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.
Check out our Professional Development for more information.
Performance Assessments
FOLIO™ WRITING ASSESSMENT SYSTEM
Folio™ An innovative hand-scored writing assessment program proven to increase student writing proficiency
Folio™ combines multi-trait professional hand-scoring for specific essay prompts with the accessibility of a web-based reporting tool. The result is an objective, highly reliable framework for accurately measuring students’ writing proficiency.It also gives educators the tools, information, and data-driven professional development they need to individualize instruction and increase student writing achievement.
With Folio™ your school will experience:- The industry’s most accurate, reliable, and objective hand-scoring
- The ability to pinpoint weaknesses based on diagnostic trait scores
- Highly predictive hand-scoring that correlates to official state exams
- More time for teachers to focus on teaching and planning —not grading essays
- Easy implementation and fast score turnaround for timely intervention
- Targeted instruction informed by online reporting that tracks performance and measures progress
- Professional development to help teachers interpret results and tailor instruction aimed at improving writing
Paper-Based Writing Assessment
Folio™ Hand-Scored Writing Assessment
- Standards-based customized writing-specific essay prompts
- Students’ written essays scanned and hand-scored by within 5 business days using scoring rubrics modeled directly on Standards-based rubrics
- Holistic and diagnostic trait scores for each student essay
- Pre-coded essay booklets pre-sorted by class and delivered directly to schools for easy classroom administration
Online Reporting and Analysis for Data-Driven Decision Making
- Fast turnaround and availability of scores and results online
- Detailed diagnostic, summary, comparative and longitudinal reports at the class, school and district levels
- Report drill-down, export, and print functionality
- Individual student reports with links to student essays
- Annotated authentic student essay exemplars and scoring explanations at all scoring levels
- Role-based user access to reports and student information Professional Development and Training
- Scoring workshops and product training delivered by trained experts in writing assessments to foster mastery of the standards-based scoring rubric and to provide score interpretation among teachers and/or facilitators and coaches
Contact Pathways for more information on our performance assessment services at sales@pathwayslearninggroup.com