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Instructional Guide v9 for Insight 360™

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INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................. 1 State Standards’-Aligned Products .................................................................................... 1

Topic-Aligned Product ................................................................................................... 2

Seamlessly Integrated with eInstruction Products .................................................................. 2

GETTING STARTED .......................................................................................... 4 Not Your Typical Item Banks ........................................................................................... 4

Variety of Question Types .............................................................................................. 4

More Than Just Questions and Answers ............................................................................... 5

Immediate Feedback and Remediation for Students ............................................................... 6

The Power of Dynamic Questions ...................................................................................... 6

Literary and Informational Reading Passages ........................................................................ 7

TEST LAYOUT AND DELIVERY OPTIONS ................................................................. 8 Customizing the Appearance of a Test ............................................................................... 8

Selecting a Test Delivery Method ...................................................................................... 9

Self-Paced Tests in Insight 360™ ..................................................................................... 10

Ask Questions During Instruction with Insight 360™ .............................................................. 10

Paper Tests .............................................................................................................. 10

Local Area Network (LAN) Tests ..................................................................................... 11

HTML Tests and Study Guides ........................................................................................ 12

REPORTS ..................................................................................................... 13 ExamView® Test Manager Reports .................................................................................. 13

Insight 360™ Reports ................................................................................................... 13

TECHNICAL RESOURCES AND SUPPORT ................................................................ 14

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Instructional Guide v9 1

INTRODUCTION

The ExamView® Learning Series v9 (Learning Series) is a collection of more than 15,600 unique, high-quality assessment questions (with approximately 400,000 unique question variations in math, science, and social studies when using dynamic content) in the disciplines of English language arts, reading, math, science, and social studies. With questions specifically aligned to multiple states’ standards and Common Core State Standards, the Learning Series enables you to create quality formative assessments and activities for your students in all phases of the learning cycle.

State Standards’-Aligned Products The Learning Series is available as a state standards’-aligned product for these states:

AL AZ AR CA CO CT FL GA

ID IL IN IA KS KY LA MD

MA MI MN MS MO MT NE NV

NJ NM NY NC OH OK OR PA

SC TN TX VA WA WV WI WY

Each Learning Series state product includes the following assessment content:

State standards’-aligned content offering 12,121 assessment items for

English language arts, reading, math, science, and social studies aligned to state standards. Note: The state standards’-aligned content is included in the folders that begin with the two-letter state abbreviation.

Note for the TX product: The TX standards’-aligned content offers 13,546 assessment items for English language arts, reading, math, science, and social studies aligned to state standards. The standards’-aligned content is included in the folders that begin with TX.

Common Core content offering 12,174 English language arts, reading, and math assessment items aligned to the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Mathematics (2010). Note: The Common Core content is included in the folders that begin with CC.

Topic-Aligned content offering 15,646 assessment items for English language arts, reading, math, science, and social studies aligned to core curriculum topics (i.e., no state standards). Note: The Topic-Aligned content is included in the folders that begin with Gr. The Topic-Aligned content includes 1,525 new math items in the Gr X Math New folders where X represents a grade level (e.g., Gr 3 Math New_v9).

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Topic-Aligned Product The Learning Series Topic-Aligned product is aligned to core curriculum topics (i.e., no state standards) and available for these ten states:

AK DE

HI ME

NH ND

RI SD

UT VT

The Learning Series Topic-Aligned product includes the following assessment content: Topic-Aligned content offering 15,646 assessment items for English language arts,

reading, math, science, and social studies aligned to core curriculum topics (i.e., no state standards). Note: The Topic-Aligned content is included in the folders that begin with Gr. The Topic-Aligned content includes 1,525 new math items in the Gr X Math New folders where X represents a grade level (e.g., Gr 3 Math New_v9).

Common Core content offering 12,174 English language arts, reading, and math assessment items aligned to the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Mathematics (2010). Note: The Common Core content is included in the folders that begin with CC.

Seamlessly Integrated with eInstruction Products The Learning Series questions are created using the ExamView® Assessment Suite (ExamView®)—the leading classroom assessment tool on the market today. The Learning Series is designed to work seamlessly with eInstruction’s educational tools to provide flexibility in delivering assessments and to enhance your students’ classroom experience. For example, you can… Access ExamView® Test Generator to launch tests, quizzes, and worksheets from within

Insight™ 360. Insight 360™ is the first completely mobile system that integrates content with formative assessment, allowing educators to use a single device to facilitate, annotate, remediate, and track student progress. Educators use Mobi 360™ or Mobi 360™ for iPad app to manage their desktop, open their content (various formats and sources on the desktop/browser), launch assessments, annotate content, see real-time visuals, and receive reports—from absolutely anywhere in the room. Students use Spark 360™ or Pulse 360™ student response pads (clickers) to engage with lessons, answer questions, and receive instant feedback.

Conduct in-class review sessions and give quizzes and tests using the eInstruction® Classroom Performance System™ (CPS™) student response system. Our CPS™ student response devices work seamlessly with ExamView® and deliver real-time formative assessment and provide instant student-performance feedback so teachers know where students need extra attention at the moment of instruction.

Generate worksheets and homework assignments for student practice using ExamView®.

Administer local area network (LAN) tests using the ExamView® Test Player to automatically grade tests for you!

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Create a standards-aligned paper test using ExamView® and grade it automatically with plain-paper scanning (Windows only).

Access ExamView® from within Workspace™, our award-winning software used to create and assemble the interactive lesson content you control with the Mobi View™, Mobi™, and DualBoard™. Workspace’s open design allows you to incorporate and work with teaching materials in multiple formats from any source, including publishers’ ExamView® content, web-based content, and third-party curricula.

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GETTING STARTED

The remainder of this guide provides useful information to help you get the most out of the Learning Series questions. It describes various features of the Learning Series and how those features can help you assess, teach, and motivate your students. This guide does not provide detailed instructions on using Insight 360™ or ExamView® with which you can use the Learning Series. For specific instructions on how to use Insight 360™ or ExamView®, consult the user guide and help files that contain detailed, step-by-step instructions on how to use all aspects of the software program.

Not Your Typical Item Banks The Learning Series is much more than your typical item banks. Learning Series questions are high quality—which means you don't have to waste time reviewing them for content accuracy, age/grade appropriateness, grammatical accuracy, and clarity. The intent is not to “trick” students by supplying a lot of extraneous, irrelevant information, but rather to assess students’ ability to apply their knowledge to solve practical problems. Even the incorrect choices for multiple-choice questions have been carefully thought out and written to mirror common student mistakes. In addition, specific feedback and guidance are provided to help students avoid making these mistakes in the future. The Learning Series emphasizes critical thinking with questions that promote students' ability to correctly analyze situations and apply their knowledge to the world around them. As much as possible, the questions are presented in real-life contexts that incorporate cross-curricular subjects and contain accurate and timely data. Also, the questions contain illustrations, tables, graphs, charts, maps, and other visuals that provide both necessary and supplemental information for students to analyze and interpret. In addition to providing you with a host of high-quality questions, the Learning Series also takes advantage of many ExamView® features—giving you maximum flexibility to tailor your assessments to fit a variety of situations.

Variety of Question Types The Learning Series contains a variety of question types similar to those typically found on state and national high-stakes tests: Multiple choice

Numeric response with response grids (gridded response)

Completion

Short answer (short response)

Essay (extended response)

For added flexibility, most of the multiple choice questions are "bimodal." You can display bimodal questions as either multiple choice or short answer. When added to a test, bimodal questions display as multiple choice by default. With a single mouse click, you can toggle all

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of the multiple choice questions on a test to short answer, thus increasing the difficulty level by requiring students to show their work or explain their answers. Figure 1. Bimodal questions

More Than Just Questions and Answers Each Learning Series question includes comprehensive question support information: The Difficulty field contains the Bloom’s Taxonomy level and the Webb’s

Depth-of-Knowledge level to which the question is written.

The Reference field contains the context in which the question is presented, such as The Arts, Social Studies, Science, Health/Physical Education, Literature, Mathematics, Language Arts, or Workplace.

Note: Social Studies questions do not include Reference information.

The State Standard and Learning Objective fields display the state standard ID or the Common Core State Standards ID number (for standards’-aligned products) and corresponding standard text to which the question aligns.

Note: For states to which the Learning Series is not aligned, the State Standard field is empty. The Learning Objective field is populated with a nationally recognized academic standard to which the question aligns. The K-2 Reading and Math questions are aligned to core curriculum topics and the Common Core State Standards.

The Topic field contains the category in which the question falls, such as the subject strand or course.

The Keywords field contains significant words or key concepts associated with the question.

The Toggle Bimodal button in the toolbar lets you toggle between Multiple Choice and Short Answer.

The red dot next to a question indicates that the question is Bimodal.

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Why is the question support information so important? ExamView® allows you to search each of the question information fields, thus enabling you to customize your assessments. You can easily search for questions that match specific criteria, such as state standards or keywords. By doing so, you can quickly build pretests, worksheets, quizzes, exams, and high-stakes practice tests that focus on the content of your choice.

Immediate Feedback and Remediation for Students The Learning Series offers immediate instructional guidance to students. All multiple choice and bimodal questions include rationale—explanations, definitions, step-by-step examples, or calculations—to help students understand the concept being addressed. In addition, the answer choices for all multiple choice and bimodal questions contain links to specific feedback responses—positive feedback if the student selects the correct answer choice or a brief explanation or helpful hint if the student selects an incorrect answer choice.

The Power of Dynamic Questions The Learning Series includes dynamic questions in math, science, and social studies. Dynamic questions are programmed with algorithms that enable the questions to be instantly recalculated to form entirely new questions that assess the same concept. Each time you recalculate a dynamic question, the program displays different values for certain variables. Variables may include numbers, units of measure, tabular data, graphs, text strings, or answer choices. Figure 2. Dynamic questions

There are several applications for dynamic questions. To supplement in-class instruction, you can quickly display several variations of a single dynamic question to provide additional formative assessment and/or practice on a particular concept or academic standard. You can also easily print multiple versions of a test that assess the same material but with different values, making it impossible for students to copy from each other’s papers. Dynamic

The calculator icon next to a question indicates that the question is dynamic.

The Calculate Values button in the toolbar allows you to change the values for the selected dynamic question, a set of questions grouped in the same question type, or the entire test.

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questions also make it easy to build a virtually limitless number of unique worksheets from a single set of questions in a matter of seconds.

Literary and Informational Reading Passages The Learning Series provides interesting reading passages and related reading comprehension questions. Age-appropriate, cross-curricular reading selections embrace a wide variety of reading genres, including short stories, excerpts, poems, and original, fact-based passages. Passages are similar in length and complexity to those typically found on many states' high-stakes tests with questions designed to assess higher-order thinking skills. When you install the Learning Series reading questions, you also install all of the reading passages. The reading passages are stored as PDF files; you must use Adobe Acrobat® or Adobe Reader software to view and print the PDF files. You can download Adobe Reader at no cost from www.adobe.com. In addition to independent grade-level passages, grades 4 and above include passage pairs. Passage pairs are single PDF files that contain two passages that address a common topic. All passage pairs in the Learning Series include informational, or non-fiction, passages only. The most efficient way to view and/or print one or more reading passages is to refer to the All Gr x Reading Passages PDF files (where x is a grade level). To access these files, follow these steps: 1. Navigate to the Learning Series folder—if you installed the Learning Series at the default

location, the path will be c:\ExamView\Banks\Learning Series for Windows and Macintosh HD > ExamView Pro > Banks > Learning Series for Macintosh.

2. Select the desired PDF file (such as All Gr 4 Reading Passages). Figure 3. All Grade 4 Reading Passages PDF

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TEST LAYOUT AND DELIVERY OPTIONS

ExamView® includes a multitude of test layout and delivery options, which provide the flexibility to customize, administer, and score assessments in a combination of ways.

Customizing the Appearance of a Test As you select Learning Series questions for your assessment, ExamView® automatically builds your test. After you've finished selecting questions, you can customize the appearance of your test. ExamView® includes numerous features to customize the appearance of your test to your exact specifications. A few of the more popular options are presented below. Answer Space Depending on how your students will complete the test, you can turn on or off space for answers. For example, if you want your students to write the answers on the test next to each question, you can provide space to do so. If your students will be using a bubble sheet or a separate piece of paper, you can show only the questions and answer choices. Choose Layout from the Test menu. Click the Answers tab and set the corresponding options in the Answer Space area. (Note: Some answer space options are disabled when tests are set to display in two-column format.) Mix Question Types You can choose to group questions by question type (e.g., multiple choice, true/false, etc.) or mix the question types. When you choose to group questions by question type, an instruction line describing how to answer questions of this type appears on the test. Often state tests do not group questions by question type. If you want to create a test that more closely resembles a state test, you can mix the question types. Choose Layout from the Test menu. Click the Question Types tab and select Allow question types to be mixed. Reorder the questions to mix the question types (see the Reorder Questions section in this instructional guide). Two-Column Formatting You can display tests in one- or two-column format, whichever best fits your testing needs. Choose Layout from the Test menu. Click the Page tab and select Two Columns. Choose whether you want vertical and horizontal lines on your test. Reorder Questions Changing the order of questions is a snap. Just choose Reorder from the Question menu, and you can drag and drop the questions to an order of your liking. If your test is set to group questions by question type, your questions must remain grouped by question type when reordering. For example, you cannot move a single true/false question to a position after the multiple-choice questions. Instead, you must move the entire group of true/false questions. If your test is set to allow for mixed question types, you can click Sort in the Reorder Questions dialog box to sort questions by question criteria.

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Replace Font If you want to change the font of your entire test, choose Replace Font from the Edit menu. Select the fonts and sizes you want to use, and click the Replace All button. ExamView® will instantly update the questions in your test with the newly selected font choices. Note: If you use the Replace Font option to replace a font, it is best to replace one font (e.g., Times New Roman) with another (e.g., Arial). Do not choose to replace all fonts with another font. This could cause unintended results such as replacing symbols or other special characters (e.g., Symbol). Adjust Multiple Choice Do you need to alter a multiple choice test for a student with special needs? To do so, choose Adjust Choices/Columns from the Question menu. You can instantly reduce the number of choices in all of your multiple choice questions. Layout and Style Several state and national test styles are built into ExamView®. Instantly format your test by choosing a style from the Style Gallery. For example, if you want to format your test to look like the PSAT, choose Style Gallery from the Test menu. Select the PSAT option and click the OK button. If you do not see a style that suits your needs in the Style Gallery, you can customize the test with the Layout and Style commands. Choose Layout from the Test menu and set the layout options. Then click the Style icon and choose your fonts and styles.

Selecting a Test Delivery Method After you’ve selected your Learning Series questions and customized the appearance of your test, you’re ready to deliver it to your students. With a variety of test delivery options and seamless integration among eInstruction products, you have the power and flexibility to keep your students engaged and grade your assessments quickly. For example, you can. . . In Insight 360™, run a self-paced Answer Key or ExamView test during a class session or ask

Learning Series questions during instruction.

Print one or many versions of the test.

Score paper tests with the student response system, providing instant student-performance feedback and automatic scoring from within ExamView® Test Manager and Insight 360™.

Print a bubble form and use ExamView®’s plain-paper scanning feature to grade the test automatically (Windows only).

Publish the test to your local area network (LAN) for students to take with the ExamView® Test Player.

Export the test as an HTML document that you can post to your own website.

Export the test for use with your ANGEL, Blackboard, or WebCT learning management system.

Publish the test directly to ANGEL or WebCT.

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Self-Paced Tests in Insight 360™ In Insight 360™, access Test Player to run a self-paced Answer Key or ExamView test during a class session. In a self-paced test, students use the student response system to answer test questions at their own pace. To access Test Player, click Start a Self-Paced Test on the Home tab or click Test Player on the My Tests tab.

Ask Questions During Instruction with Insight 360™ You can use the Mobi 360™ to ask ExamView® Learning Series questions during instruction. 1. Use the Mobi 360™ to display an ExamView question.

o Tap Favorites and add a Favorite for the ExamView Learning Series file you want to use during instruction. Then tap the Learning Series file that you placed in Favorites.

or

o Tap Question , tap the ExamView tab , tap the lower ExamView button, and use the digital pen as a mouse pointer to navigate to and select a Learning Series file.

2. The entire ExamView® Learning Series file will open.

o If the question you want to ask is not at the beginning of the file, navigate to the desired question by tapping the Scroll Left and Scroll Right buttons on the Mobi 360™.

o If the Recalc button is enabled on the Mobi 360™, you can click it to present the question with new variables and new answer options.

o If the Learning Series file contains questions that are not supported by the student response system (such as Essay), the Start button will not be enabled on those questions. However, you can still use the material as background to ask a Verbal question instead.

3. Tap Start to allow the students to answer the question.

4. When students are finished answering the question, tap Stop. Note: To show Learning Series feedback, use the digital pen as a mouse pointer and tap Feedback on the Learning Series question slide. Tap Question to return to the displayed question.

5. Repeat steps 2-4 for additional questions in the selected Learning Series file.

Paper Tests ExamView® includes several features to help you deliver paper tests to your students. In the Print Test window, you can indicate the number of different test versions you want to print (up to 26 variations) and set scramble options. If your test contains dynamic questions, you can choose to have ExamView® recalculate values for all the dynamic questions on the test. Finally, you can elect to print an answer strip for quick manual grading of objective questions, or you can print a version map—a correlation chart to show you how the test was scrambled.

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Using ExamView® Test Manager, you can easily administer assessments and score them with eInstruction’s® student response devices. When you use response devices to score your students’ tests, you engage students with technology, and get instant, real-time results. Similar to scanning results, student response device technology makes it easy to automatically grade most objective questions (e.g., multiple choice, yes/no, and true/false). If a test includes both objective and open-ended questions, you can score the objective questions with the student response devices and then manually grade and record the points for the open-ended questions later. Entering and transmitting answers with student response devices is fun and easy! After you create an assignment in ExamView® Test Manager, you can hand out the paper test and student response pads and start one of two student response session options to get the student results directly into ExamView® Test Manager: Student Managed: Students work in a self-paced mode. At any given time, students may

be responding to different questions on the assessment. Depending on the hardware system, the session will either open with a student feedback grid that must be projected or an instructor feedback window that shows transmitted results in real-time.

Teacher-Led Student Managed: The instructor controls the pace of the assessment and leads the class through each question. A student feedback grid must be projected for the session.

You can also elect to print a bubble sheet that corresponds to your test (Windows only). You can use the bubble sheets with the plain-paper scanning feature in ExamView® Test Manager to grade your tests and record the results automatically (Windows only).

Local Area Network (LAN) Tests If you have access to a local area network, LAN tests allow students to complete their tests on the computers at school, and ExamView® automatically grades the test and compiles the results for you. LAN tests are a valuable option as an assessment tool; however, they are equally valuable for independent study and extra practice during class time or in study labs. You can set up LAN tests to allow students to check the correctness of their responses and allow students to view the useful feedback information in order to learn from their mistakes.

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Figure 4. LAN test with student feedback

After you have created your test, simply publish the test to the ExamView® Test Player on LAN and follow the instructions that appear on the screen. You will save your test to a location on your local area network that your students can access. Students take LAN tests with the ExamView® Test Player software.

HTML Tests and Study Guides ExamView® enables you to export tests to HTML, which you can then upload to your own website. You can choose to create a self-grading study guide or a test that will send student results to you via email. After you export the test, you must copy the files to your website so that your students can access the test. Once you provide your students with the website address (URL) for the test, they can take the test anytime from anywhere they can access the Internet. Note: The terms of the Learning Series license agreement allow the test to be used only by students in your building, district, or campus.

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REPORTS

ExamView® Test Manager Reports ExamView® Test Manager enables you to prepare reports based on your students’ assignment results data. Reports may include graphs and charts, student scores, standards, and other data. You can generate individual student reports and class reports for a single assignment, a group of assignments, or all assignments. Student Reports: Assignment Results, Assignment Review, Student Progress Report,

Learning Focus, and Performance Summary

Class Reports: Assignment Results, Assignment Summary, Open-Ended Responses Worksheet, Item Analysis Summary, Learning Focus, Performance Summary, Class Performance Progress Chart, and Class Roster

You can print a report or save a report in PDF format.

Insight 360™ Reports Insight 360™ enables you to prepare formatted reports with statistics, graphs, student scores, and other data in exportable formats. You can generate reports for the class, individual class sessions, and individual students. The My Results tab in the Insight 360™ software allows you to view classroom data in several formats. Class Reports: Performance Analysis and Standards Analysis

Class Session Reports: Performance Analysis, Standards Analysis, Session Content (screenshots), and Response Grid (individual student scores)

Student Reports: Performance Analysis and Standards Analysis

You can save some reports in PDF or CSV file formats.

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TECHNICAL RESOURCES AND SUPPORT

eInstruction® provides technical assistance to instructors experiencing difficulty using its products. Before seeking technical support, please check the following: Check the detailed help files that offer step-by-step instructions.

Is your computer working properly?

Try some other software which you know is working on the same computer. If you are having problems with other software on your computer, this may indicate that you have a hardware problem.

If possible, try the software on another computer to check its functionality. Do the same problems occur on the second computer?

Can you repeat the problem? Does the problem occur at the same point each time?

In order to help you as quickly as possible, please have the following information available before you contact technical support:

o The ExamView Learning Series version you are using. You can see the version number by navigating to the location where you installed the Learning Series. (The Learning Series installs to this default path: c:\ExamView\Banks\Learning Series for Windows and Macintosh HD > ExamView Pro > Banks > Learning Series for Macintosh. The Learning Series assessment content is arranged in folders. The folder names include the version number (e.g., _v9).)

o The ExamView Assessment Suite version you are using. You can see the version number by accessing the About screen from the Help menu (Windows) or the program menu (Macintosh).

o Information about the computer hardware you are using.

o The version of the operating system installed on your computer.

o The exact wording of error messages and a description of your actions when the problem occurs.

You can contact us for technical support by email or phone. Send your questions to www.einstruction.com/support or call 888.333.4988.

Visit our web site at www.einstruction.com regularly for the latest product news and updates on ExamView®, the ExamView® Learning Series, student response systems, Insight 360™, Workspace™ and other new products.