Teaching · For Teachers

See every test the year holds, and what it costs in time.

Inventory screeners, interims, state tests and classroom tests in one table. The calendar totals the minutes per student, finds windows that collide and asks what each one is for.

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Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Or get it in the For Teachers toolkit, $79 for 72 items.

The assessment inventory

One calendar per grade or course and year. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · For Teachers$19 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
An inventory with testing hours per student, the share of instructional time, time by type, overlapping windows and the next window; CSV of the inventory rows.
Who it is for
Teachers, grade-level teams, school leaders and district assessment coordinators.
Format
Browser inventory. Saved calendars; printed with the summary or as a blank form; CSV of the rows; export and import a file.
Access
$19 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the For Teachers toolkit ($79) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The For Teachers space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
every test on one page, every minute counted
Drawn for this page. Seeing every assessment on one calendar is usually the first time a team sees how much time testing takes.

How to use it

  1. Start a calendar with a code and the as-of date.
  2. Enter instructional days and minutes a day.
  3. Add every assessment with its type, frequency, minutes and first window.
  4. Check the set for a stated use, turnaround and duplicate purpose.
  5. Print it for the team meeting and decide what to keep.

Build the calendar

Reading the inventory

Why count the minutes

Assessments are added one at a time and rarely removed. Counting the minutes for one student across a year, and asking what decision each result informs, is how teams find tests to cut or combine.

Types, briefly

A screener checks everyone for risk; a diagnostic looks closely at one student’s skills; an interim or benchmark tracks the group during the year; progress monitoring checks students in intervention every week or two; a state test is the yearly accountability measure.

What this is not

A judgment of any one test. Counts come from the minutes you enter.

Sources

  1. Achieve (2014). Student Assessment Inventory for School Districts: purpose, use and time for each assessment.
  2. Hart, R., Casserly, M., et al. (2015). Student Testing in America’s Great City Schools: An Inventory and Preliminary Analysis. Council of the Great City Schools.
  3. Center on Multi-Tiered System of Supports (American Institutes for Research): screening and progress monitoring.
  4. AERA, APA, & NCME (2014). Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing: an assessment’s use determines what evidence it needs.

The example calendar is made up. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.