance to drive instructional planning from data.
The map displays student progress towards mastery of the standards, and features integrated tools to help teachers analyze performance, group students with similar needs, and plan instructional next steps for personalized education. The map can be configured for any area of learning; the ELA and math maps are aligned to Common Core standards, and are compatible with individual state standards. Teachers can also link to lesson plans or professional development resources.
The results allow educators to quickly diagnose differences in achievement levels, group students with similar needs, and drive lesson plans accordingly.
The Reporting and Analysis Suite for administrators delivers interactive charts and one-click customized and aggregated reports that boast sharing and download capabilities meant to determine where new strategies are needed for maximum impact.
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