Workshops
Pathways provides training and workshops to better support the use of data in school improvement. We can also work with your staff to develop standards-based items and assessments aligned with curriculum. We can help schools develop assessments and use their data at the classroom, department, school, and district levels.
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Performance Assessments
Experience
In partnership with Measurement Inc., our reader/evaluators score more than 10 million tests annually. This volume includes evaluation of written essays; constructed-response items in language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies; and other performance assessment tasks. We have the capacity and expertise to handle a large volume of high-stakes statewide assessments and have the flexibility to apply the scoring criteria and standards demanded by each unique client.
Reliable results are assured by conducting range finding sessions with the client to define the range of score points; recruiting qualified scoring staff; providing them with thorough training and high-quality training materials; and conducting multiple readings of the student responses by independent scorers and then comparing and analyzing score data.
Our scoring staff consists of 30 full-time professionals (project managers and assistants) as well as hundreds of seasonal scorers, team leaders, and scoring directors at each of our 10 scoring centers. Our staff has expertise in a wide variety of fields, and many are former teachers. We are experts at establishing new or temporary scoring centers in the client's choice of location. On numerous occasions we have had the opportunity to work with states and districts to train local educators to score constructed-response items and performance tasks as part of their standards-based summative and formative assessment systems.
In addition to the performance assessment scoring techniques for which we are highly respected industry wide, we offer scoring services that include online and automated scoring technologies.
Perpetually researching and developing new technologies, we enhance our ability to provide rapid turnaround of reliable assessment results. These computer and online-based scoring technologies include Online Testing and Automated Essay Scoring.
Contact Pathways for more information on our performance assessment services at sales@pathwayslearninggroup.com