What Sets Lesson Assessments Apart

Benefits for Students

A well-developed assessment showcases what a student knows and understands, directing teachers to the next step for instruction. You could argue that assessment is a critical part of a quality instructional program. Not only do you want your students to know about teaching and learning, you want them to understand what goes into a quality assessment.

Our new Educators Rising Lesson Assessments are designed to give students specific feedback on their performance, including details about the type of distractors that are used with each question after the students complete the assessment! This is all delivered in an online, easily-navigable platform that students access after signing into our Membership platform. Student feedback also has teachers covered by providing answer rationales that students can review once their assessment has been graded. Controlled beta testing of our product with real students and teachers allowed us to custom tailor the solution based on feedback to address both educator and student needs.

Benefits for Teachers

We know that the innovations teachers care most about are those that help with their efficiency, and having an entire curriculum’s lessons available with matched assessments takes a huge burden off a teacher’s rotating to-do list. Starting July 1, 2024, we will have the Year 1 (Units 1-5) of the Educators Rising Curriculum covered in the new assessments platform and will have Year 2 (Units 6-10) available soon!.

While short-response questions must be reviewed by teachers, the platform includes both a 4- and 6-point rubric for each question, helping to simplify the grading process.

While no single assessment is perfect, our new platform offers questions with varying degrees of difficulty or rigor applied, using Webb’s Depth of Knowledge (DOK) as the framework. This means that our assessments do not just check for surface knowledge; they take learning next-level by including questions that require students to think more deeply about the covered content.

When combined with the assessment of teaching opportunities in your school, the platform provides a well-rounded assessment strategy that’s aligned with our curriculum and that well-prepares students for a variety of careers in the education sector.