ANet interim assessments help teachers understand what students know and are able to do with respect to the common core standards. ANet assessment questions align to the standards and format of state summative assessments (MCAS). This helps teachers understand the standards students are mastering and the ones they aren’t. They go well beyond right and wrong—they provide information about which students are succeeding or struggling, with what, and why. ANet reports provide timely, actionable, and student-specific data. These specific, targeted data are powerful tools teachers can use to help and empower each of their students. In other words, these are assessments for learning, not assessments of learning. Students in grades 2-8, enrolled at schools that have selected to use ANet interim assessments, are tested four times throughout the school year.
Additional information regarding ANet may be found at http://www.achievementnetwork.org/.
