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Best Practices in Data and Assessment

Every month, we share expertise on best practices in standards-based grading, how to streamline assessment systems, and tips to build a culture of meaningful, data-driven decision-making.

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Overall Performance Levels

Overall performance levels can be helpful, when used well. When there are repeated assessments, overall performance can help teachers quickly and easily understand student growth. Overall performance can also help inform decision-making for special programming, especially when comparing…
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Better Grading Practices Can Strengthen MTSS

These two and a half years of learning through the pandemic have impacted student learning. They have also revealed many of the inequities that underlie our educational system. Among our clients, we have noticed a strengthened commitment to…
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Not All Tests Are Bad. Some Are.

6 key components to help you evaluate assessments and know the difference Not all assessments are equal. There are high-quality assessments. There are mediocre assessments. And then there are tools that are counter-productive to efforts to understand and…
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We are an assessment data company focused on helping educators center the most meaningful measures of student learning.

Our articles and resources support teachers and leaders in better understanding their students and using assessment results to inform instruction.