Achievement and Performance Series
Scantron Corp. (www.scantron.com) 
has recently integrated itsWeb-based Achievement and Performance Series products to forma complete solution that will help educators easily manage their benchmarktests, as wellas their summativeand formativeassessments. Theintegrated solutionallows schoolsto use standards basedPerformanceSeries tests to diagnosticallymeasurestudents at thebeginning of the year, continually monitor their progress by developingand administering online or paper-based tests to them, andthen use Achievement Series to produce standards-based reports.Series can also aggregate and disaggregate the data collected in anumber of different factors so the entire educational community canstay informed. Complete solution cost: about $15 per student a year.
This article originally appeared in the 09/01/2005 issue of THE Journal.