Assessment
Holistic educational improvement starts with meaningful assessments. Cognia works with education agencies to deliver reliable assessment solutions and provide unsurpassed support.
Sound and intentional assessments to grow student learning
Large-scale impact and efficiency
Cognia’s approach to large-scale summative assessment emphasizes three key elements: principled design, purposeful collaboration, and meaningful data.
Principled design approach
Our principled design approach helps educators and administrators pinpoint understanding, determine progress, and guide systems towards improved learning. This begins with clear and consistent identification of the intended purpose and use of the assessment. Cognia prioritizes an early understanding and continuous evaluation of score interpretations and uses (SIUs) as the north star for assessment design and delivery. We open our work up to third-party review for content development and psychometrics for confirmation, evaluation, and adherence to federal peer review and high quality criteria for assessments.
Collaboration and customization
Partnership is at the heart of all Cognia services. Cognia’s commitment to developing customized assessment solutions aligned to your state standards is reinforced through continuous collaboration with a variety of local stakeholder groups as well as diverse teams within Cognia.
Meaningful data
Summative assessment scores provide an important and necessary longitudinal and systemic view of student learning across a state. With a high degree of stability and consistency, summative data provides reliable and valid information regarding learner readiness that may be used to monitor trends, inform programmatic decision-making, and facilitate research and policy development.
Timely reporting
To ensure assessment results are sound and aligned to intended purpose, Cognia’s advanced technology and rich experience drive innovation in our psychometrics and reporting teams. The Measurement Portal brings content, measurement, and data experts together to ensure quality and accuracy of the results.
Putting data to work
To maximize meaning and purpose, Cognia assessment services are bolstered by professional learning opportunities. Asynchronous learning in the Cognia Learning Community conveniently supports assessment literacy, while in-person professional learning enhances the understanding of assessment outcomes and appropriate uses.
Additionally, dynamic reports and analytics tools provide leaders and educators greater insights into learning outcomes and trends in performance.
Cognia’s multi-state alternate assessment consortium has led the way in passing federal peer review, and the program has won awards for its leading technical report design.
With forty years delivering assessment solutions, our impact is far-reaching
Balance and meaning
Understanding how different types of assessment work together in a balanced system helps education leaders and teams use assessment options effectively. We’ve worked with educators around the world to shed light on the sometimes mysterious world of assessment. Multiple components serve different purposes at different times. Use this infographic to establish a common understanding among your team, paving the way for productive discussions.
