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Project Title: Classroom Performance System
School / Organization(s): Pearson NCS
What purpose does your assessment tool serve? The Classroom Performance System provide interactive, online, wireless response devices (clickers) for classroom assessment. These devices engage students in classroom content while allow the teacher immediate information on student performance This formative assessment tool allows the teacher to monitor student learning toward state and district curricular standards and objectives. Content can be entered "on-the-fly", custom developed, or schools can use the free item banks available from over 2,000 textbook publishers, or purchase item banks directly from Pearson Education covering K-12 major subject areas.
Please indicate the category that best describes your project:
Technology as an Assessment Tool:
NCLB Statewide Assessments (Preparation, Delivery, Analysis)
Classroom Assessments (tests, quizzes)
Electronic/Digital Portfolios
Computer Scored Essays
Information Management Systems
Tools for Observation of Student Work/Behavior
Special Needs/Alternative Assessments
Other:
Assessing Technology Skills (NETSŸS and NETSŸT):
Digital Transcript
NCLB 8th Grade IT Literacy
High School IT Graduation Requirements
IT Certifications (Cisco, Microsoft, etc.)
21st Century Skills
Other:
How long has this assessment tool been in use within your organization? Over 7 Years.
Who is the audience for this assessment tool? Curriculum and Instruction, Superintendents, Federal Program Directors, Principals, Assistant Principals, Teachers, Instructional Technology Directors, Directors of Assessment, Research and Evaluation and Accountability.
What technology is used?
Hardware: Windows 2000 or MAC PC
Software: No addtl required
Networking requirements: None
Approximately how many people are currently using this system?
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K-12
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K-12 Teachers |
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Teacher education students |
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Teacher education faculty |
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What professional development (for students or assessors) is required to use the tool? Free Online Training is available or teachers can attend a 2-day Professional Development Seminar in which the system is provided as part of the Seminar cost.
To use the tool effectively, what else should the school have in place? Schools should have some form of projection device to present the questions. The assessment tool permits paper tests or scannable tests to also be used. It does interface with electronic chalkboards or smart boards.
If you haven't already addressed it, how does your tool help students or teachers demonstrate that they are meeting standards? State standards can be installed from the software CD and each question can be linked to the associated standard. Reports can then be generated by student, class, or subgroup demonstrating performance against the standards. Additionally, many of the available item banks have items already linked to state standards.
What are your next steps in developing or implementing this tool? The tool demonstrated will be the interactive wireless, a version of the response clickers is available in Radio Frequency which permits the student to enter responses from a numeric response pad. Data from the system can be extracted to other data analysis and aggregation tools or gradebooks and course management systems.