Innovation

1. Diffusion of Innovations
“Edusoft”

2.  Benefits
 Develop district or classroom assessments,
 Administer tests on paper or online,
 Immediately access data,
 Provide instruction that will meet the needs of the students based on their
performance of the assessment.
Assessment

3.  How can I properly deliver instruction to my students
if the data from the assessments are not readily
available to me?
Questions Teachers &
Stakeholders Ask…

4. Past vs. Present
SCANTRON VS. EDUSOFT

5. Let’s Get the Results!

6. Scantron
“I wander how long it will take to get these results?”

7. ……… are the results in yet?

8. Still waiting on the results…
“I’ve taken my exam
and I’m waiting on my
results with Scantron.”
“How long does it
take? I don’t think I’ll
make it into Harvard.”

9. Check this out!
We have some

10. We’ve got a solution!
 By investing into Edusoft Assessment Management
System, we can help to improve the way instruction is
delivered in this school and/or district.

11.  Edusoft (The way of Assessment)
The Need -
It measures how well are students learning.
It measures how effectively are teachers teaching.
No Child Left Behind

12. Edusoft (The way of Assessment)
• Assessment is a process that involves defining expected outcomes; creating opportunities for all
students to achieve those outcomes; gathering, analyzing, interpreting, and reporting evidence so
that we may understand and improve student learning (Suskie, 2005).
• Measuring student learning requires expertise. While knowledge and skills in a major may be
relatively easy to measure directly, measuring critical thinking or even written and oral
communication requires specific assessment expertise. Assessment professionals understand which
areas are best measured by tests and which are best measured by performances or portfolios
graded with rubrics, or field supervisor and employer ratings. Surveys and focus groups are often
used to assess student and alumni satisfaction, however, they do not directly measure student
learning. It is best to have a variety of measures that lead to the same conclusions.
• Measuring student learning requires resources. The development of good instruments by skilled
staff and purchase of other measures are costly.
Reference:
 Suskie, L. (2004). Assessing student learning: A common sense guide. Bolton, MA: Anker Publishing
Co., Inc.
 Tinto, V. (2005, September 15). Student success and the building of involving educational
communities. Paper presented at Seattle University.
Proven Facts?

13. Edusoft (The way of Assessment)
Development
 Get all stakeholders involved with the process of assessment.
 Develop agreed-upon learning goals and standards for all students. (If there are current
learning goals and standards in place, review them and possibly revise them)
 Provide a Professional Development for all grade-level and subject-specific teachers and review
the current standards and student performance. Explicit details should be given as to how the
lower percentile students can be reached and helped to excel.
 Compare and go through data of all classes and grade levels trying to determine the weakness
of the students who are struggling and provide specific instruction that will allow them to
become proficient based on the data that has been collected.
 Design curriculum and instruction strategies that help students learn established outcomes.
More on Edusoft

14.  How often as educators or those who enter a
classroom hear students respond, “I know! I know!”
truly to discover based on their assessment results
that they did not know?

15.  Edusoft (The way of Assessment)
Commercialization
• Professional Development
• Mentor Teachers
• Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)
How to Promote Edusoft in our
school district?

16. S-Curve

17.  Click the following links to view success stories of
other Edusoft users:
 http://www.riverpub.com/products/edusoft/pdf/ARCHF
ORDl.pdf
 http://www.riverpub.com/products/edusoft/pdf/Edusof
tSS_Forysth.pdf
Success Stories