Costs Money

• Sample issue exploration for a school district with letter to principals

Learning.com

• Use Learning.com at an approximate cost of $3 per student to assess students. This is for a district with 3500 8th graders. Total cost is $14,000, which includes a $3500 setup fee.

Free/No-Cost

InfoSource Learning’s SimpleAssessment.com

• Free solution from InfoSource Learning
• Assessment can take up to 2 hours to complete per student
• Web accessible, no special browser add-ons required (except the usual stuff)
• Video Tutorials:
  • SimpleAssessment Demo (WMV)
  • Import Training Video
  • Name of the Testing site: districtnametechassessment.howtomaster.com
  • Student Import Template (googledocs)
  • InfoSource Learning’s Learning management system tutorials
• Contact is Brian Cahill at InfoSource Learning

Moodle-ize an Assessment

• Use an assessment like the one Kari Rhame offers and put it into Moodle so that students can login and take the assessment via Moodle. Cost? None (except for staff time).
• Some downloadable Moodle courses available here:
  • White Oak ISD
  • San Antonio ISD – this was created with Captivate to enable the questions to be random, and shared via Moodle. Courtesy of Greg Rodriguez, San Antonio ISD.

8th Grade Assessment Examples

• Kari Rhame shared a paper assessment for 8th grade that she prepared for Learning.com. Her note is as follows:

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