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Formative Assessment Item Bank

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To help educators prepare their students to meet and exceed

the rigorous academic expectations and demands of the 21st

century, Certica Solutions offers the Formative Assessment

Item Bank™, a dynamic, professionally developed Item Bank

used for creating custom assessments at the district, building,

and classroom levels.

With the Formative Assessment Item Bank, educators can select items that closely reflect their curriculum and instruction to monitor and track student progress toward mastering standards.

The Most Comprehensive Item Bank in the Industry

The Formative Assessment Item Bank is a repository of over 62,500 high‐quality, standards‐based items that have

been written and/or checked for a match to TEKS and aligned where appropriate, including:

22,000+ items for K‐12 in Mathematics,

including the following high school courses:

Algebra I

Algebra II

Geometry

9,800+ items for grades 3‐12; in Science,


Biology

Chemistry

Earth and Space Science

Physics

3,900+ items for grades 6‐12 in Social Studies,


United States History since 1877

World History Studies

World Geography Studies

United States Government

Economics

27,100+ items for K‐12 in English Language

Arts, including the following high school

courses:

English I

A English II

English III


How can educators use the

Formative Assessment Item Bank?

Why should educators use the

Formative Assessment Item Bank? Rigor and Validity Educators can rely on the quality of the items in the Item Bank. Items and passages come with

considerable metadata, and scoring rubrics are provided for

constructed response items and writing prompts.

Efficiency Educators who create tests using Item Bank

items do not have to spend valuable time developing their own

items, so they can focus on student success.

Flexibility The Item Bank allows for the creation of custom

assessments to fit specific needs at any time during the school

year by those closest to the instruction. In addition, educators

can modify items to better reflect instruction, to accommodate

the student population, or to use on alternate assessments.

Dynamic Certica continues to grow, improve, and refresh

the Item Bank to stay current with the changing needs of

educators. In addition to content and item maintenance,

development plans typically include new items across the

content areas, new interactive item types, and new and/or

updated item alignments.

Search items by attributes like learning standard, cognitive level, estimated difficulty, or item type.

Select items that closely reflect curriculum and instruction.

Analyze and Track results to monitor student progress

and measure achievement.

Administer tests online to prepare students for computer-based

required state or district testing.

Assess students’ understanding of concepts and preparedness for next-generation assessments.

Create custom assessments based on standards and

tailored to students.

The Leader in Item Quality Certica’s rigorous, multi‐step item development

process is a proven method for developing and

maintaining items of the highest quality.

The development process includes experienced

item writers, subject matter experts, and content

editors who adhere to industry best practices and

follow the principles of universal design.

Stringent item writing guidelines.

Items are written and/or aligned to the most

appropriate standards.

Quality checks built into each step of the process.

A minimum of five rounds of review per item for

style, consistency, grammar, accuracy, bias and

sensitivity.


Interactive Item Types

The Formative Assessment Item Bank offers a wide variety of item

types to assess standards mastery. The Item Bank includes traditional

items as well as technology‐enhanced items.

Multiple Choice

Constructed Response

Writing Prompts

Choice Multiple

Gap Match*

Graphic Gap Match*

Hot Spot

Hot Text

Inline Choice

Ordered

Text Entry

The Item Bank contains passages and paired passages that cover a wide variety of topics, genres and organizational structures. Passages reflect emphasis on informational text, text complexity, solid textual evidence, authentic materials and content‐area reading.

The Importance of

Technology‐Enhanced Items Technology‐enhanced items can be used to

help simulate the testing conditions of next‐

generation, high‐stakes standardized

assessments. By including a range of

technology‐enhanced item types on formative

assessments, educators help build their

students’ confidence in new testing methods

and increase their technology literacy. * Drag and Drop interaction

Spanish Translated Items To help support the unique needs of English language learners

(ELLs), the Formative Assessment Item Bank includes Math,

Science, and English Language Arts (ELA) items that have been

translated into Spanish. These items, which are translated from

existing English content, including over 10,800 items aligned to

TEKS and more than 200 passages.

Some Spanish items in the Item Bank are not directly

translated, but transadapted. Transadapted items have been

modified slightly to account for linguistic and cultural

differences, and to retain the integrity of the item content in the

translation.

In order to provide increased flexibility for educators and further

available content to ELL students, Certica allows educators

licensing the Item Bank the right to translate/ transadapt items

into Spanish for their own formative assessment purposes, with

the exception of third‐party, copyrighted reading passages.

Each item is identified with metadata, including Webb’s Depth of Knowledge and Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy. The Item Bank contains a variety of items at each cognitive level to allow educators to assess a wide range of student abilities.


Interested in Using the Formative

Assessment Item Bank?

Certica Solutions is proud to partner with a large

number of education solutions providers to offer our

Formative Assessment Item Bank. For a complete list of

Item Bank providers within our partner network, please

contact us at [email protected].

About Certica Solutions Certica Solutions provides

data management and education content solutions

that enable K‐12 educators and administrators to

assess, measure and improve instructional and

organizational performance. The company partners

with a diverse network of education technology and

assessment providers, and also delivers solutions

directly to over 500 school districts, charter schools and

educational service agencies. The company is based in

Wakefield, Massachusetts, and has offices in Harvard,

Massachusetts, and Austin, Texas.

Certica’s Learning Hub An Exclusive Resource for Educators who use

the Formative Assessment Item Bank

Launching in early 2016, Learning Hub will help to support

educators in achieving a successful learning and assessment

program. Online courses will be available in a range of topics,

including:

How to choose the best items and passages to meet

your testing goals.

Understanding item types and when to use them.

How to create great assessments.

Using formative assessments to help students succeed.

Interpreting assessment data and using it to guide your

instruction.

Learning Hub will also provide product materials, news, trends

and best practices in the field of K‐12 assessment, as well as

educator success stories and insight from K‐12 assessment

thought leaders.

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