White Papers: What the Research Says

Improving learning through formative assessment depends on three key factors:

• the provision of effective feedback to students
• the active involvement of students in their own learning
• adjusting teaching to take into account the results of assessment

Read "Using Assessment to Improve Learning"

For educators and administrators to receive the highest quality data from assessments, the assessments must be scientifically based. Only then can they gain an accurate picture of stduent achievement with actionable results.

Read "Achieving Student Progress with Scientific Based Formative Assessment"

No Child Left Behind demands that teachers track student performance and adapt instruction to students' individual needs.

Read "Now Entering the Era of Assessment"

The Knowledge Analysis Technologies (KAT) engine is an integrated set of text processing tools that can be applied to diverse applications—from essay grading to meaning-based search across many languages.

Read "Knowledge Analysis Technologies (KAT) Engine: Overview"

The correlation and agreement rates of the scores produced by the KAT engine are better the more expert and reliable the human scores.

Read "The Reliability and Validity of the KAT Engine"