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Assessment Center™
Comprehensive Formative Assessment Platform and Resources
Grades 2-12
Assessment Center is an online formative assessment solution designed to support state-wide and district-wide periodic assessment initiatives. It is uniquely intuitive and feature-rich -- and for 2010, has an accompanying item bank of 205,054 unique items!
The Assessment Center Approach
Assessment Center provides the tools and resources needed to generate and conduct periodic assessments; capture resulting data; and organize that data for use for individual, small group, class, school, district or state-level actions.
Drawing from our item bank of over 200,000 items, educators can easily create tests, using a simple 5-step process, in only a matter of minutes. “Smart item” technology uses state standard mapping, p-Values, Bloom's taxonomy, Webb levels, Lexile, and answer choice rationales to precisely craft a testing instrument that meets your assessment needs. This can range from a quick five item quiz to an end-of-chapter test or a quarterly benchmark.
With Assessment Center, educators can deliver assessments online or as paper-based tests to any combination of students. Online tests are graded immediately and available for reporting. Paper-based tests can be printed, administered, and then scored through local scanners, centralized scanning or an online virtual bubble sheet.
Reporting features include item analyses, skill breakdowns, disaggregated NCLB characteristics, and growth measurements – all available within a few clicks. Print reports to share at meetings, or download them in multiple formats for further analysis. Either way their user-friendly design helps effectively drive instruction.
Over 12,000 supplemental skill resources, including lesson plans, worksheets, and classroom or at-home activities – are all fully correlated to your state standards. Best of all, they are integrated with your reports so once a skill deficit is identified, solutions are only a click away.
Assessment Center in Action
Assessment Center has served as the centerpiece of a number of exemplary initiatives.
The Texas Education Agency (TEA) proposed using Assessment Center for its Texas Math and Science Diagnostic System (TMSDS). The TEA envisioned a responsive new state-wide assessment program to guide instructional actions in the classroom. They stipulated the use of CORE K12's on-demand, online professional development capabilities; testing in English and Spanish, and they relied on Assessment Center's intuitive second-generation user interface.
The Texas performance was extraordinary. At the end of the first year, they had enrolled nearly 500 districts and over 1.6 million students. The goal was to produce wide-spread participation – creating and using tests of all sizes to guide instruction. Demonstrating the highest degree of involvement, teachers in the program designed and implemented over 307,000 assessments to guide classroom instruction in the first year. It is noteworthy that while TEA had envisioned and funded the program, participation was completely voluntary. CORE K12 congratulates TEA and the Texas teachers on their extraordinary success in applying data to inform instruction.
The Los Angeles Unified School District implemented its periodic assessment program using the Assessment Center platform. The goal was to use data to influence classroom instruction and raise student performance. The program serves nearly all 700,000 students, delivering 76 unique periodic assessments across 232 distinct testing windows. This includes more than 600 schools covering 1,000 square miles. Subjects include math, ELA, science, and history/social science in various grades from kindergarten through high school. And per district stipulation – every exam includes constructed response questions.
LAUSD's results are phenomenal. In nearly every grade, the number of Advanced and Proficient students has approximately doubled from those who took no tests to those who took all three periodic assessments. And the number of students performing at Below Basic and Far Below Basic levels was cut by nearly two-thirds. CORE K12 congratulates the LAUSD administration and teachers on their success in using assessment data to inform and drive dramatic academic achievement.
While Assessment Center's credentials include successful use in what may well be the largest state-wide formative assessment initiatives in the nation, Assessment Center is not limited to solely large-scale initiatives. It is a highly scalable solution that is also used in many smaller, but equally successful, district-wide initiatives.
Highlights of a Second Generation Platform
Assessment Center is a second generation assessment platform. This is important because it indicates that a wealth of experience and user input have contributed -- over time -- to crafting an evolved resource with sophisticated capabilities. Significantly, second generation stature also indicates development of a highly intuitive interface born of direct user response and guidance.
Online/On-Demand Professional Development
CORE K12 offers EVON, a powerful on-demand, online professional development system, as outlined in this Portfolio. And we also offer flexible on-site workshops as well.
NEW: Dynamic Evolution
While there may be any number of assessment solutions in the market today, few can claim the depth of experience and resulting dynamic evolution as can Assessment Center. As you will read in following sections of this website, Assessment Center's dynamic evolution continues – introducing significant new features to meet contemporary educational demands and criteria. Assessment Center is rare in this regard.
Final Notes
When a state or district envisions an assessment program – a vision that relies on a high percentage of on-going teacher and student participation – the proven capabilities of the partner's resources are essential. Let Assessment Center be the foundation of your initiative.
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