What is Assess2Know ® ? Assess2Know is an assessment tool that enables districts to create high-quality reading and math benchmark assessments for grades.

What is What is Assess2KnowAssess2Know®®??

Assess2Know is an assessment tool that enables districts to create high-quality reading and math benchmark assessments

for grades 3–8 that are aligned to your state standards.

With our 89 years of assessment expertise, you can count on Riverside to stand behind your test content and alignment.

• Create your own assessment program with an online test generator using your district pacing guide.

• Use our preconstructed fixed-form assessments that were created using a pacing guide reflecting your state’s scope and sequence.

• Receive meaningful results so that you can quickly begin remediation.

What is available?What is available?

Reading and mathematics items in multiple-choice format.

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• Pool of 15,000+ items • Individually aligned to each state’s standards• 22 states

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• Prepackaged tests based on state curriculum• Developed in consultation with districts• Louisiana, Mississippi, and Ohio

Where is Where is Assess2Know Assess2Know available?available?

How are How are Assess2KnowAssess2Know items items developed?developed?

Riverside creates Assess2Know content using the highest standards of quality.

• The professional educators on our staff have extensive item and test development expertise and work with experienced writers to develop reading passages and test items that measure specific standards.

• Items are evaluated so that students find assessments relevant, interesting, and engaging but not offensive, troubling, or distracting.

– Is clearly and simply written;

– Contains vocabulary appropriate for grade level being tested;

– Functions independently so that the answer to one item is not required as a condition for answering subsequent items;

– Is free of bias and sensitivity issues;

– Avoids information that is subject to change in a short period of time;

– Requires student to read the passage in order to answer the question (reading tests);

– Does not use “all of the above” or “none of the above” as answer options;

– Presents answer options in a logical order and that are parallel in structure and length.

The item development process involves careful scrutiny to ensure that each item:

How were items aligned to How were items aligned to your state standards?your state standards?

Before any items are aligned, a thorough research process is initiated to gather as much information as possible about your state’s standards, assessments, and requirements.

Items are reviewed for content, cognitive complexity, and scope. All reviewers are provided with training on your state’s specific requirements before they began aligning items.

Each item is reviewed six times by six professionals to ensure that it is tightly aligned to the standard, down to the most granular level of the standards hierarchy, before it qualifies for the item bank or fixed form test.

How are tests created and How are tests created and delivered?delivered?

Assess2Know is powered by the award-winning Edusoft Assessment Management System.

• Assess2Know can be delivered via the Edusoft System or as a content solution using local scoring and reporting methods.

• With Edusoft, districts can use the innovative paper-to-web solution to administer, score, and analyze benchmark assessments. Results are available within minutes so that remediation strategies can begin immediately.

• For the content solution, customers receive access to an online test generator that allows educators to create benchmark assessments to meet local needs. The benchmarks are printed and then scored using a local scoring system.

Why our items are of high quality…Why our items are of high quality…Grade 8 Reading

A student reads a passage and then answers this item.

This item is cognitivelycognitively more difficultdifficult than most items found on multiple-choice assessments.

This item requires the student to make a conclusionconclusion based on material read and to analyzeanalyze the information provided.

Grade 8 Mathematics

This item is a good multistepmultistep item that can be used to assess a student’s knowledge of graphing of inequalities.

The student not only needs to have an understanding of inequality graphs but also must understandunderstand how to interpretinterpret a real-world situation without an actual inequality to solve.

The student must analyzeanalyze the information given and then create an inequality and solve and graph it to obtain the solution.

Grade 5 Reading

A student reads a passage and then answer this item.

This item is an excellent choice for an assessment because it asks the students to provide a summarysummary of the passage. It is cognitively more complicatedcomplicated and demandingdemanding than a simple recall or comprehension item.

The high-quality Assess2Know items can be

delivered by the Edusoft Assessment Management System—a paper-to-web

solution that allows you to create, administer, score, and

report on assessments quickly and easily.

The Performance Band report shows average scores—overall and per standard—divided by customized performance bands for the group of students you select.

The Class List report shows how each student in a class or group performed on an exam, including results by standard.

The Item Analysis report shows how students performed on each item as well as how the test performed. Validity can be analyzed using the Kuder-Richardson reliability formula for the whole assessment and the difficulty (p-value), discrimination, and Point Biserial Correlation Coefficient (point biserial) for the items.

To learn more about Assess2Know and the Edusoft

Assessment Management System, click here.

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