More reading diagnostics ready

Today we are releasing another set of reading diagnostic tests. We are releasing the Middle School Comprehension 2 tests. This adds to our eloementary and middle school Comprehension 1 tests and elementary school Comprehension 2 tests.

The Comprehension 1 tests cover:

Author’s Purpose, Point of View, and Fact/Opinion
Literal Comprehension
Summarize
Cause and Effect
Graphic Organizers and Story Sequence

The Comprehension 2 tests cover:

Main Ideas
Drawing Conclusions, Make Inferences, and Make Predictions
Maps, Charts, and Diagrams
Compare and Contrast
Vocabulary in Context

In the upcoming weeks we will be releasing more diagnostics in Phonics and Grammar, Grammar, and Literary Analysis. Check back here for updates.

On the road again

The PASeries team is on the road again. See us this weekend at the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) conference in Anaheim CA. We will be in booths 709 and 711 in the Anaheim convention center.

This is a great opportunity to learn more about PASeries and have your questions answered by a member of our formative assessment team.

PASeries presentations will be held:

Saturday, March 17 at 2:00PM
Sunday, March 18 at 2:00PM
Monday, March 19 at 1:00PM

This will be a great conference with nearly 600 sessions planned. And with Disneyland right around the corner this conference will truly have something for everyone (even the kids).

The presentations will be held in the booths so be sure to stop by.

Two more states aligned

In order to avoid cabin fever, the snow-bound PASeries team has been busy aligning PASeries Mathematics to individual state standards. Now, PASeries Mathematics is aligned to the state standards in Michigan and Maryland.

This brings the total number of states currently aligned to 21 and we have many more coming soon.

Here are some fun education-related facts about Michigan and Maryland:

Did you know that Michigan was the first state to guarantee every child the right to tax-paid high school education? For more fun factoids on Michigan look here.

Maryland is the home of the first school in the US; the King Williams School opened in 1696. More Maryland facts are located here.

As always, the alignment guides can be found in the State Alignment Guides area of the PASeries Resource Library.