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  • BenchmarkNow! is 2015 Finalist for edtech digest Cool Tool Award

    edtech digest recently announced their 2015 Cool Tool Awards.  BenchmarkNow!, a free common core based assessment solution for educators from Naiku, was designated a Cool Tool Award finalist in the Assessment category.  BenchmarkNow! is cloud based assessment software that includes math and reading assessments aligned to the Common Core State Standards.

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  • Naiku Quick Tip: Importing .txt Files

    http://www.domingoproducefl.com/?shop=4188 Did you know that you can import your assessments as a .txt file? A quick and easy way to create a test in Naiku is to import it from a .txt file. If you use Quia, you can export those tests out as text files. Then you can import those into Naiku. Alternatively, you can […]

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  • Naiku Quick Tip: Sharing Assessments

    Did you know that you can share assessments with educators in your school, district, or even throughout the world? Naiku makes it easy to work in Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) and create, share, and discuss assessments and outcomes in a secure, professional environment. Teachers can easily share individual items and assessments with other teachers from […]

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  • Importance of Formative Assessment

    Welcome back to this week’s edition of Naiku’s Coach’s Corner. This week, I want to discuss the importance of incorporating formative assessments into your classroom assessment practice. Formative assessment is a great way to measure a student’s performance during instruction, and usually occurs regularly throughout the instruction process. When we assess student learning for formative purposes, there […]

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  • Naiku Quick Tip: Adding Curriculum Maps

    Did you know that Naiku has a Curriculum Map feature that helps teachers organize their yearlong standards and learning targets? Curriculum maps are useful tools that allow teachers to see the “big picture” of their curriculum, instruction, and assessment process. In Naiku, your state standards or learning targets serve as the foundation of the curriculum […]

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  • Accelerate Student Achievement through Student Expectations

    Gain Visibility into Student Expectations to Accelerate Student Achievement The number one influencer of student achievement is student expectations (or self-reported grades) as found by Hattie (2012) in Visible Learning. To gain visibility into student expectations, Dr. Nhouyvanisvong proposes a 4-step process for teachers to develop their students metacognitive skills through goal setting, test prediction, confidence ratings, […]

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  • Quick Tip: Adding Answer Rationale

    Did you know you can add rationale for the correct and incorrect answer choices for each question? Quick Tip: Providing students with answer rationale can be a great learning tool. It’s a great way to provide quick, automatic, and individualized feedback to students. Within an assessment, rationale can be added to each individual answer choice. […]

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  • Importance of Pre-Assessment

    handypetes.com cialis Welcome to my inaugural post of Naiku’s Coach’s Corner. In this bi-weekly blog, I’ll share my thoughts on educational assessment practices and stories from my work helping teachers across the country improve student achievement through learner-centric assessment practices. This week, I want to discuss the importance of incorporating pre-assessment into your classroom assessment practice. Pre-assessment, sometimes referred […]

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  • Ordered Item Columns

    order cheap viagra Today, we’re also pleased to announce that we have extended the functionality to the Ordered Item type in Naiku. See our previous announcement on Ordered items. Now, you can add multiple columns to this item type. This allows you to ask students to drag and drop options into multiple columns. For example, you can […]

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  • Embedded Video

    Today, we are happy to announce that Naiku has now added the ability for teachers to embed videos into their assessment items. Embedding a video is simply taking a video from a third party website and displaying it for students to watch right in a Naiku assessment. This is a great feature because it allows […]

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    Premier educators such as Dr. Paul Bambrick-Santoyo (Driven By Data 2.0: A Practical Guide to Improve Instruction) and Dr. John Hattie (Visible Learning) promote the use of data in enhancing instruction and student learning. In this linked white paper, Dr. Adisack Nhouyvanisvong discusses these techniques and showcases how to implement them using Naiku.

  • Achieving Visible Learning with Naiku

    Visible Learning is an excellent resource illustrating the effectiveness of student-centered learning which Naiku wholeheartedly supports. In Visible Learning and Visible Learning for Teachers, Dr. John Hattie (2009, 2012) synthesizes research studies involving hundreds of millions of students to show the effectiveness of different approaches to improve learning. Dr. Hattie found that student-centered learning strategies have the highest […]

  • Use ACT Quick Checks for Progress Monitoring

    Naiku provides over 50 ACT Quick Checks for teachers to use for student progress monitoring in all ACT test subjects. ACT Quick Checks are short, topic-focused, formative assessments; typically 6-12 questions in length. Each Quick Check contains questions from a single topic, such as Math-Functions, so teachers can use to easily monitor progress between benchmark […]

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