At Measured Progress, 25 years of experience in developing state assessments has taught that effective assessments must reflect simplicity, rigor and transparency. Each assessment item must measure specific content knowledge and provide students with a challenging, but comfortable testing experience. The Progress Toward Standards Online Assessment (PTS3) and Item Bank (*PTSi*) reflect those criteria.
PTS3’s expertly crafted items assess third through eighth graders, and tenth graders in reading and mathematics. By offering teachers easy access to test items and student scores immediately after testing, PTS3 sheds light on content areas in need of special attention for each student.
PTSi enables educators to use a combination of item types to create assessments across the same grades and content spans as PTS3. By building custom assessments that include constructed-response items, item prompts and other assessment tools, teachers can evaluate performance during instruction, enabling them to make necessary teaching adjustments along the way.
The technology behind Measured Progress’s online products allows students to experience an intuitive online testing experience and includes items similar to those found on statewide assessments. Teachers and administrators alike appreciate the advantages of immediate reporting and access to test items PTS products allow.
“As part of our commitment to help students learn at the highest levels, we know how important high-quality items and superior technology are to an assessment program,” says Measured Progress President Stuart Kahl. “By virtue of both, PTS3 and *PTSi* offer schools and districts an excellent opportunity to build a balanced assessment system.”
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