Balanced Assessment
Customized to your district and state standards, Civic Learning Threads aligns your civic learning assessment plan with Content Spools, Big Idea Threads, Vocabulary Threads, and C3 Threads—each with the corresponding academic standards for each required social studies course. Services may include:
Instructionally embedded assessment:
Comprehensive course-specific Formative Assessment Guides for all social studies teachers, aligned to the curriculum map.
Digital learning and formative assessment activity templates prepared within the Newsela Formative platform, tagged to standards .
Common assessment plan that measures civic knowledge, reasoning, and literacy:
Constructed response items and performance tasks triple-tagged with content standard, analysis standard, and literacy standard.
District Interim Assessment (DIA) preparation within district's legacy standardized testing platform if possible, or within the Newsela Formative platform.