Assessment Tools & Comprehensive Assessment System Resources

When the right assessment tools are used at the right time for the right reasons, data reveal a roadmap for accelerating student growth. Discover resources to help you use assessments to guide instruction and intervention and evaluate and enhance your own assessment system.

Intro to Assessment Tools & Comprehensive Assessment Systems

In a cohesive assessment system, each assessment type has an important role to play. Deepen your understanding of a holistic, comprehensive assessment system to help make the individual assessments easier to understand.

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Comprehensive Assessment Systems 101
Unpack assessment types, differences, purposes, and best practices—and how assessments fit together into a comprehensive system that empowers educators and supports each student.
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What is a Comprehensive Assessment System?
Discover the key assessment tools that make up a comprehensive assessment system, which assessments are administered at different points during the year, and how key assessments support your multi-tiered system of support (MTSS).
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Toolkit

Accelerate Learning with Assessment
Take a deep dive into how to turn data from various assessment tools into actionable next steps.
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Deep Dives into Key Assessment Tools

Learn more about a few key assessment types.

Social-Emotional Behavior (SEB) Assessments

SEB assessments provide valid and reliable data around students' SEB functioning to help identify and address non-academic barriers to success.

eBook

Using Social, Emotional and Behavioral Assessments to Support Student Success
Get a better understanding of the role of SEB assessments within an MTSS and how SEB data can be used to provide more targeted and effective supports.
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Whitepaper

Beyond Academic Screening: Understanding and Leveraging Social-Emotional and Behavioral Assessments
Take a deep-dive into the purposes of the two most important types of SEB assessments—universal screening and progress monitoring—and how to choose the most reliable measures for both.
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Guide

Improving SEL with Social-Emotional Assessment
Learn various approaches to measuring SEB skills and criteria for selecting a screener that gives you valid, reliable data to support your SEL program and interventions.
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Universal Screening

Screening helps identify Tier 1 academic and SEB needs and pinpoint which students are at risk.

eBook

Universal Screening 101
Explore the purposes and uses of universal screening for academics and SEB and how to use screening data throughout the year to accelerate growth.
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Maximizing Tier 1 Effectiveness and Impact: Planning Fall Intensifications to Accelerate All Students' Growth
Learn how to use screening data to examine Tier 1 practices, drive program effectiveness and equity conversations, and inform fall intensifications that accelerate growth for all students.
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Toolkit

Universal Screening Toolkit
Discover specific analysis questions to identify Tier 1 needs and pinpoint students who are at risk—plus, recommended next steps for a variety of scenarios.
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Progress Monitoring

Progress monitoring measures whether an intervention is working and if it's working quickly enough.

eBook

Progress Monitoring 101
Learn more about progress monitoring, including information about its origins, purposes, assessments, procedures, and an intro to how to interpret progress data.
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Toolkit

Progress Monitoring Toolkit
Discover data analysis questions (with recommended action steps) to increase your team's confidence in determining whether to continue, change, or fade interventions in order to close learning gaps faster.
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Progress Monitoring Across Spaces to Support Learning
Deepen your understanding of how progress monitoring helps monitor for catch-up growth, practice interpreting progress monitoring data, and unpack progress monitoring FAQs.
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Evaluating Your Own Assessment System

Oftentimes, confusion around assessments stems from having either gaps or redundancies in your assessment system. But how can you tell? Use these resources to inventory and evaluate your own assessment tools and whether they form a cohesive, comprehensive system.

eBook

A Complete Guide to Comprehensive Assessment Systems
Review the components of a comprehensive assessment program and discover six steps to creating a well-rounded, efficient, cost-effective assessment system that meets the needs of all stakeholders.
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Templates

Building Your Comprehensive Assessment System
Download and use the templates shown in the Complete Guide to Comprehensive Assessment Systems eBook.
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Using Assessment to Drive Equity

Assessment data play a powerful role in identifying patterns and inequities in performance, risk levels, and outcomes for different groups of students. Learn how to leverage your assessment tools to advance equity in your school or district.

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Leverage Data to Promote Equity in Schools
Explore how educators' approach to making data-driven decisions has the potential to increase equity in access, opportunities, and outcomes—and enhance equitable supports for years to come.
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Toolkit

Analyzing Whole Child Data to Drive Equitable Actions and Outcomes
Discover articles and resources for examining whole child data (including assessment data), through an equity lens, a facilitator's guide to equity-based data conversations, data analysis worksheets, and more.
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Whitepaper

Accelerating and Assessing: Using a Comprehensive, Balanced Assessment System to Equitably Close Learning Gaps
Unpack research and expert guidance on equitably and effectively using assessment to accelerate learning, maximize instruction, and support the whole child.
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Increasing Assessment & Data Literacy

Deepen your team's assessment literacy with exercises centered around your current assessment tools and resources to help bolster your data culture.

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Creating Data Teams That Accelerate Learning
Focus your data culture around assessment and data literacy in order to equitably accelerate learning. Discover meeting norms, logistics suggestions, and sample exercises to help you build assessment literacy around your current assessment tools.
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eBook

The Essential Guide to Assessment Design and Item Creation
Explore your locally developed and common assessments from a whole new perspective. Unpack assessment and item design to better understand what your assessments measure and therefore increase how much information they provide your PLC or data team.
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eBook

The Whole Child
Unpack how assessment data lay an important foundation for the rest of the whole child data picture.
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Build Your Unique Comprehensive Assessment System with Illuminate Education

Illuminate's Comprehensive Assessment Solution provides a complete set of standards and skills-based assessment tools to understand each student's academic and social-emotional behavior (SEB) learning and needs.
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What Your Colleagues Are Saying

Learn why other data-driven educators choose Illuminate's assessment tools to support teaching and learning.

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What Data-Driven Educators Are Saying About Illuminate
Educators share how Illuminate has made a tangible difference in their work.
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Case Study

Garden City Public Schools
Create a valid and reliable comprehensive assessment system.
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Case Study

Westside Community Schools
Use assessment data and professional learning communities (PLCs) to improve both core instruction and intervention.
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Case Study

Clarksville-Montgomery County School System (CMCSS)
Support student success with SEB assessment data.
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