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Your Data.
At Your Command.
Meaningful assessment does more than measure; it provides direction to
guide instruction and sets students on the path to academic success.
With the CTB Online Reporting System, educators can quickly and easily
retrieve assessment data, create customized reports, aggregate and
disaggregate data, and provide complete student assessment profiles.
What is the CTB Online Reporting System?
The CTB Online Reporting System is a powerful Web-based reporting solution that provides
administrators, teachers, and parents with immediate access to student test data. With a few clicks of
the mouse, you can create an unlimited number of tailored reports on demand for a wide
variety of different audiences thus eliminating the need for paper reports. The only limitation is
your imagination.
• Rapid access to your assessment data
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enerate reports in a variety of formats for diverse needs, such as parent-teacher conferences,
program evaluation, and federal reporting
• Review summary, classroom, and student level data quickly and easily
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iew and share individual student, classroom, and other diagnostic data by demographic,
educational program, or other groups
• Secure your data using encryption based on industry-standard security measures
Products Supported by the CTB Online Reporting System
The CTB Online Reporting System provides you with the ability to get data—on demand—from the
following CTB/McGraw-Hill assessment products:
• TerraNova,™ Third Edition
• TerraNova, The Second Edition
• LAS Links® Forms A and B
• InView™
• Primary Test of Cognitive Skills™ (PTCS™)
• SUPERA®
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Easy Access to Your Data
The CTB Online Reporting System helps identify the right data quickly so you can apply the information quicker and faster in the classroom. Information is at your fingertips with all the information
in one place – allowing you to have meaningful discussions with students and other stakeholders –
leading to richer discussions and more meaningful results.
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ain access to your data quickly. The CTB Online Reporting System decreases the amount
of time between testing and receiving results, putting data in your hands earlier so that students
get the help they need – fast.
•Save time, money and the environment by eliminating stacks of paper reports. Sorting
through paper reports to aggregate data is a thing of the past. The CTB Online Reporting
System streamlines your data analysis, allowing teachers to turn test results into immediate
classroom results. With a few, simple clicks of the mouse, teachers can uncover student
strengths and weaknesses revealing a clear path to their academic success.
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reate and customize frequently-generated reports with intuitive, wizard-based report
definitions and filters. Don’t just see your reports from a test publisher’s point of view; create
your own report templates to target the specific audiences you need to reach. Creating report
templates that can be used each year and across grades provides a consistent way of looking
at your data.
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inimize IT requirements and start-up costs with a hosted, Web-based solution. Access to
data is controlled at the district/diocesan level using a permissions-based login feature. Access is
role-based, so that teachers have access to only their classroom data and principals only to their
particular school, with administrators having the ability to view results of their entire district/diocese. The CTB Online Reporting System provides you access to your data any time, day
or night. Now your data are secure and available on demand.
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reate hundreds of unique and different reports with the CTB Online Reporting System.
With this freedom you can build and customize reports for special groups, focus on specific
trends, and drill down to student-level detail.
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Data Analysis
To see a full diagnostic profile of your students, you need to look at your data from many different
angles. In order to empower teachers to develop action plans and monitor ongoing student progress,
it is important that they are able to easily interpret the data they receive. The CTB Online Reporting
System helps you tell the story of an individual student’s academic progress through diagnostic drilldown information, taking you from a summary view to detailed reports on learning objectives.
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ggregate and disaggregate data at the classroom, grade, school, and district levels. Measure
student growth broken out by race, free/reduced lunch, special education status, and English
language proficiency, as well as any other desired demographic using the built-in special userdefined codes. You can start with a very broad focus and then narrow your parameters to target
the exact audience you are looking to reach. Don’t depend on a set of predefined reports that limit
the information you are gaining about your students.
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rill down with dynamic hyperlinks from summary to student level information. Create roster
reports by demographic groups, special populations, or range of scores to target students who
require advanced instruction or additional remediation.
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rincipals see class comparisons and schoolwide performance with drill-down to students,
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concepts, and standards for school improvement plans and actionable strategies.
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T eachers see current class performance with drill-down to student profiles and concept-level
performance for early alerts on student needs and instructional planning.
– Superintendents drill to see school comparisons and districtwide performance for
accountability and districtwide improvement plans.
– District Administrators drill down to see districtwide performance from subject area to
grade level for performance analysis and curriculum revision.
– ELL and Bilingual Directors drill down to view scale scores and English language
proficiency levels for individual student, classroom, building, student demographics,
or special programs (ELL, Special Education, learning groups).
– Parents can receive student profiles and published reports on school and district
performance to help extend learning in the home.
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xport data to CSV files and integrate with other data analytics, decision-support tools, or
data warehouses.
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xport data and charts to Adobe® PDF or PowerPoint® documents. Save documents to a local
desktop, or send to parents and other stakeholders to provide the data to continually monitor
academic growth. Choose email over print and save time, paper, and money.
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reate a student assessment profile including achievement, aptitude, or language proficiency
test data. Gain a powerful decision support system with a comprehensive profile of student
achievement and language proficiency history.
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iew achievement and cognitive skills data together to reveal the trends, growth, and
challenges that will make teaching more effective.
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–Data from TerraNova and InView can be reported together, offering an “achievement only” or
“anticipated achievement” view of scores. Anticipated achievement helps educators understand the gap between where students are achieving and where the achievement could be
based on their cognitive abilities.
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iew your combination scores from TerraNova, Third Edition or TerraNova, The Second Edition and InView to reveal the anticipated achievement of students.
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se InView to help place students into Gifted and Talented programs or to help identify
students requiring further assessment.
Achievement and Aptitude
The easy-to-use CTB Online Reporting System provides understandable, actionable information
you can present to key stakeholders to guide instruction and meet the needs of every student.
Quick and easy access to student performance data is critical to making timely strategic decisions.
Educators need to combine objective mastery data with aptitude data to understand how students
are achieving relative to their potential in the core subjects of math, reading, language, science and
social studies. With this data they can learn how mastery levels can highlight areas of success as
well as opportunities for student improvement. To obtain this mastery level data the CTB Online
Reporting System can be tailored for each individual user. For example:
– T eachers want a student ranking report to see the degree by which individual students
mastered specific learning objectives.
– District Administrators can view summary data or multiple data sets to find trends over time.
– Principals can view their school performance compared to the district and see how each
class is doing over time.
– Superintendents can quickly access all schools for a summary of district and school
performance.
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arents can use the Student Profile Report to see how their student has mastered the
learning objectives of TerraNova and can learn from the teacher where their child is
ranked among other students in the nation.
• Inform classroom instruction and differentiate instruction by ranking and sorting student
scores to reveal strengths and weaknesses. Use that data to make decisions about resource
allocation, and academic pacing so that teachers can differentiate instruction within their classrooms based on students’ specific learning needs.
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ifferentiate instruction to close achievement gaps and accelerate learning with student
achievement and language proficiency data at your fingertips. Accurate data offer key
diagnostic insights and can help you target instruction by allowing you to pinpoint special
populations, generate reports that track a path to language proficiency, or highlight specific
subject areas or learning objectives that require additional remediation. With the CTB Online
Reporting System, you can differentiate instruction to maximize each student’s assessment and
language proficiency growth by meeting each student where he or she is, and assisting in their
learning process.
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• Identify and target groups of students,
based on their student assessment or
language proficiency data. You can look
at the results from a single assessment,
or look at the change in performance
disaggregated by gender, ethnicity, or
educational programs to further analyze
the data. Monitoring the progress of these
intervention groups allows you to
identify students who need additional
help and to develop personalized plans
to drive improvement at all levels.
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upport school improvement with datainformed action plans. The CTB Online
Reporting System helps you identify
trends, disaggregate achievement results,
diagnose individual needs, and compare
multiple data points. With a just a few
clicks of the mouse, drill down from
summary to individual student level data
Language Proficiency
The CTB Online Reporting System
provides diagnostic data to help educators
target instruction by allowing them to
generate reports that highlight specific skill
areas or strands that track a path to
language proficiency. ELL and Bilingual
Directors can meet federal guidelines for
placement into or exit from ELL programs,
as well as track progress monitoring plans,
by receiving data back fast online with the
CTB Online Reporting System.
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TerraNova —Summary Report: Subtests
LAS Links—Summary Report of Skill Areas
Save reports quickly and easily to your
desktop eliminating the need to sort through
paper reports. Export reports into a CSV
file; create an Adobe PDF to be stored or
emailed; or copy images into a PowerPoint
to make informative, easy-to-understand
presentations to school boards, teachers, and
parents.
TerraNova —Summary Report: Objectives
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reate tailored summary templates to
define what you want to summarize, and
what data you want to look at.
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how your district level summary data
allowing district administrators to compare
schools at the district level and principals
to see how their school is doing relative to
the district.
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nce a set of report templates is created
and saved, you never have to go back in
and “recreate the wheel.”
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ort, rank, list, plot, summarize, and chart
scores. Data that are easy to find
becomes data that are easy to read.
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LAS Links—Summary Report of Strands
Logged in as: Access to data is controlled at
the district/diocesan level using a permissionsbased login feature.
Control Panel: The control panel inside the
CTB Online Reporting System allows
administrative users to create user accounts
with different privileges at the district, school,
and class levels.
Help: Users can visit the help section to learn
the ins-and-outs of the CTB Online Reporting
System.
Use strand summary reports to understand how to
deliver targeted instruction down to the objective
and strand level.
TerraNova —Customization Filters
Saved Reports: Once reports are saved they
become templates that teachers and other
educators can use year to year and across
grades.
Queued PDFs: Export data and charts to PDF
for future easy access.
Support/FAQ: Provides contact information
for any support questions and offers a list of the
most frequently asked questions about the CTB
Online Reporting System.
LAS Links—Customization Filters
Score Guide: Provides an overview of all the
score types available in the CTB Online
Reporting System.
Create and customize reports with intuitive,
wizard-based report definitions and filters,
helping you save time and simplify support and
training requirements. Filters are available by
selecting tabs at the top of each page. These
filters allow for quick modification and
customization of reports. Changes may be
made to multiple tabs at once before clicking
“Submit.”
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The Test Date tab helps you provide
consistency of reporting. You create a report
only once, and it can be used again year after
year by simply changing the grades and dates
on the report.
TerraNova —Test Date Tab
The Test Date tab allows you to toggle
between administration dates and change
grades you wish to view. Use this tab after a
report template has been created to easily
move between years and grades for a
consistent, cross-grade view of similar
data sets.
LAS Links—Test Date Tab
The Stats tab is your door to all of the
assessment scores available from your
testing program. Create summaries based on
student achievement using TerraNova scores
and/or access your LAS Links scores to build
reports that highlight and summarize student
proficiency in speaking, listening, reading,
and writing.
TerraNova —Stats Tab
Within the Stats tab you can isolate
specific subtests for a focused understanding of proficiency and achievement or create
a summary report that broadly showcases all
your summary data. Drill down to what you
want to see, tailored to what you need. The
CTB Online Reporting System provides you
with tools to create reports that have the
look you want —your imagination is the
only limitation.
LAS Links—Stats Tab
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In order to see a full diagnostic profile of
students you can use the Disaggregate tab
to look at data from different angles and
isolate information to get a better understanding of your data as a whole. You can
use this disaggregated data for program
evaluation, accountability, and professional
development requirements.
TerraNova —Filters Tab
With disaggregation you can tailor your data
to your own student populations. If your
school or district tracks special populations,
the CTB Online Reporting System allows
you to disaggregate and filter data by these
populations.
Using just a few clicks of the mouse you
can disaggregate an entire grade by
multiple demographic variables. Filter a
summary report by ethnicity or by LEP/ELL
to analyze trends by these subgroups. The
ability to see trends down to the student
level helps teachers target instruction in
the classroom. The ability to quickly and
easily drill down to student level detail
means teachers can spend less time sorting
through data and more time revising lesson
plans that target specific student needs.
TerraNova —Disaggregate Tab
LAS Links—Disaggregate Tab
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Use the Filters tab to include or exclude
students based on demographic characteristics.
To include a subgroup, click on the desired demographic variable from the drop-down list. Filters
allow you to choose more than one demographic at
a time to provide a narrower focus that can address
unique school or district specific objectives.
To select more than one subgroup, simply click on
another demographic variable. Then, click on the
word ‘and’ or ‘or’ to specify the logical relationship
between the subgroups selected. ‘And’ will only
show students who fall under all of the characteristics selected whereas ‘or’ will show students who
fall under any one or more of the characteristics.
You are not limited to just the predefined
tabs to track your own student population
of students. You can use special codes to
generate reports that are tailored and unique
for the populations in your school, district, or
diocese. The choices are endless.
No longer do you need to sort through stacks
of paper to find summary data by filter or
special code. With the CTB Online
Reporting System you can access filtered
data or user-defined special codes online
making it fast and easy to get the data you
need to drive student achievement.
TerraNova —User Defined Special Codes
LAS Links—User Defined Special Codes
The Other tab can be used to change the
number of groups (like schools or classes)
shown per page and hide scores for number
of students tested less than a
desired number.
For example, to hide scores for groups of
students with fewer than 20 students, click
on the check box next to “Hide scores” and
type 20 in the text box. Click “Submit” and
the report will now show only groups with
more than 20 students tested.
TerraNova —Other Tab
LAS Links—Other Tab
LAS Links—Filters Tab
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TerraNova & LAS Links -Summary Charts
Pie Chart
The Summary Charts provide a summary
report in the form of graphs, including bar
charts, pie charts, and histograms. Summary
Charts complement the Summary Reports
with a visually appealing format that can provide district administrators and teachers with
actionable information to inform instruction
and modify their instructional approach.
With the built-in Summary Charts you gain
immediate access to your assessment
results and share summary, classroom, and
student data with key stakeholders to meet
the needs of every student and improve
performance at every level. These graphical
representations help you gain a clear understanding of your data, thereby allowing you to
identify the most effective classroom strategies and practices and measure progress
against district, state, and federal standards.
Histogram
Bar Graph
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The Roster Report provides a list of data
(i.e. individual scores and information) for every
student by test date, grade, and form/level.
TerraNova —Roster Report
You can easily drill down from summary to
student level information and create roster
reports by demographic groups, special
populations or range of scores to target the
students who need help. With a few simple
clicks of the mouse you can instantly see
your whole class roster.
Use the Roster Scores to identify students who
have high, medium, or low score correlations for
more targeted teaching. Roster Scores allow for
selection of which scores are shown
in the report.
LAS Link—Roster Report
TerraNova —Roster Scores
LAS Links—Roster Scores
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Plot scores against one another to
understand whether or not scores
between two subjects are tightly or
loosely correlated. For example, you
could choose Language and Reading
NCE and see visually how the scores
relate to one another. You can then
use this information to plan effective
programs, diagnose possible learning
problems, or identify students
requiring remediation.
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Highlight specific students and
drill to a roster report for
targeted evaluation.
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View multiple scores for a group of
students by selecting a cluster of
students as indicated by the blue
boxes. This data can help you identify
students who have high, medium,
or low score correlations for more
targeted teaching.
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TerraNova and LAS Links - Scatter Plots
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CTB Online Reporting System—
Predefined Reports for TerraNova
and LAS Links
TerraNova —Individual Profile Report
The Individual Profile Report for
TerraNova generates individual reports
for each student with a concise summary
of the student’s performance in various
subtests and objectives, including scores
for InView/PTCS if the student took an
aptitude test. These reports may be
downloaded as a PDF.
LAS Links— Student Proficiency Report
TerraNova —Assessment Summary Report
The Student Proficiency Report generates
individual reports for each student with
concise summaries of the student’s
proficiency in various skill areas and strands.
The Assessment Summary Report provides a
summary of all of the subtests administered.
It is a quick and easy way to find a summary
of grade performance.
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Contact CTB/McGraw-Hill Customer Service at
800.538.9547 or visit CTB.com/OnlineReporting to
schedule a demonstration or receive access to a
demo account.
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