Inspect Math and ELA
General Tools and Resources
Services
Pre-Built Assessments
Quick, quiz-like assessments; focused on the major standard clusters
Grades: 3-8
Content Areas: ELA and Math Length: 6-8 questions
# of Assessments: Varies by grade
Purpose of Assessment: Evaluate student performance on the major standard clusters and prepare students for the content and item type modalities seen on high-stakes tests
Linked Tools: Assessment Designs
Administration: Online Only
Naming Convention: IInspect Cluster Quiz Grade 4 Place Value: Operations Multi-Digit Arithmetic [School Year]
Short, prebuilt assessments that focus on one or more of the SBAC targets
Grades: 3-8 and high school
Content Areas: ELA and Math
Length: Varies by assessment
# of Assessments: Varies by grade
Purpose of Assessment: Provide information about a student’s ability to demonstrate knowledge and skills represented by the targets; follow SBAC IAB blueprints and item specifications
Linked Tools:
SBAC Block Mirror Assessments Overview
Administration: Online Only
Naming Convention: Inspect Grade 3 ELA SBAC Block Mirror: Revising [School Year]
Interim assessments that should be modified to meet district’s specific pacing; online and paper‐allowable versions available
Grades: K-11 ELA and K-8 and high school for math (both integrated and end-of-course pathways supported)*
Content Areas: ELA and Math
Length: 15-25 questions
# of Assessments:
K-2 – 4 per grade (Orange, Green, Pink, Blue)
Grades 3+ – 3 per grade (Orange, Green, Pink)
K-2 – 4 per grade (Orange, Green, Pink, Blue)
Grades 3+ – 3 per grade (Orange, Green, Pink)
Purpose of Assessment: Track student progress towards standard mastery. Provide timely feedback to both teacher and learner to inform instruction
Linked Tools:
Pacing Guides
Assessment Summaries
Administration: Online Only and Paper/Allowable versions available
Naming Convention: Inspect Grade 3 ELA Pink Interim Assessment [School Year] [Delivery Method]
*Coverage may vary by state
Comprehensive assessment directly modeled after the SBAC Blueprints to allow for intervention prior to high‐stakes testing
Grades: 3-11 ELA and 3-8 and high school for math (both integrated and end-of-course pathways supported)*
Content Areas: ELA and Math Length: 35-40 questions
# of Assessments: 2 – pre/post
Purpose of Assessment: Predict student performance on high-stakes end-of-year assessment
Linked Tools: Assessment Summaries
Administration: Online Only
Naming Convention: Inspect Grade 3 ELA Blue Comprehensive Assessment [School Year]
*Coverage may vary by state
Performance‐based assessment applying classroom knowledge to solve real‐world problems
Grades: 3-8 and 11
Content Areas: ELA and Math
Length:
ELA: set of sources followed by 3 research questions and a full-write essay
Math: 6 questions following a sustained task
# of Assessments: 3 per grade
Purpose of Assessment: Allow students to focus on higher order thinking processes while working through authentic problems
Administration: Online
Naming Convention: Inspect Grade 8 Math Climate Change Performance Task [School Year]
Multi-day performance-based assessments
Grades: 2-12
Content Areas: ELA and Math
# of Assessments: 3-4 per grade
Purpose of Assessment: Multi-day performance tasks that provide multiple access points and various ways to scaffold to assess students at different levels of preparedness
Administration: Paper/pencil
Online self-paced assessments to identify students who are having difficulties with certain early literacy or mathematics foundational skills in order to provide timely intervention
Grades: K-2
Content Areas: ELA and Math
Length: Varies by assessment
# of Assessments: 1-6
Purpose of Assessment: Focuses on the foundational skills that promote future academic success
Linked Tools:
ELENA Overview
Assessment Designs
Administration: Online Only
Naming Convention: Inspect Grade 2 Early Numeracy: Place Value and Properties of Operations to Add and Subtract Form B [School Year]
Get insight into student understanding of foundational skills
Grades: K-1
Content Areas: ELA and Math
Length: Varies
# of Assessments: 124
Purpose of Assessment: Help teachers have better insight into student understanding
Linked Tools:
How Mail Moves Scoring Sheet
Kate Shelley Scoring Sheet
Shake, Rattle, and Roll Scoring Sheet
Family Band Scoring Sheet
Bearded Dragon Scoring Sheet
Hound and Owlet Scoring Sheet
Children's Garden Scoring Sheet
New Buddy Scoring Sheet
Construction Site Scoring Sheet
Hen Builds a House Scoring Sheet
Really Big Dogs Scoring Sheet
Dog Park Scoring Sheet
Administration: Paper/Pencil
Task type assessments mirroring the California ELPAC
Grades: 3-5 grade band
Purpose of Assessment: Help determine the progress of English learners' ability to listen, read, and write in English.
Administration: Online Only
Comprehensive assessments that follow the new AzM2 blueprints and item specifications
Grades: 3-8 and 10
Content Areas: ELA and Math
# of Assessments: 3 forms
Purpose of Assessment: These assessments can be used for growth measures and to predict how well a student will do on the AzM2 assessment and can be used to disrupt the prediction by identifying where intervention is needed before the assessment.
Administration: Online Only and Paper/Allowable versions available
