News

• TRAILS-3: We invite school librarians working with 3rd graders to field test our draft TRAILS-3 items. If you are interested, please fill out the interest form by Monday, March 8: http://CTLSilhouette.wsu.edu/surveys/ZS98172 [posted 2 March 2010]

• Review of items in TRAILS-6 and TRAILS-9 is beginning. Please send us a note through the "Contact Us" link regarding any item you feel should be reviewed and possibly revised.[posted 11 Dec 2009]
• Both TRAILS-3 and TRAILS-12 assessments should be ready for use in Fall 2010.

Features now available in 2009-10

• TRAILS Benchmark Data for 2008-2009 school year can be viewed under "My Account". Benchmarks are presented for 9th-grade students who took Ninth Grade General Assessment 1 for states assessing at least 250 9th-grade students. [posted 3 Nov 2009]
• New option to download student codes (available in Create and Manage Sessions under "Reports")
• Now possible to download student % (also under "Reports")
• Remember we recommend you use the same assessment for pre- and post-testing. (General assessment #1 measures understanding; #2 measures application)
• "Choose all that apply" items replaced by single response items across all general assessments
• It was great meeting so many of you at AASL Exploratorium--it meant a lot to hear how you have been using TRAILS!

Have a great year, The TRAILS Team [posted 15 Sep 2009]