Assessment System Overview
CAL's online assessment platform is a robust, reliable, and trusted online system that has evolved into the most advanced K-12 computerized testing application available. The user-friendly CAL system is easy to learn, yet powerful enough to provide comprehensive solutions for all online assessment needs.
With the capacity to deliver a wide variety of innovative, rich content items including audio, video, and animation, and item types including multiple-choice, multiple correct, short-answer, limited and extended constructed-response, true-false, and gridded-response items across content areas as diverse as reading, English language arts, mathematics, science, writing, and social studies, CAL’s trusted online system has evolved into the most advanced computerized testing application available.
Summative assessments
- Computer adaptive and fixed/scrambled formats
- Assessment results available to teachers immediately upon student completing the assessment
- Supports learning and informs instruction
- Allows immediate use of data to inform instruction
- State can make a local decision to determine configuration of Paper and Pencil verses Online (e.g. one grade, one subject, entire school, a sample, etc.)