Six pre-packaged assessments in core subject areas to monitor rates of improvement including five formative assessments and one summative assessment. Assessments will align to state standards and include researched and validity assured items.
 

 A classroom student response system that engages your students and makes the assessment process simple to administer. Tests are paperless and instantly graded. System includes:

• TurningPoint and TurningPoint AnyWhere™ polling software
• 32 ResponseCard RF LCD clickers
• 1 USB-based RF receiver
• Subscription to QuestionPoint - state-aligned question bank
• Customized carrying case
• Technical support

An intuitive real time web-based reporting system for teachers and administrators.  The Progress Monitoring Module is a comprehensive data-analysis tool to examine leading indicators that classroom teachers have collected using Turning's student response systems or paper bubble sheets. Reports can be filtered by key sub-groups crucial to AYP.

As part of your one-year subscription, users receive comprehensive 24/7 online professional development to ensure successful progress monitoring implementation.  PD includes videos, presentations, best practices and integration strategies for progress monitoring, assessment writing, and data analysis.

The Progress Monitoring Module can be expanded to include entire district-wide reporting of lagging data such as state test scores for analyzing longitudinal state test results.

Challenge:

Using student data to make solid teaching decisions.

Solution:

Integrating Turning Technologies’ response systems with Performance Matters to collect and disaggregate data to assist teachers.

With a student body of approximately 10,000 students in 11 different schools, Wayzata School District is recognizing the importance of using data to:

• Create common assessments across grade levels
• Perform periodic monitoring of student achievement
• Adjust teaching practices based on data
• Link assessment directly to standards
• Use district professional learning teams to analyze how students are performing

Citrus County faculty found that with the Performance Matters' data and the TurningPoint response system, they can address specific areas of concern and assess student comprehension in real time with immediate results.

Citrus County tested the student response system during a special benchmark assessment given to an 8th grade science course during the first week of classes. Half of students were taught and evaluated using the TurningPoint system with immediate review questions following instruction to ensure students’ subject mastery. The other group was taught using traditional methods. When reevaluated on the same material presented in the benchmark assessment, the response technology students saw an increase in student comprehension of approximately 40%, while students taught using traditional methods saw a 10% increase in comprehension. The data demonstrates that students using clickers benefit from the immediate comprehensive review offered using the TurningPoint response system and retained information longer.