VantagePoint — Reporting from Every Vantage Point*

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Make better use of your resources with VantagePoint, our secure, web-based analytics ASP application. Our data assessment management system - a web-based short-cycle assessment tool - measures student progress against key indicators prior to high-stakes state testing and enables superintendents, curriculum directors, principals and teachers to view AYP and performance reports in real-time at the district, building and classroom level.

Use VantagePoint to monitor and improve performance on state testing through aggregate tracking and reporting to determine early intervention needs. This web-based system provides teachers and administrators with critical information used to make informed decisions concerning curriculum effectiveness based on student group and skill performance. VantagePoint also tracks student performance against state standards. Educators automatically import assessment results into VantagePoint from TurningPoint, TestingPoint and paper-based bubble tests.

Run reports analyzing specific questions or create a summary of student performance across all indicators being tested. With VantagePoint, make informed decisions and take appropriate academic actions prior to administering state proficiency exams.

The comprehensive data and reporting available through VantagePoint provides numerous potential benefits to school district personnel.

Potential Benefits to Classroom Teachers:

• Find learning gaps based on standards or assessment items for individual students.
• Identify groups of students who need targeted assistance in specific subject areas.
• Compare student achievement to other similar classes to determine where students are having difficulty or are excelling.
• Recognize and work collaboratively with others who are reaching academic success.

Potential Benefits to Building Principals:

• Discover learning gaps based on standards or assessment items for individual students, classrooms or minority groups.
• Identify students where intervention is most likely to positively influence testing outcomes.
• Benchmark your school's performance against others in the district.
• Predict students' scores before state standards tests.
• Gather meaningful information for data-driven decisions for the allocation of resources.
• Spot pockets of excellence and leverage best practices across the building.

Potential Benefits to Curriculum Directors:

• Build curriculum maps and focus your efforts on improving the lowest performing standards.
• Identify which buildings and/or classrooms are performing well or pulling the average scores down.
• Recognize how different demographic groups in buildings and classrooms will impact your test scores.
• Establish a reliability index for test items to show potentially strong or weak assessment items as well as global gaps in critical thinking.
• Spot thought leaders for particular subject items and facilitates mirroring best practices.

Potential Benefits to Superintendents

• Track AYP and percentage of students passing diagnostic in real time.
• Review a balance sheet of student performance.