Instructional Resources

Lexile Measure®

The most widely adopted reading measure in use today, provides a common scale for matching reader ability and text difficulty, allowing teachers to differentiate instruction based on assessment results and locate materials appropriate to each level.

NetTrekker

The award-winning netTrekker d.i., from Thinkronize®, is integrated into Scantron's assessment solution, directly connecting scores more than 180,000 educator- selected resources, organized by readability level and aligned to each state's standards.

Skills Connection Online™

Scantron's online tool for study set creation using an item bank database that contains mathematics, language arts, reading and life science items alongside study guides with specific, comprehensive skill descriptions that function as step-by-step tutorials for teachers, parents, or assistants.

Features & Benefits

Personalized Testing

Traditional "standardized assessments" focus on state standards for one grade level at a time, making it challenging to determine overall student placement or to focus on individual student needs.

  • Performance Series provides students with tests custom-tailored to their proficiencies in reading, math, language arts, and life science.
  • The online test adjusts automatically to each student's ability level, generating more difficult questions if the student is answering correctly and easier ones if the student is answering incorrectly.
  • Students do not spend unnecessary time on test items that are much too difficult or too simple, leading to less time testing and more time learning.
  • The result is a valid and reliable "scaled score" that can be used to measure academic growth just as a yardstick is used to measure a child's growth in height.

Individualized Learning

Sample student path

Performance Series enables teachers to create an individualized learning plan for each student based on their particular needs.

  • Scantron's unique Suggested Learning Objectives organize skills and concepts by ability level, according to the Performance Series scaled score.
  • These skills and concepts, aligned to state or Common Core standards, help guide instruction by identifying the "next steps" for the teacher, student, and parent.

Insightful Reports

Performance Series gives you an accurate portrait of each student's instructional level over a wide breadth of knowledge.

  • Track individual student, school and even district-wide progress and gains across time.
  • Compare performance scores to state standards content, national student groups and reading resources through the Scaled Score, Standards Item Pool Score, National Percentile Ranking, and an optional Lexile® Reading Score.
  • Develop custom learning plans for each student immediately after the first assessment with only a few clicks, based on state or Common Core standards.

Immediate Results

  • As an on-line test, Performance Series provides results immediately so that teachers can impact instruction and properly place students.

Web-Based

  • Access either data or student assessments any time and from any location with an internet connection.