Acuity Overview
Comprehensive, integrated Acuity Assessment solutions support data-informed teaching and decision making
The Acuity® InFormative Assessment™ solution helps you diagnose, predict, report, communicate, and provide individual instruction — all in one powerful and award-winning solution. Acuity now offers a complete and integrated system beginning in kindergarten and helping you advance student achievement all the way through high school. You can use Acuity throughout the year to build achievement with individual students, classrooms, schools, and districts. Now Acuity delivers innovative resources for Grades K–12 that support your gradual and effective transition to teaching and learning relative to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS).
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Acuity for Grades K–2 Aligned to the CCSS
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Acuity for Grades 3-8 Aligned to the CCSS
Grades 3–8 -
Acuity for High School Aligned to the CCSS
Grades 9–12 -
Acuity State-Aligned Solutions
Grades 3–8 -
Acuity Algebra
Grades 6–12 -
Acuity Professional Development
Grades K–12 -
Acuity UnWired
Grades K–12
Assessment Type
- Predictive
- Diagnostic
- Interim
- Custom
Delivery Format
- Online
- Student response devices
- Paper and pencil
- Combination of formats
Alignment
- Aligned to your state standards
- Aligned to the Common Core Standards
Acuity Product Family
Choose any or all of these products, depending on your assessment needs.
Grades K–2
Includes:
- Diagnostic assessment solutions for the early grades
- More than 2,000 new English language arts and math items
- Sample assessment forms for Grades K and 1
- Rapidly available reports to help educators understand student strengths and areas for additional instruction
- Item authoring tools
- Performance assessment and rubric builder
- Instructional resources
Enables you to:
- Acquaint early learners with skills and concepts relative to the new Common Core State Standards (CCSS); introduce students to the general practice of assessment
- Create custom assessments for use with early learners using item banks, item authoring, and custom and performance assessment builders
- Deliver age-appropriate assessments to engage students in younger grades
- Prepare students for academic success
Grades 3–8
Includes:
- Four diagnostic assessments per grade for English language arts
- Four diagnostic assessments per grade for math
- Easy-to-use reports
- Item bank and item authoring tools
- Performance assessment and rubric builders
- Instructional resources
Enables you to:
- Transition instruction to the new CCSS with assessment solutions that emerge directly from the CCSS
- Incorporate an assessment model that aligns to specific intervals of instruction: 25 percent, 50 percent, 75 percent, and 90 percent of curriculum delivered
- Acquaint students and educators to the increased rigor of CCSS item types and assessments
- Incorporate results from performance task and extended constructed-response items into instruction
- Customize assessments using a CCSS-aligned item bank and item authoring tools
- Automatically assign instructional resources aligned to the CCSS based on the results of assessments
Grades 9–12
Includes:
- Five assessments for Algebra I units
- Four assessments for Geometry
- Three assessments for Algebra II
- Eight assessments for English language arts for Grades 9–10
- Eight assessments for English language arts for Grades 11–12
- Item banks, including selected- and constructed-response, extended constructued-response, and performance task item types
- Item authoring tools
- Performance assessment and rubric builder
- Instructional resources (coming soon)
Enables you to:
- Transition your instruction to the new Common Core State Standards (CCSS)
- Improve outcomes with accurate measurement and reporting of student understanding
- Prepare educators and students for the more rigorous expectations of the CCSS, promoting critical skills that help students compete in a global knowledge-based economy
- Respond to a nationwide focus on authentic assessments
- Create custom assessments using new and innovative item types, item authoring, and a performance assessment builder
- Deliver age- and course-appropriate assessments to engage students and promote understanding of 21st century skills
- Prepare students for colleges and careers
Grades 3–8
Includes:
- Three predictive benchmark assessments in English language arts and math
- Four diagnostic assessments in English language arts and math
- One early indicator and one predictive assessment in science
- Easy-to-use reports
- Item bank and item authoring tools
- Performance assessment and rubric builder
- Instructional resources in English language arts and math
Enables you to:
- Diagnose student strengths and areas for additional instruction relative to your state standards
- Predict student progress on your state accountability exam
- Assign instructional resources to students for intervention and additional practice
- Review student progress with helpful, easy-to-use reports
- Create custom assessments with a robust item bank and item authoring tools
Grades 6–12
Includes:
- One readiness exam
- Thirteen formative assessments
- One proficiency exam
- Easy-to-use reports
- Item bank and item authoring tools
Enables you to:
- Determine readiness for Algebra
- Identify Algebra I students who need remediation
- Measure end-of-course Algebra I proficiency
- Identify students for placement in higher level math classes
- Create custom assessments with a robust item bank and item authoring tools
Grades K–12
Includes:
- Introductory training
- On-site training
- Certification training
- Live Webinars for topic-specific training
- Acuity PhD™ On-Demand Professional Development
- Customized offerings
Enables you to:
- Receive high-quality, hands-on professional development courses
- Choose on-site, web-based, or on-demand course formats
- Apply a data-driven approach to your instruction
- Meet your teaching and learning objectives with customized options
Grades K–12
Includes:
- "Bridge" client software application or direct connect application for use with student response devices
- Complete interoperability with student response devices from:
• eInstruction™
• Promethean
• Qwizdom®
• SMART Technologies
• Turning Technologies™
Enables you to:
- Engage students directly with the use of technology-embedded instruction
- Assess students quickly and receive rapid results
- Make critical decisions faster than ever
- Support a data-driven process of formative assessment and instruction
- Leverage your technology investment in student response devices
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Acuity Resources
Featured Article
Customer Story - Jay School Corporation, Portland, Indiana
"I've been an educator for 30 years and Acuity is the best program I’ve seen. It can improve performance, accountability, and the culture of a school district. We firmly believe in data-driven instruction and, thanks to Acuity, we now live it."
Customer Story - Firelands Local Schools, Oberlin, Ohio
"Through the use of Acuity and its resources, not only has student achievement improved dramatically at Firelands Local Schools but the culture has greatly improved, too. The culture of our district has become that of striving for excellence and professional collaboration. It’s been only two years but the growth we’ve seen is significant."
Customer Story - Mesa Public Schools, Mesa, Arizona
Mesa Public Schools implemented Acuity to help teachers target instruction, measure progress toward state standards, and predict student performance on Arizona's Instrument to Measure Standards (AIMS).
Customer Story - San Bruno Park School District, San Bruno, California
"Acuity is one of our most valued tools. It provides student-specific data to ensure that we do the right thing for each child. While we use a suite of measures to inform our instructional practices, Acuity has proven to be instrumental towards the development of worthwhile learning opportunities for every student."
Customer Story - Jefferson County Public Schools, Golden, Colorado
"Acuity has proven to be highly predictive of our state assessment. As a result, we no longer have to wait to get our state test results back to determine student strengths or areas of need, or to plan professional development."
Customer Story - Clayton County Public Schools, Jonesboro, Georgia
Clayton County Public Schools implemented Acuity to help target mathematics instruction, measure progress toward the Georgia Performance Standards, and predict student performance on state tests.
Customer Story - Jennings County School Corporation, North Vernon, Indiana
Jennings County School Corporation implemented Acuity® in 2008 to help teachers target instruction and measure student progress toward Indiana’s Academic Standards. With the Acuity InFormative Assessment™ solution, the school corporation experiences improved consistency and data-informed instructional decision making across its schools.
Customer Story - Bayless School District, St. Louis, Missouri
Bayless School District began using Acuity to predict student performance on the Missouri Assessment Program (MAP) and help teachers target instruction to improve student learning.
Customer Story - Park Hill School District, Kansas City, Missouri
Park Hill School District (PHSD) began using Acuity to help bridge the gap between everyday classroom instruction and the Missouri Assessment Program (MAP).
Customer Story - Robinson Intermediate School, Aurora, Missouri
"We like to say here at Robinson Intermediate, 'Without data, all you have is an opinion.' Acuity provides us with the data we need to make a difference in our school. It tells us what students know and what they need to know, so we don't waste time covering skills they already have. This translates into huge dividends in student achievement."
Customer Story - Ohio County Schools, Ohio County, West Virginia
Ohio County Schools (OCS) implements the Acuity InFormative Assessment solution and Writing Roadmap to inform teaching and prepare students for the West Virginia Educational Standards Test (WESTEST 2) and WESTEST 2 Online Writing.
Acuity Usage and WESTEST 2 Performance
Acuity is a web-based assessment platform that provides interim and formative assessments designed to inform teaching and improve student learning. This study investigates whether there is a difference between the average test scores of Acuity's “high usage” schools and “no usage” schools in the state of West Virginia.
The Computer-Based or Online Administration of Paper-and-Pencil Tests
A description of what is necessary for test scores to be considered interchangeable between paper-and-pencil and computer-based or online modes of test administration.
Acuity Customer First Overview
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Acuity Common Core State Standards Overview Grades 3–12
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Acuity for High School Overview
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Acuity Growth Report Overview
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Acuity PhD Overview
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Acuity Predictive Assessments Overview
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Acuity Research Detailed Product Overview
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Acuity UnWired Overview
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Featured Article
Challenge. Innovation. Opportunity.
The Role of Assessment in the Effective Transition to the Common Core State Standards
CTB/McGraw-Hill offers the right solutions at the right time, giving states and districts the opportunity to prepare students, teachers, administrators, parents, and stakeholders for the changes ahead. Educators can use these solutions to support authentic and positive improvements to learning and teaching. Through our products, our programs, our ongoing research initiatives, and our forums for collaborative assessment development, we are partnering with our clients to create next-generation, balanced assessment systems.
To learn more or to discuss your needs with an Assessment Solutions Consultant, please call us at 800.538.9547.
Building the Best Student Assessment Solution: An Integrated Approach to Student Achievement Data in an Era of Accountability
InFormative Assessment solutions are key elements of a high-quality data system designed to inform teaching and improve student learning.
Promoting Student Achievement Using Research-Based Assessment with Formative Benefits
Research shows that technology-enhanced formative assessment is a powerful solution that enables educators to more readily monitor progress and improve student achievement.
The Efficacy of the Acuity Predictive Assessment Research Design: A Review of Empirical Data Studies
Acuity is a state-aligned product; for a given state, each Acuity form is developed to reflect the content structure of the associated state NCLB test.
Response to Intervention: Integrating Assessment and Intervention to Improve Student Achievement
This white paper discusses the purpose of RTI: to identify children who are struggling in school as early as possible, and to ensure each child receives the right instruction or intervention to be successful. By linking assessment and instruction, the practice of RTI gives educators a data-driven framework to quickly and efficiently respond to learning or behavioral problems, and to appropriately identify students with disabilities.
Improving Student Achievement: Professional Development and Informed Instruction
This white paper discusses technology-driven professional development resources integrated with valuable assessment data and classroom instruction to help teachers ensure effective teaching.
21st Century Approach: Preparing Students for the Global Workplace
A Vision for Innovative Assessment and Reporting in the 21st Century
Webinar: Innovative Acuity Performance Assessments Deliver New Measures of Student Understanding
Gretchen Schultz, Principal Assessment Specialist & Holly Bremerkamp, Acuity Product Manager
Webinar Content:
- Introduction to the Performance Assessment requirements in the CCSS
- Review of Acuity Performance Assessments and the CCSS alignment
- Demonstration of Acuity Performance Assessment Builder, rubrics and reports
- Questions and Answers
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