Performance Series

Performance Series
Diagnostic Assessment
Assessment Solutions
As an educator, you are keenly aware that every child learns
at a different pace and has different instructional needs.
Unfortunately, it is not easy to recognize these needs and provide
each student with individualized instruction targeted at his or
her proficiency level.
Performance Series from Scantron is a computer-adaptive test that
lets you quickly pinpoint the proficiency level of your students,
across a range of subjects, that correspond with the specific
standards of your state. This provides for more accurate
student placement; diagnosis of instructional needs, including
instructional adjustments; and measurement of student gains
across reporting periods.
Uncategorized
Students
Performance Series
[1st Testing Period]
Individualized
Learning
Performance Series
[2nd Testing Period]
Measure
Gains
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 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.
Available Subject Areas
Reading
Language Arts
Math (English and Spanish)
Life Science and Inquiry
Sample Path for a Student
Individualized Learning
Insightful Reports
Performance Series enables teachers
to create an individualized learning
plan for each student based on their
particular needs.
Performance Series gives you an
accurate portrait of each student’s
instructional level over a wide breadth
of knowledge.
• Scantron’s unique Suggested Learning
Objectives report organizes skills and
concepts by ability level, according to
the Performance Series scaled score.
• Immediate results allow you to
place students in the appropriate
grade, course, or group within
minutes of being tested.
•These skills and concepts, aligned
to either state or Common Core
standards, help guide instruction
by identifying the “next steps” for
the teacher, student, and parent.
•Track individual student, school,
intervention program and
even district-wide progress.
•All reports are aligned to specific
standards, state or Common
Core, for easy correlation to
teaching requirements.
• Performance bands allow custom
criteria to be embedded into reports,
and enable multiple analyses
by the varying stakeholders.
• Scores include a Scaled Score
“yardstick,” Standards Item Pool Score,
National Percentile Ranking, and
an optional Lexile® Reading Score.
“With Performance Series used throughout the district, we have
reliable data about the strengths and weaknesses of all students
—in time to be useful.”
Leon Cope, Principal, Tenaya Middle School, Merced City School District
“We’ve found Performance Series to be a streamlined, accurate,
accessible, and affordable way to test our students. It saves the
teachers and me hours and hours of work.”
Larry Bolinger, Principal, Bay High School, Panama City, Florida
“In the past, a major focus was on what the students could not do.
Now that we have accurate assessments of what they can do, it’s
easier to formulate goals and objectives so they can be successful.”
Greg Petersen, Associate, Department of Student Support Services Bartow County School System
Part of a Complete Assessment Solution
Scantron’s assessment solution helps educators meet accountability requirements and raise the level of student achievement through a
unique combination of standards-based formative assessment and computer-adaptive diagnostic testing. Scantron’s solution combines a
research-based, content-rich computer adaptive test known as Performance Series and a content-neutral, highly flexible testing product
known as Achievement Series® that educators use to develop and administer online and paper-based tests.
For more information, visit us at www.scantron.com/k12 or contact your Scantron Testing & Assessment
representative at 800-SCANTRON x7433 (722-6876 x7433) or e-mail [email protected].
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