Approved Solutions
Scantron Supports Assessments For Virginia’s Student Growth Model
The Virginia State Department of Education provides school divisions the option to purchase assessments that are valid measures of student growth for local use. Use of these student growth assessments is neither required nor mandated by VDOE. Rather, these are a means to support to school divisions by making available valid student growth data to inform both instruction and teacher evaluation.
Learn more about Virginia’s Approved Growth Model Assessments.
Scantron’s Performance Series (Reading, ELA, Mathematics, and Science), is identified as an approved assessment to identify a students’ current subject level proficiency, provide suggested next steps and challenges, and demonstrate growth over time.
Scantron is a proud sponsor of the Virginia Association of School Superintendents!
Performance Series is a research-based, criterion-referenced computer-adaptive test that lets K–12 educators quickly pinpoint the instructional level of students across a range of subjects, capture immediate results, and produce standards-based reports including suggested learning objectives on a scaled score. In addition, subsequent administrations of the test at specified testing intervals demonstrate growth in a subject and against standards.
Performance Series enables educators to identify the proficiency levels of students corresponding to state-specific standards, measure growth, understand student performance in relation to others, inform instruction, help with placement, and provide direct links to several teaching and learning resources such as Lexile, Edgenuity, Classworks, and others.
Learn more about what Performance Series offers Virginia educators.
Introducing Ascensus
Today’s Assessments Fueling Tomorrow’s Dreams
Scantron reimagines K-12 testing with Ascensus,a modern approach to digital assessment designed for the era of ESSA
Ascensus includes innovative item types, interactive student tools, accommodations for students with special needs, collaborative test development, modernized item banking, and increased test security options. Ascensus combines digital capabilities with proven, research-based measures of growth and skills for a solution capable of meeting the needs of schools and districts across the country.
