Harcourt Assessment, Inc., announces the release of Learnia® Advanced, Texas Edition, a formative assessment solution specifically designed for Texas students in grades K-12. Texas is the first state with fully aligned item banks for Learnia Advanced.
San Antonio, TX (PRWEB) July 9, 2007 -- Leading test publisher Harcourt Assessment, Inc., today announced the release of Learnia® Advanced, Texas Edition, a formative assessment solution specifically designed for Texas students in grades K-12. Learnia® Advanced, Texas Edition includes a continuously updated item bank for grades 3-8 with multidimensional alignment to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) objectives and skills included in the statewide assessment.
"With true alignment to the most critical objectives of the TEKS, Learnia Advanced is a tool of unmatched utility in maximizing student learning and ensuring improved results on the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS)," said Learnia® Senior Product Line Manager Denise Gillis. "Learnia® Advanced provides a valid and reliable foundation of formative and summative assessments, with the look and feel of the TAKS, while providing item banking functionality to allow assessments to be created to match a district's pacing guide."
Learnia® provides educators with a formative assessment tool with unprecedented flexibility that informs classroom instruction. Learnia helps create an instructional environment where data driven decision making operates in a coherent and consistent manner, driving changes to curriculum, instruction and individual student interventions capable of accelerating student achievement. Through the use of short formative assessments, educators are able to measure students' progress throughout the year and make informed instructional decisions to maximize student learning.
Additionally, the summative tests provided with Learnia® Advanced, Texas Edition, provide snapshots of student achievement so that administrators and teachers can target students who need intervention and additional resources prior to the administration of the TAKS. With Harcourt's patented answer analysis teachers not only see where a student's learning has broken down, but understand why.
The new Learnia® Advanced, Texas Edition expands the features of Learnia® to include the functionality of content aligned to the Texas state standards. This new content is constructed to Texas-specific item development blueprints, addressing multidimensional alignment by including tested standards at the lowest tier. Items are further aligned to the cognitive level, breadth and weighting of the standards, while ensuring all standards covered on the TAKS are included.
Learnia® Advanced, Texas Edition includes the following new features:
- Valid and reliable summative assessments are provided to benchmark students to the state assessment as a foundation for further assessments administered to be administered formatively.
- Formative assessments which provide support for K-12 using either exercise items available for all grade levels or enhanced assessment items with patented answer analysis capabilities for high-stakes grades of 3-8.
- A Texas-specific item bank containing 4,200 items with multidimensional alignment to state standards.
- A flexible item bank containing more than 30,000 items that continues to be expanded and refreshed.
- A wide selection of assessment items that utilize Harcourt Assessment's patented answer analysis to pin-point breakdowns in student learning and inform instruction.
- Expanded subject coverage of the TEKS aligned instructional exercise items for reading and math, with science and social studies items included as a bonus.
- Integrated Professional Services and a wide array of on-going Professional Development services are available to help ensure customers success and maximization of Learnia results.
Learnia's state-of-the-art reporting features provide practical data with immediate utility for teachers and administrators. Data can be aggregated and disaggregated to easily identify performance by student, roster, grade, classroom and school - without needing a statistician to interpret the results. Tests can be administered and scored online, with reports delivered in two formats, fixed and interactive. The fixed reports provide immediate, summary results on how students performed on a particular test, while the interactive reports allow teachers to drill down and analyze results at the item level to identify exactly where learning is breaking down.
For more information on Learnia® Advanced, Texas Edition, visit http://texas.learnia.net.
About Harcourt Assessment, Inc.
Based in San Antonio, Harcourt Assessment, Inc. is a leading provider of high-quality assessment instruments and testing programs published under two brand names -- Harcourt Assessment and PsychCorp™. For more than 85 years, Harcourt Assessment has been providing insight about children and adults; informing instruction, curricula, and clinical practice; collaborating with educators and clinical professionals; assisting human resources, admissions and credential professionals; and creating assessment innovations, in order to provide the most effective assessment solutions for the success of all individuals.
The company is a unit of Harcourt Education, a global education provider serving students and teachers in PreK through grade 12, adult learners, and readers of all ages. Harcourt Education is part of Reed Elsevier Group plc. (www.reedelsevier.com), a world-leading publisher and information provider. It is owned equally by Reed Elsevier PLC (NYSE: RUK) and Reed Elsevier NV (NYSE: ENL).
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