Five-Star Pivot provides a comprehensive assessment solution called INSPECT that includes over 30,000 standards-aligned assessment items and pre-built assessments. INSPECT allows teachers to easily create formative and benchmark assessments to monitor student progress and evaluate curriculum and instruction. INSPECT assessments can be administered online or on paper and provide robust reporting of student performance data.

1. INSPECT®
Comprehensive Assessment Solution
Dr. Shannon Wells,
Key Data Systems
Dr. Schauna Findlay Relue,
Five-Star Technology Solutions
Laura Close,
Close Education

2. Where is..

3. What is INSPECT®?
Five-Star Pivot provides schools with all the tools they need for better insight into student data and
continuous improvement for students and staff in one flexible cloud-based platform. Five modules
work independently or in concert to help you not only assess students, but make student data
actionable with a variety of search, reporting, and dashboard functionalities. Five-Star’s team of highly-
respected Indiana educators, covering all regions of the state, stand ready to be your assessment and
professional development partners.
INSPECT®
An innovative bank of assessment items and set of pre-built assessments specifically designed to
measure student mastery of the IAS, comprised of:
30,000+ IAS aligned assessment items
200+ pre-built assessments and checkpoints
Access - Online and Paper-Pencil Administration

4. Why INSPECT®?
✓ Provides easy-to-use, IAS aligned Formative Benchmark Assessments
✓ Includes ISTEP+ blueprint aligned end-of-year assessments
✓ Allows for specific formative feedback for teachers and students
✓ Supports classroom teachers with ongoing, formative assessment needs
✓ Allows for reliable Curriculum and Instruction evaluation and adjustment
✓ Ensures valid and reliable assessments and data
✓ Gives robust reporting and analytics
✓ Delivers online
✓ Makes implementation easy
✓ Provides the most value for your investment

5. ∙ All included with INSPECT® Comprehensive Assessment Solution:
o IAS Formative Benchmark Assessment Suite
o ISTEP+ Aligned End-of-Year Assessments
o Performance Tasks/PBA (3 Sets)
o Classroom Checkpoints
o MS Math Acceleration Placement Tests
o English Language Learner Assessment Suite
∙ Continuously monitored for reliability and validity
∙ Robust reporting available through Five-Star’s Pivot Platform

6. IAS Formative Benchmark
Assessment Suite
∙ Three Formative Benchmark Assessments for year-long
progress monitoring
∙ Available for grades K-12 for E/LA
∙ Available for grades K-Algebra II for math
∙ Named by color for suggested administration
∙ Orange: early October
∙ Green: early December
∙ Pink: early February
∙ Can be modified to match each corporation’s specific needs

7. ISTEP+ Blueprint Aligned
End-of-Year Assessments
• Developed using ISTEP+ Blueprints
• Aligned with the IDOE Instructional and
Assessment Guidance
--Critical, important, and additional content
• Fixed form assessments
--ISTEP+ practice for students
--Predictive beginning in the 2016-17 school
year
--Formative assessment data to drive
instruction/intervention before ISTEP+

9. • Innovative IAS Item Bank that measures student mastery
of the 2014 Indiana Academic Standards (IAS)
• Over 30,000 E/LA and Math Items
• English/Language Arts grades K-12
• Mathematics grades K-8
• High School Mathematics through Algebra II
• Allows for creation of Classroom Formative Assessments
• Hundreds of items added each month
• Pre-built Checkpoint Assessments

10. INSPECT® Item Development
• INSPECT® items are written, processed, and formatted
to conform to the following specifications:
• Standard(s) alignment
• Content and skill level
• Use of academic vocabulary
• Standard use and articulated in the item
specifications
• Range in cognitive complexity
• DOK and Revised Bloom’s

11. INSPECT® Item Development
(cont.)
Distractors
Reflect the most likely cognitive disconnect in learning
Rationales
Documentation of the most likely reason (rationale) a student would
arrive at each distractor
Appropriate text complexity
Qualitative measures
Quantitative measures
Continuous review for quality assurance
Reliability and validity
Comprehensive rubrics with sample responses

12. INSPECT® Item Development Process
Mathematical Process Standards:
MA.6.GM.4: Find the area of complex shapes composed of polygons by composing or decomposing into simple shapes; apply this technique to solve
real-world and other mathematical problems.

13. INSPECT® Item Integrity Process

14. INSPECT® Item Types
• Multiple choice, single
correct response
• Multiple choice, multiple
correct responses
• Constructed response
• Complete Rubrics
• Sample Student
Responses
• Evidence-based selected
response
• Hot text: select text
• Equation/Numeric
• Fill-in tables
• Drag and drop
• Graphing
• Matching tables
• Drag and drop
• Listening

15. IAS/ISTEP+ and
INSPECT®
New Ways of Assessing Learning

22. MA.AI.L.1 ……
MA.AI.L.2 ……
MA.G.LP.2……
MA.G.CI.2
MA.AI.RNE.3:…
MA.AI.RNE.7
MA.AI.RNE.1 2 2
1 2
2 3
2 4
2 3
1 2
2 4

23. MA.2.CA.6: Show that the order in which two
numbers are added (commutative property) and
how the numbers are grouped in addition
(associative property) will not change the sum.
These properties can be used to show that numbers
can be added in any order.
MA.2.PS.2
MA.2.PS.7
2

24. MA.3.NS.4: Represent a fraction, 1/b, on a
number line by defining the interval from 0 to 1
as the whole, and partitioning it into b equal
parts. Recognize that each part has size 1/b and
that the endpoint of the part based at 0 locates
the number 1/b on the number line.
MA.3.PS.2
MA.3.PS.4

25. Once a test is created, click on Settings to assign it
to students.

26. When students login, their Dashboards will display their classes and they will see any
new assessments assigned to them. They click the test to get to the summary screen.

33. Students scroll down the page to see the entire passage of text.

40. Kindergarten E/LA - Reading
Multiple Choice INSPECT®
K.RL.2.3: Identify important elements of the text (e.g., characters, settings, or events).
Difficulty: Medium
Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy: 2 Understanding
Depth of Knowledge: 2

41. Grade 1 E/LA - Writing
Multiple Choice INSPECT®
1.W.6.2a: Capitalization – Capitalizing the first word of a sentence, dates, names of people, and the pronoun I.
Difficulty: Medium
Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy: 1 Remembering
Depth of Knowledge: 1 Recall

42. Grade 2 E/LA - Reading
Multiple Choice INSPECT®
2.RV.3.2: Determine the meanings of words and phrases in a nonfiction text relevant to a second grade topic orsubject
area.
Difficulty: Medium
Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy: 2 Understanding
Depth of Knowledge: 2 Skill/Concept

43. Kindergarten Math
Multiple Choice INSPECT®
MA.K.NS.11: Develop initial understandings of place value and the base 10 number system by showing equivalent forms
of whole numbers from 10 to 20 as groups of tens and ones using objects and drawings
Difficulty: High | Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy: 2 Understanding | Depth of Knowledge: 1 Recall | Mathematical Process
Standards 2, 4, 6

44. Grade 1 Math
Multiple Choice INSPECT®
MA.1.G.4: Partition circles and rectangles into two and four equal parts; describe the parts using the words halves,
fourths, and quarters; and use the phrases half of, fourth of, and quarter of. Describe the whole as two of, or four of, the
parts. Understand for partitioning circles and rectangles into two and four equal parts that decomposing into equal parts
creates smaller parts.
Difficulty: High | Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy: 2 Understanding | Depth of Knowledge: 1 Recall | Mathematical Process
Standards 7

45. Grade 2 Math
Equation/Numeric INSPECT®
MA.2.CA.3: Solve real-world problems involving addition and subtraction within 100 in situations involving lengths that
are given in the same units (e.g., by using drawings, such as drawings of rulers, and equations with a symbol for the
unknown number to represent the problem).
Difficulty: High | Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy: 2 Understanding | Depth of Knowledge: 2 Skill/Concept| Mathematical
Process Standards: 1, 5, 8

46. Grade 3-4 E/LA – Reading
Evidence-based Selected Response
Sample ISTEP+®
Standard: 3.RN.2.2: Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain
how they support the main idea.

47. Grade 3 E/LA – Reading
Evidence-based Selected Response
INSPECT®
Standard: 3.RN.2.2: Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.
Difficulty: Medium
Depth of Knowledge: 2 – Skill/Concept
Revised Bloom's Taxonomy: 2 – Understanding

48. Grade 3-4 E/LA – Reading
Drag and Drop Sample ISTEP+®
Standard: 3.RN.2.3: Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in
processes or procedures in a text, using words such as first, next, finally, because, problem, solution, same, and different.

49. Grade 4 E/LA – Reading
Drag and Drop INSPECT®
Standard: 4.RN.2.3: Explain the relationships between events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, based on
specific information in the text.
Difficulty: Low
Depth of Knowledge: 2 – Skill/Concept
Revised Bloom's Taxonomy: 2 – Understanding

50. Grade 3-4 E/LA – Writing
Multiple Choice, Multiple Correct
Response Sample ISTEP+®
Standard: 3.W.5: Conduct short research on a topic.
Recognize that some sources may be more reliable than others.

51. Grade 3 E/LA – Writing
Multiple Choice, Multiple Correct
Response INSPECT®
Standard: 3.W.5: Conduct short research on a topic.
• Recognize that some sources may be more reliable than others.
Standard: 3.W.5: Conduct short research on a topic. Recognize that some sources may be more reliable than others.
Difficulty: High
Depth of Knowledge: 2 – Skill/Concept
Revised Bloom's Taxonomy: 4 – Analyzing

52. Grade 5-6 E/LA – Reading
Multiple choice Sample ISTEP+®
Standard: 5.RL.2.3: Describe two or more characters, settings, or events in a
story or play, drawing on specific details in the text, and how they impact the
plot.

53. Grade 5 E/LA – Reading
Multiple choice INSPECT®
Standard: 5.RL.2.3: Describe two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or play,
drawing on specific details in the text, and how they impact the plot.
Difficulty: Low Depth of Knowledge: 3 – Strategic Thinking
Revised Bloom's Taxonomy: 2 – Understanding

54. Grade 5-6 E/LA – Writing
Multiple Choice, Multiple Correct
Response ISTEP+®
Standard: 6.W.5: Conduct short research assignments and tasks to build knowledge about the research process and the
topic under study.
● Gather relevant information from multiple sources, and annotate sources.

55. Grade 5 E/LA – Writing
Multiple Choice, Multiple Correct
Response INSPECT®
Standard: 5.W.5: Conduct short research assignments and tasks on a topic.
Identify and acquire information through reliable primary and secondary sources.
Difficulty: High
Depth of Knowledge: 2 – Skills/Concepts
Revised Bloom's Taxonomy: 3 – Applying

56. Grade 7-8 E/LA – Reading
Multiple Choice, Multiple Correct
Response Sample ISTEP+®
Standard: 8.RN.2.2: Analyze the development of a central idea over the course of a text, including its
relationship to supporting ideas; provide a detailed, objective summary of the text.

57. Grade 7 E/LA – Reading
Multiple Choice, Multiple Correct
Response INSPECT®
Standard: 7.RN.2.2: Analyze the development of two or more central
ideas over the course of a text; provide a detailed, objective summary
of the text.
Difficulty: High
Depth of Knowledge: 2 – Skills/Concepts
Revised Bloom's Taxonomy: 2 – Understanding

58. Grade 7-8 E/LA – Reading
Evidence-based Selected Response
Sample ISTEP+®
Standard: 7.RL.2.2: Analyze the development of a theme or central idea over the course of a work of literature; provide a
detailed summary that supports the analysis.

59. Grade 7 E/LA – Reading
Evidence-based Selected Response
INSPECT®
Standard: 7.RL.2.2: Analyze the development of a theme or central idea over the course of a work of literature; provide a detailed
summary that supports the analysis.
Difficulty: Medium
Depth of Knowledge: 2 – Skills/Concepts
Revised Bloom's Taxonomy: 2 – Understanding

60. Grade 7-8 E/LA – Vocabulary
Multiple Choice Sample ISTEP+®
Standard: 7.RV.2.1: Use context to determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases.

61. Grade 7 E/LA – Vocabulary
Multiple Choice INSPECT®
Standard: 7.RV.2.1: Use context to determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases.
Difficulty: Low
Depth of Knowledge: 1 – Recall
Revised Bloom's Taxonomy: 2 – Understanding

62. Grade 7 E/LA – Listening
INSPECT®

63. Grade 3-4 Math
Equation/Numeric Sample ISTEP+®
Standard: 3.AT.2: Solve real-world problems involving whole number multiplication and division within 100 in situations
involving equal groups, arrays, and measurement quantities (e.g., by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the
unknown number to represent the problem).

64. Grade 3 Math
Equation/Numeric INSPECT®
Standard: 3.AT.2: Solve real-world problems involving whole number multiplication and division within 100 in
situations involving equal groups, arrays, and measurement quantities (e.g., by using drawings and equations with a
symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem).
Difficulty: Low
Depth of Knowledge: 1 – Recall
Revised Bloom's Taxonomy: 2 – Understanding
Mathematical Process Standards: 1, 4

65. Grade 7-8 Math
Drag and Drop Sample ISTEP+®
Standard: 7.NS.3: Know there are rational and irrational numbers. Identify, compare, and order rational and common
irrational numbers (√2, √3, √5, Π) and plot them on a number line.

66. Grade 6 Math
Drag and Drop INSPECT®
Standard: 6.AF.1: Apply the properties of operations (e.g., identity, inverse, commutative, associative, distributive
properties) to create equivalent linear expressions and to justify whether two linear expressions are equivalent when
the two expressions name the same number regardless of which value is substituted into them.
Difficulty: Medium
Depth of Knowledge: 2 – Skills/Concepts
Revised Bloom's Taxonomy: 3 – Applying
Mathematical Process Standards: 1, 4

67. HS Math
Multi-Part INSPECT®
MA.AII.Q.2: Use completing the square to rewrite quadratic functions into the form y = a(x + h)^2 + k, and graph these
functions with and without technology. Identify intercepts, zeros, domain and range, and lines of symmetry. Understand
the relationship between completing the square and the quadratic formula.
Difficulty: Medium| Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy: 2 Understanding| Depth of Knowledge: 2| Mathematical Process
Standards 1, 5, 7

68. Pivot Demo
Technology Enhanced

69. Sample Math Performance Task
Grade 8—Part A, #1

70. Sample Math Performance Task
Grade 8—Part A, #2

71. Sample Math Performance Task
Grade 8—Part B, #3

72. Sample Math Performance Task
Grade 8—Part B, #4

73. Pivot Assessment
Student Dashboard

74. Pivot Assessment
Short Answer Question

75. Pivot Assessment
Multiple Choice, Multiple Correct

76. Pivot Assessment
Submit Screen

77. Pivot Assessment
Student Summary Screen

78. Pivot Assessment
Immediate Student Feedback

79. Reports Make Action Easy
IAS
5.RL.2.1
IAS
5.RL.2.2
IAS
5.RL.2.3
IAS
5.RL.2.1
IAS
5.RL.2.3
IAS
5.RL.2.2
IAS
5.RV.2.2
IAS
5.RV.3.1
IAS
5.W.4
IAS
5.W.6.2b
IAS
5.W.6.2b
(2015-2016)

83. INSPECT A

84. 100
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80
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Pivot Student Roster View of Side by Side Data

85. 100
Click a Score to Drill into Each Strand
ISTEP+ INSPECT

86. Student Data Card
590

87. Included Professional Development
 Pivot/INSPECT® Training
Training
Ongoing Customer Support
 Professional Development
Using Data to Guide Instruction
Formative Assessment Feedback
 Regional Network Meetings
Sharing of Best Practices

88. INSPECT®
Pivot’s INSPECT®
Comprehensive
Assessment Solution
INSPECT® IAS Item
Bank
Pre-built Assessment
Suite
IAS Formative
Benchmark
Assessment Suite
ISTEP+ Aligned End-
of-Year Assessments
Professional
Development

89. What’s Next with INSPECT®?
All included at no additional cost!
• Benchmarks and End-of-Year Assessments in
Spanish to Support Indiana’s Dual Language and
Immersion Programs (Fall 2015-16)
• Applied Skills Assessments (December 2015)
• Alignments of Indiana IAS for Science and Social
Studies (2016-17)

90. Top 10 Reasons Why
1. Administer easy-to-use, IAS aligned Formative Benchmark
Assessments
2. Use any of the over 200, IAS aligned pre-built assessments
Including ISTEP+ blueprint-aligned end-of-year assessments
3. Customize assessments to meet your corporation’s pacing
4. Provide specific formative feedback to students
5. Support classroom teachers with ongoing, formative assessment
needs
6. Ensure valid and reliable assessments and data
7. Administer assessments online to meet your schools’ needs
8. Use robust reporting and analytics that drill down to standards,
items, and students
9. Ensure easy implementation
10. Get the most value for your investment
INSPECT®

91. Partners
with
Close Education, LLC is
proud to partner with Five-
Star Technology Solutions,
LLC!
Close Education, LLC

92. UNIVERSAL READING ASSESSMENT
AND DIAGNOSTIC (RAPS 360™)
Grades K-12
As a result of this partnership:
Purchase RAPS 360 for Grades 3-10
Districts receive the diagnostic reading assessment for grades K-12

93. Providing MORE than just a
score!
• A highly reliable, adaptive reading diagnostic and
assessment for grades K-12
• Quickly and efficiently assesses critical reading skills
• Easily Categorizes students’ reading levels and growth
• Exceeds, Meets, Approaching, Critical
• Provides finite details to enable instruction to be
strategic and targeted
UNIVERSAL READING ASSESSMENT AND
DIAGNOSTIC (RAPS 360™)

94. Computer Adaptive
“Computer adaptive testing (CAT) can yield reliability
and validity comparable to traditional paper-and-pencil
test with far fewer items (Wainer, 2000).”
• Unbiased
• Assessment time is minimized (approximately 30
minutes)
• Results are instantly accessible
• 1 to 1 compatible
• Tablet compliant
• Platform neutral
Safari, Mac, I-Pad, Windows, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox

95. There are 3 BM tests deployed as follows:
Example: School Year August 1 to May 31
BM 1: August 1 to October 31
BM 2: November 1 to January31
BM 3: February 1 to April 30
Progress Monitoring is set by each district, weekly, bi-monthly, etc.
Districts have complete flexibility to administer
tests when and how often they choose!
BENCHMARK TESTING

96. Measures Meaningful Reading Behaviors:
Using Eight Diagnostic Tests
Comprehension Screening Assessment
Natural Fluency
Expected Fluency
Pause-Assisted Fluency (Reading Connected Text)
Phoneme Segmentation
Listening Vocabulary
Phonics- Decoding and Encoding
Eye Tracking

97. Instant Access to Meaningful
Information
• Evaluates reading ability of all students above and below grade level
• Provides grade level equivalency readability measure for all students
• Identifies finite details in all areas that can inhibit reading
comprehension
• Analyzes effectiveness of all instructional practices including general
instruction, and interventions for targeted populations
• Measures growth and movement through reading categories (critical,
approaching, meeting and exceeding)
• Ability to identify gaps and assign instructional groupings quickly,
accurately, and systematically through the use of technology

98. BENCHMARK PERFORMANCE CATEGORY GROWTH
District, Building, Class, and Student

99. Avon District Results 2014-2015
RTI – 20 Hours on MVRC

100. Avon District Results 2014-2015
RTI – 30 Hours on MVRC
Only 4
students left
in critical after
30 hours.

101. Measures Intervention Effectiveness:
District Growth vs. Growth with Intervention MindPlay Virtual Reading Coach

102. Reading Comprehension
Fluency and Comprehension
Listening Vocab
Phonics
Visual Scanning
Assisted Fluency
Student Report

104. Parent Report

105. Student Error Report:
Every error and expected response is recorded

106. Teacher needs : School/District Number, login name,
password
Student needs: School/District Number, login name,
password
Easy login @ www.mindplay.com
Close Education, LLC www.closeeducation.com

107. Expected Fluency
Natural Fluency
Visual Scanning
Phonics
RIGOROUS, ADAPTIVE ASSESSMENT
Comprehension Screen
Listening Vocabulary
Phoneme Segmentation
Pause Assisted

108. SUPPLEMENTAL SUPPORT MATERIALS
No additional cost – accessible
from MindPlay Manager
Close Education, LLC

109. INSPECT®
Comprehensive Assessment Solution
five-startech.com/pivotinspect
Learn more about
Key Data Systems
and request sample items
INSPECT@KeyDataSys.com
For more Pivot INSPECT
information, contact
Brenda Robidou
brenda@five-startech.com
317.679.3985
Contact Us!
RAPS 360 Reading Diagnostic Assessment
Laura Close
laura@closeeducation.com
317.409.4430