Benchmark Exams - Administrators Guide

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The Riverside Publishing Company 3800 Golf Road, Suite 100 Rolling Meadows, IL 60008 Tel 1.800.323.9540 Option 4 www.edusoft.com contents Table of Contents Chapter 1 Introducing Edusoft Benchmark Exams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 About Assessments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 About administering and grading assessments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Saving and Sharing Reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 About Reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 About Item Analysis and Item Response reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 About Intervention Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 About Instructional Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Chapter 2 Saving and Sharing Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 About the Benchmark Reports Locker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Setting up and managing your Reports Locker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Creating a folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Managing folders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Archiving a folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Restoring an archived folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Working with reports and report options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Viewing report details. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Viewing a report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Viewing report options details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Moving a report to a different folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Deleting a scheduled report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Chapter 3 Creating Benchmark Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 About Benchmark reporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 About Performance Band reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24Class List reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 About Student Performance reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26School Comparison reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Creating a Performance Band report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Contents iii Benchmark Exams Creating a Class List report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Creating a Student Performance report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Creating a School Comparison report set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Viewing a School Comparison report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Managing report sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Scheduling and sharing a report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Editing a scheduled report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Working with report options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Saving report options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Editing re . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Changing report options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Chapter 4 Using the Edusoft Report Builder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 About Report Builder reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 About creating Report Builder reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Getting a Quick Report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Creating a progress style report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Creating a comparison style report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Creating a report for individual students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Customizing a report in Report Builder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Selecting a roster and saving a report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Chapter 5 Analyzing Assessment Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 About Item Analysis reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Selecting items for analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Viewing and interpreting Item Analysis reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Changing item grouping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Sorting item columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Changing the display of answer breakdown data. . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Drilling down to student lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 About Item Response reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Creating an Item Response report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Chapter 6 Defining Intervention Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 About intervention groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Defining an intervention group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Selecting intervention criteria for one exam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Selecting ntion criteria for two exams . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Viewing the intervention group page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Refining membership in an intervention group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 iv Contents Administrator’s Guide Creating a custom group from an intervention group. . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Chapter 7 Generating Instructional Worksheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 About creating instructional worksheets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Instructional Tool has a new look . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Creating instructional worksheets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Starting a worksheet and selecting a worksheet type . . . . . . . . . . 99 Selecting a set of students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Selecting test scores to base worksheets on . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Selecting standards from selected exams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Selecting worksheet contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Reviewing and customizing worksheets . .