Assessing student progress is a vital part of delivering high-quality, targeted instruction. That’s why Westchester's content development team excels at developing assessment items across curriculum areas. Our team works closely with you to understand your specific needs to develop the type of assessment program that will measure and analyze student achievement and that will provide positive and effective teaching and learning experiences.
We assist customers with assessment in a variety of ways:
- Collaborative planning
- Skills test development
- End-of-course test development
- Large-scale assessment development
- State assessments for required core content
- Passage and item development
- Tech-enhanced item (TEI) development for diagnostic, formative, and summative assessments
- Delivery via MS Word or .csv files
- Delivery for Learnosity and any other preferred platforms
Our clients often include Westchester’s illustration, design, or production services for a full-service solution for their assessment content development projects. Clients also rely on the high-level customer service that our project management team provides for each and every project.
Content Creation Partner with Learnosity
Westchester Education Services was Learnosity’s first Custom Content Creation partner. Learnosity and Westchester combine their complementary capabilities to develop engaging and innovative content that seamlessly integrates into client assessment systems. Learnosity allows for standards tagging of standards, as well as the application of other relevant metadata. The system also acts as a foundation for assessable interactivities.
Work Examples
Case Study
A client was developing a new middle-school Algebra Readiness math program, incorporating scaffolded learning concepts within their assessment content. They needed a partner who could produce a large volume of high-quality content in a compressed time period, had experience creating content directly in their preferred assessment authoring system, and had the expertise to develop new, accurate assessment items with a depth of knowledge and adherence to Common Core State Standards.
Read more about how Westchester met all their objectives within a compressed time period.
