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Standards selector for assessments

and items within curriculum maps

Standards-alignment

Question types

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Schoology AMP

Standards selector for assessments

Provides the ability to customize/reand items
Yes, by question. This information
word standard in student friendly
can be passed into the Mastery
language
DOK coded in item banks, questions
area of Schoology as well.
are aligned in banks, must be tagged
Mastery reporting columns
for teacher or district-created items
(standards) can be re-ordered for
display
Computer scoring: Yes/No/T/F,
multiple choice, passage w/questions,
fill in the blank, ordering, matching,
Standard and several technology- categorizing - question types such as Standard and several technologygraphing not available for creation
enhanced question types
enhanced question types

Mastery Manager

Yes, by question

Standard and several

technology-enhanced
question types

Manual scoring: essay, performance

item
Question creation

Question/Item banks

Question creation available to

admin. and teacher teams or
individuals

Certica (formerly NWEA) and

Inspect item banks

Question creation available to admin.

and teacher teams or individuals
60,000+ items including techenhanced types such as graphing,
hotspots

Question creation available to

admin. and teacher teams or
individuals

Question creation available

to admin. and teacher
teams or individuals

information on options coming Q1

2017

Certica

Inspect item bank included in base

cost, others available
Grade cam (camera) available if
paper/pencil version give (question
type = multiple choice).
Admin. or designated role can make
common assessments available to
students (tracker in MasterConnectAssessment management:
speak) online. A drawback to this
Workflow for admin., teachers, system is the requirement that the
students
teacher have the correct tracker set
up or the test cannot be made
available for them. Additionally, the
progress display shows all
standards in the tracker rather than
the ones that have been assessed
to that point.

Students: start with a slider to predict

their result, can skip around, edit
responses, upon submit - system
Assessments are created
warns students of unfinished
and made available for
questions, confidence input is optional
teachers to administer.
for each item and is included in realIf a district-level staffer 'pushes' out
There is not integration
time monitoring for teacher, postthe assessment, can teachers
with Schoology available
assessment reflection tab for item by
control the availability (timing) and
(or any LMS). The
item reflection (unforced)
scoring of manual-scored items?
progress display includes
only the assessed
Teachers: real-time monitoring of
standards.
scores once students submit (as
others are still working)
Admin:

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Reporting/Analytics

Naiku
Includes a 'watch progress' report with
some live reporting during
assessment.

Schoology AMP

Mastery Manager

Results available for

district, building, teacher,
class

Can import demographic info from

SIS and include that in reporting. Can import demographic info from SIS
and include that in reporting - currently
Tracker displays all standards,
only available to admin-level users
including those not yet assessed.

Can import demographic

info from SIS and include
that in reporting

Reporting available by item or

standard for all users
yes, browser-based
Chromebook compatibility

yes, browser-based

Chromebook app that prevents other

interaction on the device, screenshots,
etc.

yes, browser-based

yes, browser-based

Account management

Uses Clever and Google

authentication to login

Uses Clever and Google

authentication to login

Access for all users is through

existing Schoology accounts

API integration (direct, no

third party)

Uses LTI

Assessments can be pushed out

by assessment teams into courses

None

Uses learning tools integration

(LTI), set up at the district-level, for
account access. To add a building
or district-level assessment (called
a benchmark assessment in
MasteryConnect), requires set up at
the district or building level, creation
of a test ID or linked external tool by
the teacher. If no linked external
tool created by teacher, the grade
will not pass into Schoology. The
Schoology content integration
steps involved are a bit technical for
the individual teacher.
Individual teachers can create
assignments connected to
MasteryConnect assessments.
Grades are passed into the
Schoology gradebook. There is
substantial overlap with the
Schoology Quiz/Assessment in this
scenario.

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Enable grading is checked for the
item within Schoology and fields
completed (manually).

Schoology gradebook
integration

Professional learning

Cost

Raw score can populate in

Schoology gradebook.
Standards/Mastery reporting will not
display in Schoology - requires
viewing on MasteryConnect
platform
Normally they use a train the trainer
model. They also provide digital
tutorials to help get users up and
running. PL packages are an
additional cost - mentioned $9,000.
$7/student for system, additional
$3/student for item banks

Naiku

Schoology AMP

Mastery Manager

Grades can be included in

Schoology gradebook, including
standards-alignment by item into
Mastery reporting

None

Assessment creation process is

similar to existing Schoology
test/quiz materials

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