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ETS formative assessment item bank: Educational Testing Service.


www.etspulliam.org/index.asp Online Repository, $9 per student/year

This online test item bank contains more than 12,000 math and language arts language arts
pl.n.
The subjects, including reading, spelling, and composition, aimed at developing reading and writing skills, usually taught in elementary and secondary school.
 questions that K-12 teachers can use to help gauge student proficiency before high-stakes tests are taken. The questions can help teachers create custom formative assessments, target improvement efforts, adjust instruction throughout the year and develop personalized per·son·al·ize  
tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es
1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner.

2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify.
 learning strategies for students struggling with a particular standard. Districts can also use the bank to create benchmark assessments.

In addition, ETS ETS Educational Testing Service (nonprofit private educational testing and measurement organization)
ETS Emergency Telecommunications Service
ETS Electronic Trading System
ETS Engineering (&) Technical Services
 has upgraded its Instructional Data Management System for managing and using assessment data. so it can be a platform for the new item bank. IDMS See CA-IDMS and IDMSX.

1. (language, database) IDMS - A pictorial query language, an extension of Sequel2.

["A Management System for an Integrated Database of Pictures and Alphanumeric Data", G.Y. Tang, Computer Graphics Image Processing 16:270-286 (1981)].
 Version 5.0 also has an enhanced curriculum guide that allows users to define the sequence of standards within specified instructional periods by grade level, course or subject. The new message center allows staff members to post message for all users.
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Title Annotation:New Products: The latest offerings in books, hardware, Internet and software; Educational Testing Service
Author:Ezarik, Melissa
Publication:District Administration
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Date:Jul 1, 2005
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