Nine round two finalists eligible to apply for funding to further K-12 reform and STEM "Starting this week, Arizona, California, Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina can apply for a share of the $200 million Race to the Top...

Race to the Top’s accountability requirements mandate that teacher and school leader effectiveness must be monitored via annual performance evaluations. Some states have clarified what measures can be used, and others are in the process of defining them. But whether your...

"Candidates to teach elementary school in Massachusetts will now need to pass both a general knowledge test and a math proficiency test to earn their license, even though 3 out of 4 failed the new math section when the test was given for the first time in March. 'To raise...

Certica Solutions announced today that its TestWiz™ student assessment suite now provides functionality to create and administer assessments online, and to analyze those results independently or with other assessment results. The introduction of online assessment,...

Massachusetts Software Companies Guide P-12 Education Performance and Accountability    WAKEFIELD, Mass., June 8, 2011 – Certica Solutions, a leading provider of P-12 education performance management solutions, today announced that it has acquired the business and assets...

“The U.S. Department of Education announced that $150 million will be available for the next round of Investing in Innovation (i3) grants to continue support for evidence-based practices in education. Individual school districts, groups of districts, and nonprofits in partnership...

“The U.S. Department of Education announced today that nine finalist states that did not win grants in the first two rounds of Race to the Top (RTT) will be eligible to compete for $200 million in additional funds this year. Applications will be available in the early fall.The...

“When Naomi Menikoff started dataMetrics Software in 1994, student assessment was not as critical an issue as it has become these days. Back then, many districts administered standardized, national tests. ‘The assessments took valuable time out of instruction, results did...

“Binghamton schools put data program to the test    Beth Bidwell calls the wall at Binghamton's Horace Mann Elementary School "the data wall."Posted on the wall in the room off the school's main office are computer printouts with data analyzing how students performed on...

Presentation by John Blegen, State Higher Education Executive Officers   April 7, 2011 WSWHE BOCES Datapalooza Conference in Glens Falls, NY   “The CEDS initiative is focused on gaining agreement on standards that will enable consistent data supporting learning pre-kindergarten...

In the April 2, 2011 edition of Tech & Learning, TestWiz is highlighted for one of our latest developments. Now, users who subscribe to TestWiz can align their test items to the Common Core Standards. To view the article on page 42: click here

Successful summer pilot program leads to implementation of online assessment analysis program throughout the district.   Binghamton City School District recently implemented TestWiz, a web-based testing analysis and reporting tool, to help expedite the student assessment...

Marcia Capone (Administrator for Assessment and CIO) and Carrie Buchman (Teacher on Special Assignment) discuss why they chose TestWiz as their assessment processing tool. Located in Western NY, Niagara Falls has over 7,200 students and is known throughout the state for...

Software now comes loaded with Common Core Standards for easy alignment to test questions.  dataMetrics Software is making it easy to align locally created test items to those standards. TestWiz now comes pre-loaded with the Common Core Standards in English and math.  The...

“New Education Dashboard Brings Greater Transparency to Data   At an education stakeholders’ meeting today, Secretary Duncan announced the launch of an online tool designed to help educators, parents, students, and policy makers “have a much more transparent conversation”...

TestWiz allows educators to take students’ results from DIBELS Next and input them into the online system for diagnosis. After they key-enter the scores, TestWiz lets them analyze the data, create multiple reports, and plan effective student interventions if necessary. ...

We are pleased to announce that the EdTech Show Daily has highlighted TestWiz on the front cover of their November 22nd publication. Through an interview with our President and owner, Naomi Menikoff, EdTech Show Daily inquires about how our tool pulls all assessment data...

TestWiz was just announced today as a recipient of District Administration’s (DA) 2010 Readers’ Choice Top 100 Products Award. Winners of the award were chosen based on the number of nominations entered from DA’s readership, which is made up of K–12 school superintendents...

Teachers and administrators can key enter, score, and report on popular and recently upgraded literacy assessment.dataMetrics Software has just added the DIBELS® Next assessment to the portfolio of assessments that can be processed by the TestWiz system. Created by...

“U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan today released the U.S. Department of Education's plan for transforming American education through technology, a process that would create an engaging state-of-the-art, cradle-to-college school system nationwide.  Administration Sets...

As of today, TestWiz users have even more flexibility when it comes to printing student answer docs and administering local tests. Prior to the latest update, when a new student had come into a class and needed to take an assessment on the same day, the teacher would have...

“The Common Core State Standards (CCS) Initiative is a state-led effort coordinated by the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO). The standards were developed in collaboration with teachers,...

“U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today recognized 304 schools as 2010 National Blue Ribbon Schools. Secretary Duncan was joined by Washington, D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty, D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee and George Washington University Provost Steven...

dataMetrics new ‘Correlation Report’ Shows Educators How Well Two Assessment Scores Correlate to Each Other   The new TestWiz report allows educators to select any two assessments, that were given to the same students and calculate the correlation between the two – in the...

“US awards $330 million to two coalitions of states to develop standardized testing as part of its Race to the Top competition; tests to employ computers to measure students' skills.  Put down your No. 2 pencils and get ready for the next generation of standardized tests,...