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Pacific Metrics offers online assessment and delivery systems and software to state departments of education and other organizations that utilize large-scale formative and summative assessments. We provide psychometric, technology, and content services including test development, administration, automated scoring, reporting, policy consulting, and standard-setting.
(Link: Pacific Metrics Corporation)

Each child has a unique learning profile. Our mission is to equip educators with key insights to unlock those profiles and help every student achieve success. Typical tests or “summative assessments” can only tell you whether a child has answered a question correctly or incorrectly. Like a ruler, such tests can only measure how much a child’s learning has grown; they can do nothing to help it grow further. In contrast, our formative assessments do much more than merely measure each child’s scores. Our questions provide targeted hints or “scaffolding” to help a child master a concept that he or she is on the verge of learning. Our assessments are grounded in decades of research and designed to enrich the educational experience for children at all levels.
We believe educators deserve to have the best tools at their disposal to help nurture and develop each child’s potential. This is why we provide detailed reports and recommended instructional activities with our assessments.
(Link: Children’s Progress – insights for educators. success for students.)

Children’s Progress’s Business Model: Children’s Progress develops computer-based assessment tests and reporting tools for use in grade schools.
(Link: Children’s Progress — Education)