Tech Tuesday - Front Row Ed

My apologies for this post being late; I thought I'd be up and running by Tuesday, but it seems that brain surgery took a bit out of me.  So...I'm posting a bit late.  Sorry, folks!

So, on to the post...

Are you looking for a GREAT tool for individualized math assessment and practice?  FrontRowEd has just the answer for you!!!

We have been using FrontRowEd in our fifth grade math classrooms for the past couple of months, and the result has been AMAZING!  This program is divided into each of the domains, and it first provides a diagnostic assessment for EACH child in EACH, placing students appropriately based on the standards that they've met rather than their ages.  Then, through interactive lessons and practice, it progresses students through the standards in each domain; the growth can be phenomenal!

Not only is the student experience wonderful (my fifth graders asked every day if they could "play" on FrontRow), but the teacher experience is well put-together, as well.  On the dashboard, teachers have access to class and individual student data, from where students are performing in a particular domain to what, exactly, each student is working on.  Not only that, there are also report cards (standards-based!) that can be printed and sent home with children, and there are individualized practice sheets printable based on EACH child's individual performance.  Can you say massive help with RTI?!

Some examples of the graphs and data are below:

Grade Level Graph by class.  When we started, I had students ranging from K to 4 on standards mastery.

This is a breakdown of student work (student names would be to the left) in the area of numbers and operations, the same area as the Grade Level Graph above.  Almost every child has gained a grade level within a month!

Here's a "report card" for an individual student.  Orange shows areas mastered with "low difficulty," green shows areas mastered with no difficulty, and blue shows areas currently being worked on.