Scantron
Corporation
A Harland Company
Matthew Busser, Account Executive
Scantron Corporation, A Harland Company
34 Parker,
Irvine, CA. 92618-1604
Phone: 800-722-6876; Fax: 619-615-0516
Email: matthew_busser@scantron.com
Web: www.scantron.com
Scantron Corporation (www.scantron.com) is headquartered
in Irvine, Calif., and is a wholly owned subsidiary
of Atlanta-based John H. Harland Company (NYSE:JH).
Scantron is a leading provider of software services
and systems for the collection, management and
interpretation of data to the educational, financial
and commercial markets. The company has approximately
700 employees worldwide and annual revenues exceeding
$100 million.
Atlanta-based John H. Harland Company (NYSE: JH)
(www.harland.net) is a leading provider of software
and printed products to the financial and educational
markets. Harland Financial Solutions (www.harlandfinancialsolutions.com)
supplies software and services, including customer
relationship management, deposit and loan origination,
host processing and mortgage services to thousands
of financial institutions of all sizes. Harland’s
printed products offerings include checks, direct
marketing and financial forms.
A Standards-based Adaptive Measurement Designed to
Assess and Track the Academic Growth of Each Student,
Class, and School.
The PERFORMANCE Series Internet
delivered assessment is a Standards-based Adaptive
Measurement–a
computer adaptive assessment modified to measure
the different academic strands of individual state
standards. Its goal is to give immediate diagnostic
information to each teacher, including learning objectives
a student has not completed, groupings of students
by ability, and the academic gains made by individual
and groups of students. Additionally, the administration
can access the scores for the entire district as
well as each school, with full desegregation abilities.
Internet based and economically priced, this assessment
system will change the way you and your students
think of testing.
- Since Performance Series assessments are entirely
web-based, they do not require extra hardware or
software.
- The only thing you need in order to test
students is a computer with Internet access.
- Traditional tests can take weeks or months to
return results for use in the classroom.
- Performance
Series assessments are on the web, so educators
can view the results
immediately. This allows a student to be placed accurately right away.
- Because it is Internet-based, we are able to
offer this assessment at a fraction of the cost
of traditional
placement tests.
- Find out how it works and what
the Internet requirements are.
The Performance Series is a Standards-based Adaptive
Measurement (SAM) that utilizes an innovative computer-adaptive,
Internet based model to target the instructional
level of each student by altering question difficulty
based on previous answers. Once the test has been
completed, the results are immediately available,
providing an accurate evaluation of the student's
abilities.
- SAM adapts to the student's instructional level,
alleviating continued rounds of questions that
are too easy or too difficult. SAM accurately places
each student at his/her appropriate instructional
level (grades 2-12).
- SAM is research-based, ensuring
the reliability and validity of the test to
accurately place each student.
- SAM reports are immediately available online
after a student takes the test, since the test
is Internet based. Levels of reports range from
individual
student's performance through district-wide results, with demographic and
group filtering.
- SAM tracks students using
a consistent scale as they move from one school
to the next, and measures
academic
gains over one year or across multiple
years.
In addition, groups can be established (i.e. Title I, Free & Reduced
Lunch, After School, Open Court, etc.) to place students and track academic
gains
over time.
Since Performance Assessment Series is an Internet-based
application, the system requires schools to have
solid Internet connection. Typically, this means
a T1, DSL line or something equivalent. The stronger
the connection to the Internet the schools have,
the more students can use the system at the same
time.
Each student requires about 1KB/Sec (10Kb/Sec) of
bandwidth to test. So a full T1 line can support
about 150 students testing simultaneously. Fractional
T1 lines can range from 7 simultaneous students to
120 depending on the speed. Schools that share a
single phone modem for all Internet activity are
not suitable for more than a few students at a time.
Every Macintosh or Windows computer to be used for
testing must be connected to the Internet and must
have one of the Internet browsers listed below.
Here are the guidelines:
- A solid Internet connection, such as a T1 line,
DSL, etc.
Internet Explorer(version 4.01 or newer) or
Netscape Navigator (version 4.x, but currently not 6.x or 7.x)*
- A Windows
PC (Pentium 16MB RAM) or a Power Macintosh (24MB RAM)
We reserve the right to increase the computer requirements
for all new revisions.
* Other technical requirements: JavaScript and cookies
must be enabled (default browser option). Computer
must display at least 256 colors and have a minimum
640 by 480 resolution screen. Some administration
features require a more recent browser.
Scantron Performance Series™ Press
Release
Scantron’s Performance Series™ Approved
by California Department of Education For Assessment
in Alternative Schools
IRVINE, Calif. — June 2, 2003 — Meeting
the stiff accountability requirements of the No Child
Left Behind Act of 2001 is important, but for some
California schools having several options for measuring
achievement is paramount to their success. Scantron,
a leading provider of education testing and assessment
tools for 31 years, today announced that Performance
Series™, its computer-adaptive online assessment
program, is one of eight tests recently approved
by the California Department of Education (CDE) to
be used for assessment in the Alternative Schools
Accountability Model (ASAM). Evaluations were conducted
on more than 30 computer-based assessments and pencil
and paper tests. Please click here for link to complete
press release: http://www.scantron.com/news/press_060203.asp
Use Skills Connection in conjunction with Classroom
Wizard for an overall assessment solution that provides
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