The fastest and easiest way to design, score, and analyze local assessments.

Imagine this: One thousand sixth graders take a local benchmark assessment in the morning. Then, using a plain paper scanner and Assessment Builder™, all one thousand assessments are scanned in less than forty-five minutes. You also have the option to interactively interpret any misreads or double-marked answers.

That’s the power—and ease—of Assessment Builder.

But there’s more. Before the end of that same day, all the assessment answers with corresponding scores and proficiencies are uploaded and ready for reporting down to the classroom and student level via the Web. The next day, you can revise instruction corresponding to the previous day’s benchmark assessment results.

Assessment Builder performs all these tasks:

Design—With Assessment Builder, existing paper-based assessments can now be easily turned into electronic, standards-based assessments. Each question can be weighted and aligned to state- or district-developed standards. Assessment frameworks are then automatically generated, showing you a detailed layout of standards being assessed and of questions aligned to each standard. Performance levels can be set for each standard, giving each district the flexibility to validate its own assessments over time.

Scoring—Once the assessment framework is created, Assessment Builder creates and prints bubble sheets on plain paper for each assessment. It also includes a bar-coded and printed entry of the student ID, teacher, class, and school for every student being tested. The plain-paper answer sheets are collated and sorted by school, teacher, and student. This reduces the possibility of error and makes distribution to the teachers more efficient. Thanks to Assessment Builder, expensive prepurchased scan sheets are no longer needed. For the ultimate in ease, our scoring sheets are scanned via standard image scanners.

Reporting—Once the score sheets are scanned, results are immediately available. Scanned results can be interactively reviewed for accuracy and, when approved, are viewed via detailed item analysis reports. If the results are uploaded into Performance Tracker, comparative assessment and many other reports can be accessed to help revise daily instruction.
 

As part of the Performance PathwaysTM suite, Performance Tracker works flawlessly with the other integrated applications so that you can:

• Create maps that help you align to state standards
• Access clear, concise charts and graphs for data-driven decisions that enhance instruction
• Create, score, and analyze local benchmark assessments

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