Assessment
Performance Series Evaluation and Assessments
Performance Series Internet-delivered assessment is a Standards-based Adaptive Measurement – a computer adaptive assessment
modified to measure the difference academic objectives of individual state standards.
Its goal is to give immediate diagnostic information to each teacher, including learning objectives a student
has not completed, and the academic gains made by individual and groups of students.
Additionally, the administration can access scores for the entire district as well as each school,
with full desegregation abilities.
Develop Assess Instruct
Since assessment plays an important role in driving instruction, it is important that the assessment actually
measure a student’s knowledge each year. The average classroom has a seven-grade breadth of knowledge,
but historically assessments have only measure knowledge within one grade.
Only the students operating at grade level were actually measure by previous assessments.
Additionally, there was no way for teachers or tutors to ascertain the true level of knowledge for
students performing outside a given grade level; students could be anywhere between half a grade
to seven grades behind or ahead of their peers. Teacher/tutors were unable to properly remediate or challenge students,
as they had no way to determine the true level of their academic competence.
The main advantages of Standards-based Adaptive Measurement are that:
- A large breath of knowledge can be assessed (across many grade levels).
- Testing time is reduced for the students.
- There is the ability to track academic gains on a consistent scale.
- Score reporting is automatically translated to the standards
set by the district to reflect true achievement.