STUDDI
Standardized Test Utility for Data Driven Instruction
Mission
The mission is to put the power of standardized test assessment and interpretation into the hands of those who need it the most and who can use it to affect the greatest good: educators! Ever wish that those MCAS scores would arrive in a time-frame that would make them useful for informing your instruction? Ever think that it would be great if you could give home-grown standardized tests to help your students prepare for their high-stakes testing? Thwarted by the logistics of grading such a beast and then analyzing the results? STUDDI might be for you!
Basic Requirements
- Ability to scan & correct prefab or custom standardized bubble tests and populate a database with relevant information including answers, question information (the question itself as well as key words, state standard info, source, etc.) grade levels, section/class information, date, age, and other demographics.
- Ability to produce and/or scan bubble test sheets. Production of bubble test sheets should include student names or ID numbers for easy identification of student tests.
- Ability to store much of this same information for non-multiple choice questions (i.e. open response questions) for the purposes of proper analysis
- Ability to produce prefab & custom reports & analysis on the test information available.
- STUDDI should be extensible.
Growth
In the future, we see many possible ways that STUDDI could grow and become more powerful and useful to a wider audience of educators. These ideas include but are not limited to:
- Ability to generate standardized tests (online or hard copy) populated by questions from STUDDI's database of questions. Tests might be generated manually or automatically using key words, state standards, grade level, etc.
- Integration with a clicker-system for comparison of formative vs. high-stakes testing in your classroom.
- Ability to hold "multiple" databases - i.e. the ability to draw from a central database of questions & results for the purposes of analysis of your student data against a larger pool of students, or for the purposes of test generation with a larger sample of possible questions than you currently have. The "local" database should be kept distinct enough that it is easily transportable. I.e., you might help populate the "larger" cooperative database with your data for the greater good, but you still want a smaller, relatively portable database that can be analyzed internally. Contributions to a centralized database should be easy to make and guaranteed to be anonymous (i.e. no identifying data should be transferable to the communal/centralized database.
- Integration with other educational software such as BetterLesson, Powerschool, Centre, for the purposes of integrating standardized tests into your curriculum, or populating grade books automatically with test results, or even pulling student demographic data automatically so that it does not have to be entered into STUDDI manually.
- Ability to share reports or analysis between various users of the software.
Forum
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Related Links
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