Research

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.


Student Progress Monitoring System®

Student Progress Monitoring System® (SPMS): An Effective Formative Assessment System Supported by Research and Theory – The summary will define formative assessment, explain why it is so crucial to student learning and list and elaborate on the characteristics of effective formative assessments.  This overview will demonstrate that SPMS possesses the features and tools needed for educators to produce assessments that provide invaluable feedback with regards to student progress in acquisition of critical skills and knowledge..


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.