Browse Baseline Assessments in Toolkit
Increase Efficiency when Drafting Present Levels
TLDR
- “Browse Baseline Assessments” feature in Toolkit streamlines access to baseline assessments.
- Users can filter assessments by grade level, subject, category, and keywords.
- Previously, assessments were only accessible from drafted statements, causing inefficiency.
- This feature aligns with the “golden thread” philosophy, ensuring seamless instructional design.
- It improves teacher efficiency, helping them plan more effectively and ultimately benefit students.
A new feature that supports the development of present levels.
We are excited to announce a new feature in Toolkit that will enhance your ability to quickly surface baseline assessments. The Browse Baseline Assessments feature is located on the newly redesigned homepage and in the navigation bar. It allows users to search assessments using various filters connected to their students’ areas of need.
After landing on the Browse Baseline Assessments page from the navigation bar, the homepage button, or the present levels wizard, you can start searching for assessments using any combination of the following filters:
- Grade Level
- Subject
- Category
- Keyword Search
What was our motivation for building this new feature?
Prior to this release, the only place you could access baseline assessments was from within a present-level statement that had already been drafted. This presented the teacher with the problem of going through the entire process of searching and filtering for a statement that they were not sure would fit the student’s needs until after that work had been done.
Now teachers can access the assessments beforehand and then draft present levels statements. This is a more appropriate approach to doing the work of writing IEPs.
We often discuss the importance of the golden thread, this is the seamless connection between systematic instructional design, implementation, and assessment that yields positive outcomes for students. This feature is a direct byproduct of that philosophy. Ensuring that teachers can access baseline assessments at the correct point in their instructional design process means teachers can increase efficiency and ultimately become more effective planners.
How does this feature improve the experience of special educators?
Our goal of ensuring that ALL students succeed is contingent upon the success of the teacher during their instructional design process.
This feature helps to further minimize wasted time. Time is a teacher's most precious asset inside and outside of the classroom so exclusively browsing, saving, and printing assessments is a process that is much more efficient than drafting present levels statements.
Our commitment to special educators.
The introduction of the “Browse Baseline Assessments” feature in Toolkit represents a significant enhancement in our efforts to streamline the process of accessing and utilizing baseline assessments.
By enabling teachers to access assessments in advance of statement drafting, we embrace the “golden thread” philosophy, facilitating a seamless connection between instructional design, implementation, and assessment. This, in turn, empowers educators to work more efficiently, ultimately benefiting student success.
Our commitment to the success of all students is intrinsically tied to the success of teachers, and this feature represents a tangible step toward that goal.
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