Education Week

Benchmark Assessments Offer Regular Checkups On Student Achievement

School districts worried about how students will perform on end-of-the-year state tests are increasingly administering “benchmark assessments” throughout the year to measure students’ progress and ...
Business Wire

Accelerate Learning Partners with MetaMetrics to Offer Benchmark Assessments and Quantile Measures in New STEMscopes Core Math Program

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Accelerate Learning is partnering with MetaMetrics®, creator of the Quantile Framework® for Mathematics, to integrate benchmark assessments and Quantile® measures into the ...
The Baltimore Sun

Carroll middle schools finish first year of using benchmark assessments to drive curriculum

Carroll County Public School administrators are using newly added middle school benchmark assessments to help drive curriculum and address problem areas in Carroll’s schools. The assessments, which ...
Detroit Free Press

Michigan M-STEP scores reveal students lag in nearly every grade, category

Students lagged in nearly every grade and category on state tests taken in the spring of 2021, according to scores released Tuesday by the Michigan Department of Education. Those scores, and separate ...
Education Week

Types of Assessments: A Head-to-Head Comparison

What is the difference between formative and interim assessments? Here’s a guide for distinguishing different kinds of student assessments. Formative Learning Assessment: Formative learning is the ...