Student Progress Report

Assessment Center has a new feature this year called Skills Progress Summary. It allows a student to see how he/she has done on all tested skills in your class. To access it, the student needs to log in to Assessment Center. Once there, the student needs to choose your class from the list of classes in the upper right hand corner of the home page under the My Classes heading. This is a drop down menu, and all classes will be listed.

Once the student chooses your class, a new tab will appear in their list of tabs. This tab is called Progress Reports. When the student rolls over the tab, three options will appear, the third option is the Skills Progress Summary. If the student clicks on it, all of the tested skills will be listed with the students performance level for that skill. If the student clicks on the name or description of the skill, he/she will be taken to a list of resources that can help improve the understanding of that skill. There will also be a link for the student to take a practice quiz over that skill. This quiz will be a five question quiz that will report back to the student, not the teacher.

An important part of formative assessment is making the student a partner in his/her education decisions. Seeing where they have found success, and where they still have more work to do makes them an active partner in their education.

Give it a try!

Overall Skills Performance Report

If you have been a user of the Overall Skills Performance Report, you might be wondering why you can't find it in the list of Assessment Center reports. This report has been retired. We suggest that instead, you try the Detailed Performance on Standards report.

The advantage the Detailed Performance on Standards report holds is that it allows you to select the assessments that will be on the report. As the year progresses, you can leave off the assessments you took earlier in the year, and you can get a truer look at the current performance level of your students.

To use this report, log in and select a class. Next, click on the reports tab and scroll down to the Detailed Performance on Standards report. Once you select this report, you will be asked to select the subject, grade, and alignment. We suggest you use the Iowa Essential Concepts and Skills, the Iowa Core alignment. After these selections, you will click next and make another round of choices. You will choose which assessments you want on the report and which achievement levels. We suggest you choose all four of the achievement standards. Once you have done this, click next again and you will be taken to the report.

The first thing you may want to do is click the "View Larger" link in the upper right hand corner of the window. The percent given for each standard will be the average score of all students who took the assessment(s) chosen. The left column is all of the students in the school for the subject/grade selection, and the column to the right shows your class.

The letter/number designations on the left show standard designation used by Assessment Center. You can search with this code in Skill Resources to find activities that will help you, the student and the parents work on this standard.

If you have any questions about using this report, please contact your project leader.