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October 2018

Roosevelt Children’s Academy Significantly Improves Outcomes for Students, using Quick Key for fast classroom feedback

By |2019-04-03T19:59:07+00:00October 2nd, 2018|

The Story In the fall of 2017, school turnaround specialist principal Desiree Galashaw arrived at Roosevelt Children's Academy with a mandate to improve the elementary school's scores on her state's end of year exam in ELA and math. As in all K-12 settings, every day of every year counts, so Principal Galashaw and her staff [...]

September 2018

Use Case: Moving from Paper to Digital Benchmarks

By |2019-04-30T19:36:17+00:00September 19th, 2018|

In the spring of 2017 Jodie Beck, M.Ed. was hunting for an assessment vendor on behalf of her district, Cassia School District 151 in Cassia County, Idaho. Her team's plan was to stop doing their benchmark tests using a Scantron machine, and digitize their End of Course Assessments and benchmarks. According to Assistant Superintendent Sandra [...]

Quick Key does more than just multiple choice and gridded response

By |2018-09-17T21:29:46+00:00September 14th, 2018|

Quick Key does gridded response, open response, match, multi-answer, multi-select, and multiple choice On Chromebook, Chrome Kiosk, Bubble sheets, gridded sheets, and student phones and tablets Did you know you can ask open-response questions with Quick Key, in addition to gridded math response, auto-graded match questions, and more using quick Key's bubble sheets, Chromebook app, [...]

August 2018

The logic behind outstanding multiple-choice questions for formative evaluation

By |2019-01-24T19:56:19+00:00August 28th, 2018|

Multiple Choice: A Powerful and Versatile Workhorse Mike Dickinson, MA, MBA Introduction This post addresses a few ways to get more benefit from multiple choice (M/C) questions for both you and your students. This is a brief overview. This post addresses these four points: A common framework for developing multiple choice items (M/C). Tips and [...]

Why you need a Chromebook Kiosk App for Tests and Quizzes

By |2018-08-23T19:19:47+00:00August 23rd, 2018|

Kiosk apps are a great way to cheat-proof your tests With so many teachers working in the Google Classroom environment, and getting lots of benefits from student Google Chromebooks, it's only natural to want to give online tests and quizzes on these machines. But there is one problem: using web-based apps for tests and quizzes [...]

May 2018

GDPR Compliance Statement

By |2018-10-30T13:16:52+00:00May 23rd, 2018|

Quick Key is a GDPR compliant SaaS software service. The following are our GDPR-related policies: Cookies: Quick Key does not require users to allow cookies in order to use our services or get information. You can set your cookie preferences in your browser. We use Google Analytics (https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/) to help improve your experience on our [...]

March 2018

Measuring and Improving Student Engagement: An Education Leader’s Perspective

By |2019-04-19T22:13:00+00:00March 29th, 2018|

Diana Tang Measuring and Improving Student Engagement: An Education Leader's Perspective Interview with Diana Tang by Isaac D. Van Wesep ________________ Diana Tang is on a mission to expand the way teachers assess and improve their connections with - and impact on - their students. As Senior Managing Director for Teacher Leadership Development at [...]

How to Succeed with Response to Intervention in a Tiered Instruction Environment: a Case Study

By |2018-03-29T14:19:28+00:00March 21st, 2018|

Before Becoming the Top Performer in its District, This School Had to Review How Data Was and Wasn’t Shared in PLC Teams. Lake Arthur High School had been doing Response to Intervention (RTI), PLC, and Tiered Instruction techniques ever since their new principal Amanda Fontenot joined the team a few years ago. The system was [...]

Convert Quiz Assessment from Microsoft Word or PDF

By |2018-03-29T14:18:41+00:00March 14th, 2018|

Do you have quizzes, tests, or other assessments in Microsoft Word or PDF format? You can now import them (including each item and any standards or tags attached) into Quick Key. The process is easy: we do it for you. Interested? Click the Talk to Use Button below and tell us you want [...]

Power moves: Top 6 ways to use rapid formative assessment to promote student engagement

By |2019-01-24T20:13:37+00:00March 13th, 2018|

Even if you know all about student engagement, these six tips might be new to you. Student engagement is a hot topic these days because of its proven impact on graduation rates, school culture, and even academic achievement (although the data on this last one is not as strong one might think). Engagement is good. [...]