Meet Acuity®:

In this era of continually evolving standards, educators need an interim assessment solution that provides a valid and reliable measure of student growth, combined with practical instructional content — that’s Acuity.

Assessments, Reporting and Instructional Resources that Inform Education in One Flexible Solution.

PredictiveWhen students take an interim assessment, Acuity produces real-time data that is predictive of future performance on summative exams. This data helps identify the student’s strengths and knowledge gaps — and informs instruction to close the gaps.

Succeeding in an evolving era of standards requires a flexible and complete solution.

School districts need a comprehensive interim assessment solution that prepares students for summative assessments and improves achievement. The solution needs to be accurate and reliable; sophisticated yet easy to use; reflective of the blueprint, rigor and items of the new standards; and flexible enough to stay relevant into the future. Acuity delivers on each of these, and is from a known and trusted partner — McGraw-Hill Education.

What is Acuity? Acuity is a standards-based interim assessment solution that offers both computer-adaptive and fixed-form approaches for K-12 that measures student growth and proficiency and informs instruction. The data-driven solution is in use every day in thousands of districts, helping educators gain a deeper understanding of each student’s strengths and opportunities for instructional improvement relative to state standards.

Flexible to Improve Student Readiness

CustomizableAcuity allows test authors to choose computer-adaptive or fixed-format assessments. Educators can author tests in part or in whole, and use item banks included in the system. Assessments can be given on the computer or in printed form.

Practice-Ready With Acuity, students gain experience with technology-based test taking all year long. Getting “practice time” via interim assessments can boost students’ confidence and help reduce anxiety when it is time for a summative assessment.

Acuity combines the power of trusted interim assessments with rich instructional content built right in.

Targeted Instruction You Can UseThe actionable insights delivered by Acuity target practical instruction, highlighting optimal learning paths for each student and class. Acuity makes it easy with instructional resources and engaging content embedded in the system. Acuity customers also have access to a wealth of other high-quality instructional resources from McGraw-Hill Education, with practice options for college and career ready summative assessments, including those from PARCCTM and Smarter BalancedTM.

Reporting Educators Can Rely On Acuity reports provide valuable information to all stakeholders. Teachers use them to obtain granular insights at the student level, helping streamline teaching strategies. Administrators use them to evaluate programs and monitor growth and performance at the student, grade, school, district and state level. Students and parents use them to track learning goals.

Reliability Educators Can Trust Acuity provides consistently high-quality assessments, thanks to its research-based items. In addition, items are developed in the spirit of the new college and career readiness standards — which call for student mastery of skills relevant to real-world scenarios, not just memorized facts. Educators can assess skills at the deepest level, resulting in an accurate measurement of each student’s true understanding of grade level standards.

Flexibility Educators Can LeverageWith both fixed-form and computer-adaptive approaches, Acuity gives educators flexibility in how to develop and administer assessments. Fixed-form assessments can be created to support district-wide standards or individualized education plans (IEPs). Our computer-adaptive model leverages a proprietary assessment engine known as ShadowCAT™. This unique engine triangulates data to ensure the “right” question is always being asked next, based on previous answers.

Rich Data Provides Actionable InsightsWhen it comes to helping students succeed, most teachers don’t need more data — what’s helpful is more accurate and actionable insights — and that’s exactly what Acuity delivers.

Acuity provides a wealth of instructional content across a variety of subjects and grade levels.

Acuity leads the market with time-tested and reliable items and tests, trusted by thousands of districts nationwide.

Acuity’s intuitive user interface can be utilized to quickly and easily create new items and assessments

Acuity features both high-level reports as well as granular reports down to the student level, illustrating growth over time.

Learn more today about how Acuity can empower better predictive assessments, more actionable insights and improved personalized instruction.

Learn more about how Acuity and your education partners at McGraw-Hill Education can help you improve student achievement at your school.

Visit AcuityCCR.com or Call (800) 338-3987 to schedule a demonstration.

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“Acuity provides immediate feedback on how our students are doing, and teachers can make informed decisions on what to do with their instruction immediately.”

John FriedenPrincipal, Rock Island, IL

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