Research

• IntelliMetric®
• MY Access!®
• Professional Development

IntelliMetric®

IntelliMetric® is founded on solid research and development spanning more than two decades. More than 350 research studies conducted both in-house and by third-party experts have determined that IntelliMetric® has levels of consistency, accuracy and reliability that meet, and more often exceed, those of human expert scorers. These studies measured the use of IntelliMetric® in a wide variety of content areas and for a variety of assessment purposes, and found that IntelliMetric®:

• Agrees with or exceeds expert human scoring (On average, IntelliMetric® models agree within one point of expert raters 97% to 100% of the time; see the Journal of Technology, Learning and Assessment report.)
• Accurately scores responses across grade levels, subject areas and context (Comparisons of IntelliMetric® to expert scoring have been conducted with essays from fourth graders through adults in areas including English Language Arts, History, Social Science, Science, Business, and General Critical Thinking.)
• Shows a strong relationship to other measures of the same writing construct (See the WritePlacer Validity Study presented at AERA for more details.)
• Shows more reliable and more consistent results across samples than human expert scorers (See the IntelliMetric® Accuracy Summary Report for more information.)

MY Access!®

MY Access!® Efficacy Report – Summarizes current data regarding the use of MY Access! in various instructional settings and its impact on improving the writing scores of students.

Professional Development

Grounded in Research and Theory – Discusses essential elements in Professional Development programs, offers a comparative discussion of these elements in relation to current research on effective Professional Development, and reviews the impact of professional development on successful implementation of the MY Access! writing program.