PROJECT RESPONSIBILITIES:
Product Manager, Project Manager, internal and external product evangelist, internal team manager, and vendor contact.

The internal team included technology 3-5 technology editors, and two consulting editors from the assessment team. Over the course of the project one assessment vendor and 4 content vendors were trained and managed.

SUMMARY:

As part of the grades 1-6 basal Reading and Language Arts textbook program Treasures, Macmillan/McGraw-Hill needed to offer an online assessment engine containing in-program assessment, reporting, and recommended remediation. After an analysis of the available technologies an external partner was selected and the product was customized to meet MMH's needs and house the assessment and remediation content aligned to program and state standards.

Notable features of the product include:

• Progress Reporter allows teachers to measure student progress in a variety of ways, and automatically delivers remediation and instructional planning for students who need it.
• Each test item in the Progress Reporter’s Item Banks is correlated to a specific reading skill and state standard, so it can provide direct, effective remediation and instructional planning based on test performance. This allows teachers to completely monitor student progress and to accurately group by instructional level.
• Easy to read reports are easily exportable to report annual yearly progress and teachers can measure the success of their students against state and local standards.
• Available reporting includes: Item Analysis Reports, Class Grouping Reports, Prescriptive Reports, Student Test Report, Objective Reports, and Gain Reports.
• With quick, easy and effective test-building features Teachers can easily create, view, assign and print customized or pre-made in-program tests or create new tests based on desired skills or state standards from an additional available banks of question.
• Tests can be assigned by a teacher, assessment specialist, principle, district administrator or by the state to ensure student progress on a variety of educational objectives.
• When there are not enough computers available for an entire class to take the test on-line, test can be printed on individualized scanning form answer sheets then automatically uploaded for scoring and reports.

Content entry required the manual conversion of text embedded in printer PDF files into machine importable files. This process included:

• Conversion of printer PDF content into rtf files containing coded text of direction lines, story passages, questions, answers, correct answer indicator, image tags, and audio file tags.
• Alignment of all test items to program scope and sequence.
• Alignment of all test items to state standards
• Conversion of state-specific non-standard writing rubric guidelines into standard formats.
• Extensive QA of product