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Race to the Top With TestWiz!
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On 8/24/2010, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced the Phase 2 Race to the Top winners. The 10 winning applicants include: the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, and Rhode Island.
| Phase 2 Grantee | Budget Not to Exceed ... |
| Massachusetts | $250,000,000 |
| New York | $700,000,000 |
| Hawaii | $75,000,000 |
| Florida | $700,000,000 |
| Rhode Island | $75,000,000 |
| District of Columbia | $75,000,000 |
| Maryland | $250,000,000 |
| Georgia | $400,000,000 |
| North Carolina | $400,000,000 |
| Ohio | $400,000,000 |
Source: Ed.gov 8/24/2010 RttT Press Release
Contratulations to the Awardees!Key Objectives of Race to the Top and How TestWiz Supports Them:
Adopting standards and assessments that prepare students to succeed in college and the workplace and to compete in the global economy;
- TestWiz allows you to align test items to the National Core Learning Standards, as well as to your own state's standards. That helps ensure that your assessments meet the new national standards and also your state's standards.
- You can use NWEA's Formative Assessment Item Bank to create your assessments.
Building data systems that measure student growth and success, and inform teachers and principals about how they can improve instruction;
- TestWiz can process, score, and report on local formative assessments.
- Reporting is web-based.
- The underlying database makes longitudinal views of assessment results possible.
- View results by individual student, class, school, district, demographic, and performance level.
Recruiting, developing, rewarding, and retaining effective teachers and principals, especially where they are needed most; and
- Administrators can easily look at trends by classroom teacher or building.
Turning around our lowest-achieving schools.*
- A key to targeting instruction is providing teachers with frequent and detailed information on how their students are performing
- Student assessment data can easily be accessed by all assigned teachers working with a student.
- TestWiz supports a multi-tiered intervention model.
TestWiz completely supports the
Race to the Top Initiative: |
TestWiz is web-based software that addresses the need to make sense of assessment data. It works well for identifying student, group, and curriculum areas that require intervention. It comes with an underlying database that makes it possible to track progress over time and to view multiple assessment results on a single report.
Students’ demographics and test results are stored on a secure server hosted by dataMetrics Software. All data transfer to and from the server is encrypted. TestWiz supports virtually any achievement assessment and provides users with the advantage of a single tool to analyze all tests.
*Source & For More Information on Race to the Top:
http://www.ed.gov/programs/racetothetop/index.html