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Acuity
TerraNova, The Third Edition:
TerraNova™, Third Edition promotes student achievement and learning with a full range of research-basedstandardized achievement tests, reports, and services. TerraNova™, Third Edition delivers all the features that make TerraNova an industry leader, plus key enhancements that help your educators improve achievement and learning. TerraNova, Third Edition is the only test to feature 2007 norms from an empirical study. Item alignments to state standards mean you can review student results in the context of common school and district criteria. The 2007 norms offer current and accurate achievement comparisons between groups of students. Test forms contain the option of Multiple Choice items or Multiple choice and constructed response questions.
Acuity:
The Acuity® formative assessment solution helps you diagnose, predict, report, communicate, and provide individual instruction—all in one powerful and award-winning solution. Unlike a summative assessment that provides a retrospective view of student achievement, Acuity is a formative solution that helps you transform teaching and learning throughout the year. It’s a complete and integrated system you can use to build achievement starting with individual students, and multiplying your success across classrooms, schools, and districts. With the Acuity formative assessment solution you can: predict student performance, track student progress, identify strengths and weaknesses, target instruction, and accelerate learning and achievement.
LAS LINKS:
Discover new possibilities to accurately assess K–12 language proficiency with LAS Links®. LAS Links addresses all of your language assessment needs—from gauging the abilities of new students and measuring their progress to lesson plans, instructional tools, and training materials to help you throughout the school year. LAS LINKS offers English and Spanish language proficiency assessments in a comprehensive, integrated systems of assessments ranging from instructional placement, instructional guidance, and support for all English Language Learners.
Fox in the Box:
Fox in a Box® aligns with the Reading First Essential Elements: Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary, and Comprehension. You'll gain diagnostic information through one-on-one interviews that will help you identify struggling readers and their learning needs, and monitor each child's progress on literacy benchmarks. This unique K–3 literacy assessment helps you identify strengths and areas of opportunity for early readers and provides learning activities that go beyond right or wrong answers. It’s a valid and reliable way to measure early learners’ development in reading, listening, speaking, and writing.
Writing Roadmap:
Writing Roadmap is a state-of-the-art online assessment solution that helps your students improve their essay-writing skills—while allowing teachers to spend less time grading and more time teaching. Writing Roadmap provides students and teachers with instant feedback on writing assignments, including automatic scoring, instructional guidance, and robust reporting. Innovative instructional tools in Writing Roadmap provide students with continuous support throughout the writing process, so they can immediately improve their writing.
CTB/McGraw-Hill
CTB/McGraw-Hill is offering NYCSA Services Dues paying members an 8% discounts on all products mentioned above. They have an 85-year record of innovation and excellence in assessment, and serves more than 18 million students in all 50 states and in 46 countries. One of the first American publishers to introduce objective, standardized achievement tests to schools, today CTB/McGraw-Hill is a leader in testing with recognized products for online formative, adult, and language proficiency assessment. Dedicated to advancing the use of student performance data to inform instructional decision making, CTB/McGraw-Hill’s innovation continues today with technologies that include Web-based assessment and reporting, student response device (clicker) software, and artificial intelligence for automated scoring of student essays. CTB/McGraw-Hill is part of McGraw-Hill Education, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP). McGraw-Hill Education is a leading global provider of instructional, assessment and reference solutions that empower professionals and students of all ages. For more information, visit CTB.com.
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