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March 2018

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 [...]

Defy Ventures: another Quick Key partner that is doing good and growing fast

By |2018-03-08T21:46:27+00:00March 8th, 2018|

We are proud to support Defy Ventures as they work to train incarcerated individuals to become entrepreneurs and leaders, and congratulate them on their outstanding success over the last five years. Defying Expectations Defy Ventures Founder Cat Hote Defy Ventures, one of Quick Key's partner organizations, is a non-profit organization that offers a [...]

February 2018

How North Carolina Schools Use SchoolNet And Quick Key Together to Measurably Improve Student Outcomes

By |2018-03-21T14:03:19+00:00February 23rd, 2018|

These North Carolina Schools Use SchoolNet And Quick Key Together to Measurably Improve Student Outcomes. Carver High School and Guilford Prep (a Charter Public School) have found that using Quick Key alongside SchoolNet makes it easier for them to implement meaningful and effective frequent formative assessments according to their pacing [...]

3 Steps to Measurable Improvement in High-Needs Schools

By |2018-02-24T12:25:18+00:00February 22nd, 2018|

It is Hard to Get Recognition for Improvement at a High-Needs School ... BUT YOU CAN! The joy of teaching is too often undermined by the immense focus on standardized testing, proficiency expectations, and school report cards. Only teachers can truly understand the difficulty of meeting [...]

From Scantron to Mobile Grading at the Idaho Virtual School District

By |2019-10-11T17:38:23+00:00February 16th, 2018|

The Idaho Virtual Academy (IDVA) is a virtual school serving high school students across the state. Each semester, students in roughly a dozen testing centers arrive for in-person, on-paper final exams covering each subject. Before 2016,  a team of several staff from the office of Julie Ingwersen, Data Coordinator for IDVA, would run each test through a [...]

Top Five Questions to Ask about your school’s use of formative assessment tools & data

By |2018-12-10T20:14:20+00:00February 8th, 2018|

It's That Time of Year Again... Lo and behold, it's time to start getting ready for state tests. So: what are you going to do this year, that you didn't do last year, to maximize your students' success on these upcoming exams? Data from traditional formative assessments - i.e. benchmark tests - aren't going to [...]

3 Ways to Get your Frequent Formative Game On NOW

By |2018-03-06T00:07:54+00:00February 7th, 2018|

If you start using weekly or bi-weekly formative assessments to guide instruction and remediation right now, you can increase the number of students scoring "proficient" or better on the state exam by 10-25%. Outlandish? Hardly. This is exactly what is happening with the schools and teachers I am working with today. The Academic Research Research [...]

January 2018

The Balance of Technology and the Art of Teaching

By |2018-01-25T10:45:52+00:00January 25th, 2018|

by: Dr. Andrea Peoples-Marwah, Ed.D. 2017 In the age of technology, we dive into our iPads, iPods, our cell phones, laptops, and other savvy devices which introduce us to the world, its simplicities and complexities. A simple command can lead us to an array of fascinating, riveting, awe-inspiring facts, data, trends, and endless information about whatever [...]

Gridded Response (Numerical) with Quick Key

By |2018-01-18T11:44:24+00:00January 18th, 2018|

Quick Key now does Gridded Response After several months of R&D, I am proud to announce that Quick Key now does Gridded Response for numerical answers on paper quizzes. You can view our help article here.  What is Gridded Response?  Gridded Response uses a paper bubble sheet with bubbles for digits 0-9, plus decimal point, negative [...]

December 2017

M.I.T. Enterprise Forum hosts Quick Key

By |2017-12-11T04:52:20+00:00December 11th, 2017|

Please join us tonight - December 11, 2017 - at 5:30 pm for the MIT Enterprise Forum (MITEF) EdTech Launch Smart Clinic Walter and I will be presenting QKXchange™ to the MIT Enterprise Forum, a.k.a. MITEF, a group of scholars, educators, engineers, and other members of the tech venture community. QKXchange™ is the next phase of our Rapid [...]