Pearson Inform Basics

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Pearson Inform Basics
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Pearson Inform

• Will help with increasing pressure for state and
  federal requirements for accountability
• Can help educators
• Guide decisions for educating each student
• Determine areas of strengths and weakness
• Monitor student progress
• Target areas of need and remediation

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Logging In
First letter of first name, followed by last
name i.e. Bill Aten is baten
For this training it is charem (all lowercase).
You can (and should) change this at your next
login.
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District Home Page
This area is called the Dashboard, and appears
differs from district to district. The System
Administrator creates the appearance of the
dashboard.
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Report Library
Shared Library Contains list of reports that
have already been created. (click sign)
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Viewing a Report
By clicking on any of the Reports, they will be
brought up on your screen
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Report Library
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Clicking on any one of the student Name or Id
will bring up a screen that shows that students
profile.
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What Determines Mastery?

• In Inform, Mastery means that the student got
• 1 out of 1 correct
• 2 out of 2 correct
• 2 out of 3 correct
• 3 out of 4 correct
• 3 out of 5 correct
• for questions that assess a given Content
  Expectation on a designated MEAP test.

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What Determines Proficiency?

• A student whose Cut Score is either a Level 1 or
  Level 2 is considered Proficient
• Cut scores are determined by the MDE Office of
  Education Assessment Accountability, and
  basically represent the quartile ranges on a
  given test.
• Quartiles 1 and 2 are the cut scores that
  represent Proficiency Levels 1 2.
• Level 1 Exceeded Standards
• Level 2 - Met Standards

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Creating a Proficiency Query
Proficiency Profile is State Levels
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Creating a Concept Mastery Query
Sub Category is Concepts and Proficiency Profile
is Mastery
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Concept Mastery Report
GLCE Code and abbreviated description
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Drilling Deeper
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Students Name
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Individual Student Profile
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Instructional Help

• Clarification Documents
• MCTM http//www.mictm.org/
• Left side Grade Level Content Expectations
• Members Only section (talk to your administrator
  about an Institutional Membership)
• Released Items
• MDE website http//www.michigan.gov/mde/0,1607,7-1
  40-22709_31168_31355---,00.html
• Wayne RESA http//resa.net
• Under Hot Topics
• MEAP Tool-Kit
• Assessment Help
• MMLA http//mscenters.org
• Left Side - Michigan Mathematics Leadership
  Academy
• MMLA Mathematics Assessments