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Formative Assessment

Nov 07, 2018

[Study Island Feature Focus] A Common Yardstick: The Case for Common Assessments

Study Island's Test Builder feature is an excellent tool to reduce the amount of time and work associated with creating and administering high-quality common assessments. Using Study Island, teacher teams can take a task that once required several hours and many different resources and complete it much more quickly and easily.

Karen Burkhart

Oct 30, 2018

[Resource] 9 Things You’ll Accomplish from Our Assessment for Learning Workbook

We’ve created a workbook to help you distinguish between various assessment types, build goals, identify best practices around your assessments, and analyze your data in an effort to make lasting instructional decisions over the school year.

Brita Hammer

Oct 25, 2018

[Administrator Tips] Using Study Island’s Built Tests to Guide Learning in Minnesota

During my years as a teaching and learning director in Minnesota, I loved the fall. A month into the school year, schools were abuzz with learning, and fall activities were in full swing.

Peter Grimm

Oct 24, 2018

An Educator’s Guide to Standards-Based Grading

Standards-based grading is a grading system in which the grade a student earns is a direct reflection of that student’s level of mastery of the standards covered. All other factors are removed from the calculation of the grade, or they are pulled out and used to calculate a separate effort or behavior grade.

Regina Waddell

Oct 17, 2018

Personalized Learning in Action: How One 5th Grade Math Teacher Makes It Work

Through planning and trial and error and with the help of online tools, Ms. Paquette has created a personalized learning environment to help her students achieve success. In this article, we’ll share what a typical day looks like in Ms. Paquette’s classroom and then break down some of the components that really make her classroom work.

Alexis Brakebill

Aug 03, 2018

[NWEA MAP Growth Assessments] Answering “What’s Next with Your Data?”

Edmentum can help provide assessment integrations with two of our powerful online programs, Exact Path and Study Island. Here, we’ll take a look at these two options, and help provide guidance so you can make the decision regarding what will best serve your students’ unique set of needs.

Madison Michell

Jul 10, 2018

[Program Enhancements] Study Island New Releases for Summer 2018

When you do head back to school and log in to Study Island, you will notice a few changes. As a lot of you know, last summer, we released a number of features that positively impacted the experience of students using Study Island. This summer, we focused on you, the teacher, and ways that we could improve your experience using Study Island with your students.

Hugh O'Donovan

Mar 07, 2018

10 Classroom and School Tips to Improve Test Scores

As your curriculum runs down and anxiety ramps up, you may think that there’s nothing more you can do to prepare your students for test day. But, there are always ways to help students.