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Identify a commercially produced assessment tool used in an educational setting.

needs to be able to be used in at least three educational settings to obtain data on student achievement or improve instruction

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Promethean interactive whiteboards and software, with hand-held devices for student input, as an assessment, data producing and student tracking tool in the classroom. A commercially produced assessment tool used in an educational setting is determined.

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A commercially-produced assessment tool that I used extensively at my last school in the US was one produced by Promethean. This company makes interactive white boards and a software package that creates presentations for that board, called flashcharts. Similar to PowerPoint, but much more interactive, Promethean's software can be integrated with hand-held devices which allow students in the classroom to take quizzes and tests that are projected on the white board. The entire class can be polled using these hand-held devices, and the class responses can be ...

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