Readers are assessed in approximately 30 minutes with an engaging computer-adaptive assessment. Based on their results, learners are seamlessly placed in interactive online instruction. Struggling students are routed through reteach lessons, and teachers are given instant reports to monitor student progress. Each Priority Report directs teachers to specific skills-based, small-group lessons for targeted reading intervention.
Teachers use assessment data as one of the most powerful tools in their classrooms. An important piece of teacher instruction comes from how they utilize this data. Data needs to be collected, evaluated, and then put to use through instruction and student interventions. Learning how to effectively use assessment data will impact student learning in the best way possible.
Progress monitoring assessments are increasingly important to district administrators, teachers, and students’ families. They allow a more frequent look at what’s happening with students’ learning.
With fast, reliable results, digital progress monitoring tools provide assessment data that can be used in a number of ways:
Screening for the risk of reading difficulties is a top priority for parents and educators. Istation’s products have been instrumental in helping identify students at risk of learning disabilities such as dyslexia, dysgraphia, disorders in reading comprehension, and other reading difficulties.
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Students are invited into a virtual recording studio where they get to play the role of a voice actor in a recording session. The sound engineer guides them through the experience, encouraging them to read naturally. Students complete a quick microphone check before reading three short, grade-leveled passages. The digital assessment is private, so students are not pressured to perform in front of their teacher or class.
ISIP™ ORF is an effective resource for all students who receive English language arts instruction in English. The acoustic models allow for a wide range of dialects and accents because they have been carefully trained on large, diverse samples including regions with a high percentage of English-language learners.
ISIP™ doesn’t feel like an assessment. Giving students the opportunity to become active participants in their learning path, games are an integral aspect of development.
ISIP™ ORF saves teachers time. It can be group administered, which means it can assess an entire class in under 10 minutes. Teachers have access to an online archive so they can review student recordings at their convenience and even share them during parent-teacher conferences. Color-coded reports facilitate data-driven decisions to inform instruction, and a built-in notes feature allows teachers to record observations and perform additional analysis. Since the assessment can be administered remotely, teachers can continue collecting data even in periods of distance learning.
Easy to compare performance between classes, schools, and even districts, the program provides a uniform experience. Students are encouraged to read naturally rather than for speed. Auto-scoring supplies consistent, unbiased data, which minimizes human variation based on experience or training.
Now available in Spanish for elementary students in grades K-5. Students can record themselves reading authentic, grade-leveled passages, which teachers can score at their convenience using the manual scoring interface. All passages were developed in Spanish — not transadapted from English. They were leveled using multiple readability scales, and there are enough passages for monthly progress monitoring without students ever seeing repeats.
Students can record passages at home, making it possible to continue benchmarking and progress monitoring even if they cannot be in the classroom. Teachers can access these recordings in an online archive, allowing them to check in on their students while they are apart. Data collected from ISIP™ ORF can be used to examine the extent of learning loss and even evaluate the efficacy of various remote instructional models.
