Helping Your School Use Data to Personalize Instruction and Drive Achievement
Student data is one of the most powerful tools educators can use to drive individual student achievement and improve overall instruction quality.
But building the right system to obtain and analyze this data requires years of research and experience.
To help your school use student data effectively, the Center for Comprehensive School Improvement (CCSI) and CTB/McGraw-Hill work together to provide assessment solutions that allow educators to closely monitor students' progress, promote achievement, and identify effective instructional practices.
With robust data systems in place, school and district leaders can make real-time decisions about how best to deploy interventions and allocate resources.
Acuity: An Award-winning Assessment Solution
Through CTB, CCSI offers the award-winning Acuity® InFormative Assessment™ solution, a customizable system of assessments, reports and instruction designed to support better, more informed instruction and decision making for teachers and administrators.
Acuity supports educators by:
- Delivering a complete set of easily administered pre-built assessments - predictive, diagnostic, and custom
- Predicting student performance relative to curriculum; detailing strengths and areas for student, school, and district improvement
- Helping students master skills and concepts with instruction directly aligned to assessment results
- Supplying professional development, community, and implementation resources, such as data coaching and analysis workshops
- Offering flexible administration methods
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Yearly ProgressPro: The Highest-rated Progress Monitoring Solution
Based on 25 years of research in curriculum-based measurement (CBM), Yearly ProgressPro™ is an online solution that enables teachers and administrators to track and monitor student achievement. The National Center on Response to Intervention (RTI) recently awarded Yearly ProgressPro its highest rating for classification accuracy, reliability, validity, and sensitivity to student improvement.
Yearly ProgressPro from CTB supports educators by:
- Helping to identify and improve achievement for struggling learners
- Delivering specific, frequent feedback on student progress
- Minimizing risk of failure through data-driven, on-the-spot intervention
- Ensuring student and school improvement relative to important curriculum
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Writing Roadmap
Writing Roadmap™ is an all-digital writing assessment system from CTB that supports improved writing through practice and automatic, continuous feedback. Available for Grades 1-8, Writing Roadmap features a student-friendly user interface and engaging prompts and instructional tools that motivate and guide students through each step of the writing process.
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Data Analysis and Coaching Sessions
Offered in tandem with any of CTB's assessment solutions, these on-site sessions are designed to train educators how to understand their student data and use the results to make connections to best practices for classroom instruction.
Each workshop includes:
- Detailed explanations of one or more specific test reports received in that district with activities for classroom teacher use of the results (and, for some reports, use with parents)
- Connections from test data results to the state standards or the district curriculum
- Connections to research-based "best practices" in a specific content area (reading, writing, math or reading-writing across the content areas)
To learn more about how these assessment and progress monitoring solutions can improve schools in your state or district, sign up for your complimentary consultation page today.
