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Naiku is a balanced assessment system that educators use to improve student achievement. Our collaborative and analysis features provide rich information to teachers and schools while promoting student success.

Naiku is a “classroom-tough” test, quiz and formative assessment platform. Naiku increases student achievement because of improved student engagement and teacher collaboration. Instructional and curriculum decisions are made with real-time information rather than months-old data.

Teachers find the platform easy to use and most can create their first quiz in about 5 minutes. Students find the mobile and computer based testing interface engaging. Keep reading!

Balanced assessment is a term for an “entire system” of assessments. It strives to meet the needs of state-government policy makers, district administrators, teachers, parents and the community at large.

Naiku’s assessment tools make creating, administering and taking assessments painless (and according to some students, “more fun!”), making it possible to provide the right information to the right stakeholder at the right time. With Naiku districts are finally providing stakeholders with timely and effective achievement data.

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For the past decade, assessment in the K-12 space has focused on establishing accountability through summative assessments given by the states. Until recently, tools to efficiently run assessments at the classroom and district level did not exist. The data required make effective decisions a these levels was too difficult to gather.

Naiku is a best-in-class tool (with mobile, real-time scoring, etc.) that provides teachers and districts the information they need to make effective instructional and curriculum decisions.

Read more about Summative Assessment, and Naiku’s Summative Assessment Features.

Formative assessment is a powerful tool for improving student achievement. Research shows that achievement gains of 15 to 25 percentile points.

With Naiku, teachers:

focus and adjust their classroom instruction practices to better meet student learning needs
make the learning process more engaging for students
help students establish ownership for learning
help to focus and improve communication between students and teachers

Read more about Formative Assessment.
Read more about Naiku’s Formative Assessment Features.

Remember when mom told you to share? She was on to something.

Naiku supports “teacher teams” and Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) by facilitating sharing of tests, quizzes and instructional best practices.

Read more about Naiku’s Common Assessment and Collaboration features.

Students thrive when they are engaged in learning. They want to be active learners. Today’s Digital Natives use technology in every aspect of their lives. When we don’t connect with students the way they learn, we’re missing our opportunity to be effective teachers.

We built a robust assessment platform that can run on any device. If you can access the Internet, you can use Naiku. Students can take their assessments on a laptop, a desktop, a netbook, a mobile tablet such the iPad, or whatever mobile devices are available.

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