Achievement Series®
This unique and powerful tool performs web-based or paper testing to measure grade level knowledge in multiple subject areas. It also provides immediate results to accurately measure student progress.
YOUR STUDENTS, YOUR CONTENT
Scantron’s content-neutral format enables you to incorporate content from a wide variety of sources, including using our standards-based item banks, importing items from textbook developers, creating your own custom items, and much more.
1 + 1 = 2
Scantron’s two-part solution combines a research-based, content-rich computer adaptive test known as Performance Series® and a content-neutral, highly flexible testing product known as Achievement Series. Educators love using this combination to develop and administer online and paper-based tests. It’s the complete package.
Features & Benefits
Web-Based | 24-hour access to data from any computer with Internet access |
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Content-Neutral | Use any content or item you like, because that’s how it should be. |
Aligned with Standards | • State, Common Core, College & Career Readiness, or Next Generation Science Standards |
Multiple Delivery Methods | • Online or paper test administration – using the same test |
Collaborative Environment | • Team up within your district or school to create and review item banks and tests |
Immediate Results | • View reports as soon as test is submitted online or form is scanned |
Instructional Resources | • Link to more than 300,000 educator-evaluated resources organized by each state’s standards and readability through netTrekker Search |
How It Works
STEP 1: PURCHASE ITEM BANKS OR BUILD YOUR OWN
Achievement Series® allows districts to develop an unlimited number of item banks for test generation by:
- Creating custom-tailored true/false, multiple choice, multiple response, short response, gridded response, and extended response items
- Using Achievement Series to automatically select items for you based on particular educational standards
- Collaborating on item development by sharing items with other districts
- Using high-quality commercial item banks already aligned to educational standards
- Publishing question banks from ExamView® Test Generator
- Tracking cumulative statistics and storing items in one centralized location
STEP 2: DEVELOP TESTS
Create district benchmark assessments and classroom tests by:
- Using content from professional or self-created item banks
- Basing a test on a simple answer key using already-printed test booklets
- Publishing tests from ExamView® Test Generator
STEP 3: ADMINISTER TESTS
Mix and match paper-based and online delivery methods to meet the needs of individual district schools and classrooms by:
- Delivering tests online from an internet enabled device – PC, Mac, iPad, Kindle, Chromebook, (Android …is coming soon),
- Using a cost-effective solution such as off-the-shelf imaging scanners and printing customized forms on regular plain paper
- Using Scantron® durable Optical Mark Reader scanners and traditional standard forms to mirror high-stakes tests
STEP 4: VIEW REPORTS
Access real-time results to better inform instruction for immediate student impact by:
- Viewing online reports right after an online test is taken or forms are scanned
- Accessing standards-based reports for an individual student, class, school, district and more
- Analyzing data by subgroups and demographics
- Identifying specific student needs and strengths to adjust learning
- Linking to standards-based resources for targeted follow-up instruction using Skills Connection Online™ and netTrekker®
- Connecting to a variety of instructional resources provided by our alliances