Common Assessments: An Overview

Common Assessments on Quizizz help you analyze student proficiency in standards at the class, school, and district levels—all within the easy-to-use and engaging Quizizz platform. Admins can now efficiently administer standard-aligned assessments, monitor participation, and analyze detailed reports across the district. 

In this article, we will discuss the feature, its benefits, and best practices for implementation.

Common Assessments are available as an add-on with the Quizizz School & District Plans. To access this feature and know more, please reach out to sales@quizizz.com.

What are Common Assessments?

Common Assessments are standards-based tests that are administered to all students in a grade or course at regular intervals in the school year. Aligned with the district’s unique curriculum, they provide insights into student proficiency, identify learning gaps across the class, school, and district levels and guide targeted support, ensuring equitable learning outcomes for all students.

How does this feature work?

Common Assessments follow this sequence:

1. Authoring: A team of teachers work together to develop an assessment that is tailored to the specific needs of the students and the district's curriculum. Quizizz offers a range of question types that encourage higher-order thinking and allow students to effectively showcase their understanding.
2. Distributing a Common Assessment: The district administrator initiates a Common Assessment from the above assessment, assigns it to course teachers, and sets the start and end times for the teachers to administer it.
3. Administration: A teacher administers the Common Assessment to their class within the designated timeframe.
4. Student participation: Students participate in the teacher-led Common Assessment, which includes individualized Accommodations to support diverse needs and Focus Mode to minimize distractions and prevent cheating.
5. District-wide insights: Our aggregated reports allow the creator of the Common Assessment to track progress and gain valuable insights across the school district.

Benefits of Common Assessments

The introduction of Common Assessments brings a range of advantages to the educational ecosystem:

1. Data-driven instruction: Analyzing results from standard-aligned assessments lets educators identify struggling students and provide targeted support across schools, teachers, and individual students
2. Student-centered assessment: With a variety of higher-order thinking question types and Accommodations, these assessments offer students multiple ways to demonstrate their understanding, catering to diverse learning styles and needs
3. Timely instructional adjustments: Common Assessments provide valuable insights into student performance that can help inform timely instructional adjustments
4. Enhanced teacher collaboration: By working together to design and analyze assessments, educators can share insights and strategies and use a more unified and effective teaching approach

Best practices for implementing Common Assessments

To maximize the benefits of Common Assessments, you can:

1. Identify the essential learning outcomes for your course
2. Collaborate with fellow teachers to design and analyze assessments and leverage everyone's knowledge to enhance student learning
3. Develop lessons and curricula with the final goals in mind by using insights from assessments to guide and adapt teaching methods
4. Use data from the assessments to identify opportunity areas, adapt teaching strategies when needed, and provide additional support to students who need it

Learn more:

• Create a Common Assessment for Your District as an Administrator
• Administer a Common Assessment as a Teacher
• Participate in a Common Assessment as a Student