The beginning of the school year is packed with opportunities to lay a strong foundation for the rest of the school year. Start the year off with InnerOrbit's phenomena-based assessments, baseline data, and more!
Here's how InnerOrbit can support your back-to-school plans:
Build a Diagnostic Assessment
Diagnostic assessments help educators identify strengths and gaps in scientific knowledge for a lesson, unit, or whole grade or course.
The easiest way to build a content diagnostic is with InnerOrbit's Diagnostic PreMades!
Build Unit Pre/Post Tests
If you want to see how students grow throughout a unit, pre and post tests are for you!
We recommend:
One Unit Pre-Test at the beginning of a unit and the SAME assessment as the Unit Post-Test at the end of a unit.
Include 1D, 2D, and 3D questions to provide data on background knowledge before a unit begins (with the 1D questions) AND will measure mastery at the end of the unit (with the 2D and 3D questions).
For novel sensemaking, use different phenomena in the post-test, but ensure the same number and rigor of questions per PE for accuracy in data comparison.
Gather Baseline Data with Inventories
Check out our Inventories, which are pre-packaged assessments from InnerOrbit's phenomena and 3D questions, to gather beginning of the year data!
Inventories assess all 3 Dimensions (DCI, CCC, and SEP) and cover an entire grade/course.
At the beginning of the year, you could...
Use your current grade level Inventory as a pre-assessment now, and then assign the same Inventory as a post-assessment later to see growth over time.
Use an Inventory from a prior grade band to gather foundational data of what you may need to lean into throughout the year.
To build with Inventories, you can "Use All Questions" (1st screenshot) or just pick and choose the questions you want (2nd screenshot):
Support Your Colleagues & Stakeholders
Check out the resources below to support your colleagues and student stakeholders with InnerOrbit:
Send these quick tutorials for colleagues to get the basics of InnerOrbit!
4 FREE training sessions about 3D assessment with InnerOrbit!
Everything you need to know about InnerOrbit on one-page!
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