Our highest-quality assessment content can be leveraged in any of your custom assessments to yield valuable, trustworthy data appropriate for driving decisions.
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A customized standards-aligned assessment platform for large districts
SchoolCity already partners with four of the largest districts in the US to achieve their “just right” standards-aligned assessment solution Schedule a consultation today to start discussing yours.
Create
Online testing tools, reporting capabilities, online accommodations, scoring mechanisms, and beyond—all to your specifications
Customize
Benefit from a bank of over 80,000 highest-quality, standards- and DOK-aligned assessment items across core subjects.
Target
Drive targeted classroom and district improvements with reports aligned to your key questions.
Simplify
Save student and teacher time with a single platform for standards-aligned classroom formative, benchmark/common formative, and summative assessments.
Transform your district’s assessment experience for all stakeholders
Unlock a standards-aligned assessment platform that meets the unique needs of a large district—and specific needs of your team
Design an assessment solution unlike any other. Guide significant structural changes to your platform’s assessment capabilities, online testing tools, student accommodations, and more, so that every stakeholder is able to use data to improve instruction and standards proficiency.
Streamline and advance data-based conversations
Bypass reports that don’t quite fit your needs. Quickly access data-driven insights with custom-built reports to answer your specific questions about student learning, progress, and standards proficiency.
Demystify formative feedback
Take the heavy lifting out of high-impact feedback. Know exactly what’s causing students to struggle and address learning disconnects in the moment with built-in distractor rationales.
Engage students as drivers of their own learning
Develop the right student-friendly reports to help learners understand their own strengths and needs. Offer flexible ways to demonstrate standards proficiency with performance-based assessments.
A standards-aligned assessment platform designed with your district in mind
Each district needs the ability to create and administer homegrown standards-based assessments, author items, and design custom reports. These needs are all supported by DnA, our assessment creation and administration platform.
However, some districts seek to invest in significant, platform-level customizations to truly achieve their vision for assessment creation, administration, and reporting. That’s where SchoolCity comes in. Start with the current platform as a base, and partner with our team to design and implement structural changes around online testing tools, accommodations, item types, and more.
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How does SchoolCity work?
How Renaissance's standards-aligned assessment platform works
1
Consult
Partner with our team to create a strategy for meeting your unique assessment creation, administration, and reporting needs.
2
Assess
Administer assessments via paper/pencil, online, or a combination, leveraging any custom-built online testing tools and test accommodations. Scan paper/pencil assessments for instant grading.
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Report
Expedite data-driven decisions with customized reports by assessment, standard, item, multiple measures, and others to immediately surface insights about curriculum, instruction, student supports, equity, and more.
4
Move learning forward
Confidently take the right next steps to advance student learning and accelerate district-wide standards proficiency.
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SchoolCity assessment types
An in-depth look at SchoolCity Assessments
With a range of measures at your disposal—including performance-based assessments and even surveys—your team is able to monitor learning and mastery across the many ways students may demonstrate standards proficiency.
Item Bank Assessments
Assessments that can incorporate any of our 19+ different item types—including TEIs such as hot spot and graphing—or custom-built item types. Benefit from a bank of over 80,000 items to address the breadth and depth of each standard at the right DOK and level of rigor.
Answer Key Only Assessments
Existing assessments can be uploaded via PDF to avoid recreating them in SchoolCity, while also receiving the in-depth standards-based reporting that SchoolCity provides.
Express Assessments
Quickly create a paper/pencil multiple choice assessment and scan results for instant grading for a quick, formative check on student learning.
Performance-Based Assessments
Enable online scoring of offline performance assessments, such as projects and essays. Flexible grading and scoring options and alignment to standards allow for in-depth reporting.
Surveys
Gather data around social-emotional learning, school climate and culture, perceptions, and well-being from students and parents.
Get standards-aligned data you can trust with Inspect
Combining the power of SchoolCity with Inspect content
Our Inspect assessment content provides standards-aligned items across ELA, math, science (NGSS, Georgia, and Virginia), and history. When used with SchoolCity, you can feel confident that your custom assessments are gleaning data that truly help improve decisions.
Quality content for your custom assessments
Highest-quality standards-aligned content
Our items are created by content experts who ensure that content is accurately aligned, free of bias and sensitivity concerns, and yields results that educators can use to drive instruction forward.
All of our item bank content undergoes a continuous evaluation process that uses psychometric analysis to ensure items are performing as expected.
Assessment content stats
A snapshot of inspect
When it comes to high-quality assessment content, special care should be taken to ensure each item aligns to the content expectations of the standard. In order to truly assess mastery, there must also be enough items to assess student understanding in multiple ways across a range of cognitive complexities and item types. Inspect items fit the bill.
70,000+*
ELA and math items
70,000+ ELA and math items
70,000+ ELA and math items with rich metadata—including DOK, passage Lexile®, and other qualitative measures of text complexity—supplying ample content for classroom and district assessments.
*Alignments and counts vary by state
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item types
22 item types
22 item types—including technology-enhanced items (TEIs)—to authentically measure learning and prepare students for high stakes exams:
- Constructed Response
- Evidence Based Selected Response (EBSR)
- Explicit Constructed Response
- Gap Math
- Graphic Gap Match
- Graphing Lines
- Graphing Points
- Hot Spot
- Hot Text
- Inline Choice
- Inline Text Entry
- Matching Table
- Multiple Binary
- Multiple Choice
- Multiple Response
- Multi-Part
- Number Line
- Number Line Dot Plot
- Numerical Response
- Order Items
- Short Answer
- Writing Prompt
600+
prebuilt assessments
600+ prebuilt assessments
600+ prebuilt assessments aligned to your state’s academic standards, including:
- Broad Coverage
- Interims
- Comprehensives
- Cluster Quizzes
- ELPAC Mirrors
- Early Literacy Early Numeracy Assessments
- Performance Tasks (SBAC-like)
- K–1 Observational Assessments
- Scaffolded Performance Tasks
- SBAC Interim Block Mirrors/Focused Interim Assessments
3,200+
K–12 NGSS items
3,200+ K–12 NGSS items
3,200+ K–12 NGSS items across the three dimensions of NGSS and associated CCSS standards (part of Inspect Premium).
Real stories from educators
Success stories from districts like yours
Houston ISD unlocks assessment as learning
In Texas’ largest school district, a collaborative partnership and “just right” assessments have elevated data-driven instruction.
Security and privacy
As of December 2022, SchoolCity has received a SOC2 report from an AICPA auditor.
We researched various platforms to see what was cutting-edge, and what appeared to be next-level. SchoolCity stood out because their team understands that urban districts need customization. It was at that point that we began our beautiful partnership with SchoolCity, and they have not failed us.
Betty Garcia-Hill • Formative Assessment Manager, Houston Independent School District (HISD)
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A Renaissance representative can provide you with a more detailed understanding of SchoolCity and help you decide if it’s the right tool for you and your students.
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