Pearson announced on October 21, 2008, the release of Stanford 10 Online, a multiple-choice assessment to assess student achievement in real-time for grades three through 12.
The Stanford Achievement Test series has served as the leading standard in achievement testing for more than 80 years.
The online version allows for automated capture of student responses and real-time reporting and scoring, providing immediate reliable data to evaluate student performance and to plan effective instruction.
Educators can more easily obtain data to evaluate progress toward meeting state and other educational standards.
Parents can access PDF reports that include where opportunities for improvement exist.
“The beauty of Stanford 10 Online is that it requires no physical commitment from school administrators or staff to store, secure, distribute, organize, or ship thousands of booklets and answer documents,” said Deloris Flint, Director of Products, Pearson.
“Everything is stored on secure Pearson servers, easily accessible to authorized district users anytime, thereby saving school districts significant overhead costs as well as time in test administration.”
Included with each assessment is a practice test, online tools, and directions for administration.
Stanford 10 Online offers the following special features:
Testing battery that includes reading, language, spelling, mathematics, science, and social studies for grades 3-12.
Immediate scoring.
Proctoring that allows a teacher or proctor to always know and follow the progress of each student as he or she completes the test.
Generates reports at the student and group (group, class, school, district) levels and as a master test list of results.
Online web-based testing platform requiring minimal bandwidth.
Delivery via an Application Service Provider (ASP) model requiring no additional software or hardware installation.
Secure browser feature ensuring security of test and student data.
Clean user interface and design.
Kudos, Pearson, for this online release. It appears to serve as an appropriate real-time student learning aide currently unavailable in other ways. Parents and teachers should find this a valuable support for increasing student learning rates and decreasing student learning losses.
This could be of great benefit to students, especially in the lower grades who are not already used to working through the written, paper and pencil (number 2!) tests. Technology is increasing daily and we are incorporating it constantly into our schools as fast as we can…and as fast and money will allow. This provides another way to use technology to our advantage by recording essentially the test-takers every move. We can see which problems he/she spends the most time on, how quickly they answer questions right or wrong, and even if they struggle between two answers (by clicking back and forth changing their answer). I am not usually one for change, and I do prefer to take tests by hand, but I actually agree with the benefits of the Stanford 10 Online Test. Thank you for introducing and sharing this with me!
Hi, S Rhodes. Glad to read your comment. I’ve been thinking about it since it posted. Using online testing in real-time seems to me a logical use of a learner’s efforts. The Stanford 10 offers the kind of feedback a psychometrist shouldl provide as well as external validity checks for assessments conducted by classroom teachers. I wonder how many teachers use the Stan10?