For the Screener assessments, each of your students will see a variety of test questions as each assessment adapts to his or her learning zone. There will be overlap in assessment questions seen by students, but there will also be differences in sequence and difficulty.

The Screener assessments are computer adaptive test that uses a question bank of over 5,000 questions. During an assessment, Track My Progress chooses the next question's difficulty based on how well the student answered the previous questions.

For example, if a student answers three medium questions correctly, the test will give more medium and hard questions and fewer easy ones. However, if a student answers the medium questions incorrectly, the student will see fewer medium questions and more easy questions. This helps explain the differences between one student's test to the other.

By comparison, the Diagnostic assessments are not adaptive. The Diagnostic assessments are a completely pre-scripted sequence of grade-level assessment questions. Students taking the same grade level Diagnostic assessment in the same test window will see the same sequence of assessment questions.