Naiku Blog: News, White Papers, and Case Studies

  • Naiku Releases Benchmark Now!

    Naiku announced today the release of BenchmarkNow!, a web based resource for teachers to quickly measure student proficiency in Common Core States Standards. Naiku is providing BenchmarkNow! as a free resource for teachers, and includes ready-to-use assessments to measure student math knowledge in grades 3-12. Download the full press release here: Naiku Releases Benchmark Now […]

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  • Naiku and Pearson Announce ISV Partnership

    Naiku announced today a partnership with Pearson, whereby Pearson will include Naiku in their Independent Software Vendor (ISV) program for PowerSchool users. Oliver Wreford, Director of Business Development for Pearson, stated that “Naiku’s collaboration and interactive teacher-student feedback tools in their classroom assessment software are truly innovative. We are excited to have Naiku as part […]

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  • Benchmark Now! Press Release

    Naiku is pleased to announce Benchmark Now!, a free tool for math teachers to quickly measure their students’ knowledge of Common Core standards.  Benchmark Now! provides teachers a set of professionally developed, standards aligned assessments in grades 3-12, coupled with the Naiku assessment engine so teachers benefit from automatic scoring and reporting.  Download the full […]

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  • How It Works

    Powered by Naiku’s cloud-based assessment engine to allow students to use any web-enabled device.

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  • Reports

    Multiple reports give teachers access to a wide range of student and classroom performance insights.

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  • Assessments

    Professionally developed assessments available for Grade 3 – High School.

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  • Overview

    A free on-line tool to help you quickly identify your students’ math knowledge and skills.

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  • Naiku New Feature: Matching Item Type

    New Feature to Matching Items Allows Teachers to have more Responses than Premises   Matching items allow teachers to efficiently discover whether students know a large amount of content. When creating matching items, it is best to have more responses (the list on the right) than premises (the list on the left). When the number of responses […]

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  • Naiku Quick Tip: Setting Proficiency Cutscores

    Did you know that you can set your own proficiency cutscores?    Quick Tip: The Class Performance shows you how your class as a whole and how each individual student performed on each assessment or each standard. Based on their performance, students are automatically categorized into one of three proficiency levels (Proficient, Approaching Proficient, and Not Proficient). […]

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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.

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    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 […]

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    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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