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Success Story: Cook County Schools

Check out our latest DRC BEACON Success Story featuring Cook County Schools!

Testlets Are Powerful Tools for Formative Instructional Practice

Testlets can be selected by educators to assess specific content or all content in a course. Assessing a single reporting category provides focused information on content just presented or to understand the best path in lesson design and delivery. Used…

07 Dec

What Is a CAT Assessment? Why Do You Care?

A computer-adaptive test (CAT) provides questions selected dynamically based on a student’s previous responses. Computer-adaptive assessment maximizes time investment by minimizing testing time and pinpointing student learning quickly. Test difficulty that is tailored to each individual student means reducing testing…

29 Nov

GEORGIA FIELD TEST PARTICIPANTS NEEDED FOR NEW DRC BEACON ASSESSMENTS

DRC BEACON is expanding to include grades K–2 and high school courses, and we need your help! DRC is inviting Georgia districts to participate in the upcoming K–2 and high school Algebra field test and related test development activities. The…

29 Nov

UPDATED! USING DRC BEACON TO PREDICT GEORGIA MILESTONES ACHIEVEMENT IN 2023/2024

An updated guidance document is available to help Georgia educators predict student performance on the summative Georgia Milestones assessment using DRC BEACON data in the 2023/2024 school year.

12 Oct

DRC BEACON Now Reports MetaMetrics’ Lexile and Quantile Measures

Leaders in educational assessment and measurement, Data Recognition Corporation (DRC) and MetaMetrics®, announce the expansion of their partnership to report MetaMetrics’ Lexile® reading and Quantile® measures from DRC BEACON, an interim assessment for grades 3–8. MINNEAPOLIS and DURHAM, N.C., September…

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