Assessments

Real-time Results for Class, School, and District Management

An important part of the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt solution is the Iowa Assessments™, whose strong psychometrics are:

  • Great for seeing where every child's reading level stands
  • Useful for identifying where each child is on the growth line
  • Compatible with easyCBM™ for diagnosis and monitoring

Iowa Assessments

The Iowa Assessments have been designed, developed, and researched to support a variety of important educational purposes. The information you collect may be for individuals or groups of students. Examples of appropriate uses of results from the Iowa Assessments include identifying student strengths and weaknesses, informing instruction, measuring mastery of core standards, and implementing Response to Intervention (RtI).

Evaluate Student and Teacher Progress

The Iowa Assessments are also useful in evaluations of student and teacher growth following a term's instruction. For students, you can take advantage of multiple measures of individual student growth. For teachers, the Leadership and Learning Center® can assist in developing a Professional Growth Plan using aggregated measures of student growth forfair and credible teacher evaluation.

Implementation Is Easier with easyCBM

After incorporating Iowa Assessments at the start of your school year, use easyCBM as a prescriptive tool to set a progress cut-off line for intervention create or customize a curriculum for "on-track" students. easyCBM facilitates instruction and intervention at every tier of Response to Intervention through a district-level assessment system for RtI.

This assessment and reporting suite includes a combination of benchmarking, progress monitoring, and comprehensive reporting. Available for grades K–8, the Reading and Mathematics curriculum-based measures examine a full year of academic growth, enabling you to make informed intervention and instructional decisions.

As part of the easyCBM implementation, bands are created to monitor student progress. You'll be able to identify at-risk students for targeted intervention. This program has a full suite of progress monitoring with a solution for every RtI tier. You'll benefit from over 30 years of continuous research in formative assessment as you evaluate your students.

easyCBM™ is a trademark of the University of Oregon provided under license to the Riverside Publishing Company. The Leadership and Learning Center® is a registered trademark of Advanced Learning Centers, Inc.