Acuity™ is a comprehensive assessment solution that helps educators
focus on the strategies that most effectively impact student
achievement.
Unlike generic assessments, Acuity identifies how students
are doing today, and forecasts how they are likely to do tomorrow.
Q: I need to spend more time teaching, not testing,
how is Acuity going to help me?
A: Acuity allows for prioritization through
the delivery of timely assessments, easy-to-use reports, and
engaging online instructional activities that are designed
to support classroom instruction, preserve instructional time,
and improve student achievement.
Q: How can I get my class to use Acuity when the
computer lab is always full?
A: Flexibility is a critical component to
any instructional program and Acuity is designed to deliver
results by allowing educators to administer assessments online,
using paper-and-pencil, or a combination of both formats.
Q: How can Acuity help all the students in my classroom—from
the weakest to the strongest achievers?
A: Acuity moves beyond showing how many questions
a student gets wrong. Instead, Acuity enables educators to
use data to group students with similar learning needs and
more efficiently deliver targeted instruction.
Q: I need results back fast in order to adjust my
instruction – how long does Acuity take to show results
for my students?
A: There is no waiting with Acuity’s
suite of in-depth reports for the classroom and school levels.
Immediately available, these reports are designed to provide
actionable data to inform your classroom. If aggregated results
are needed, we Acuity requires 24–48 hours.
Q: Can Acuity help me tailor my instruction to the
unique needs of each student?
A: Teachers often ask, “Now that I
know the needs of my students, what’s next?” Acuity’s
instructional activities allow educators to deliver targeted,
personalized instruction by skill or standard to each student.
Instruction can be electronically assigned to a class as a
whole, or can be assigned to individual students for extra
practice and intervention.
Q: How can Acuity help motivate my students?
A: Acuity features engaging item content,
plus online instructional activities with sound and graphics
to further motivate students to achieve. Acuity also features
a student report so they are keenly aware of what skills are
best absorbed—and where they need the most help.
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