From assessment to action, accelerating student growth district-wide

Balanced Assessment by Formative unifies district assessments and delivers real-time, standards-aligned insights, empowering leaders to evaluate initiatives, scale instruction and accelerate student growth.

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How does Balanced Assessment by Formative bridge instruction and assessment?

Instruction Made Seamless

Formative: One platform to instruct, assess, and adjust in real time.

  • Dynamic Daily Instruction: Create and deliver end-to-end lessons for any subject area using multimedia content and digitized worksheets.
  • Rigorous Classroom Assessments: Build everything from bell ringers to end-of-semester exams using 20+ tech-enhanced item types tagged to your standards.
  • Independent Practice: Boost student confidence with practice sets available in four engaging modes: flashcards, matching, writing, and quizzes.
  • Ongoing Collaboration: Simplify teamwork and align goals across departments by centralizing team libraries, tagging assessments to standards, and utilizing role-based dashboards that provide instant, scalable visibility into student progress and trends.
Rigorous, Aligned Assessments

Build, deliver, and secure high-quality assessments.

  • Comprehensive Item Bank: Access to thousands of high-quality items aligned to Common Core, NGSS, and state standards, filterable by Depth of Knowledge (DoK).
  • Common Assessment Support: Build centralized libraries of district-vetted assessments to ensure every school meets established achievement goals.
  • Effective Test Prep: Help students simulate state testing experiences through a library of formerly released questions.
  • Respondus LockDown Browser: Administer secure assessments by blocking application switching, screen captures, and printing with a single click.
Luna, Your AI Assistant

Luna supports educators every step of the way.

  • Luna Configuration Studio: Ensure rigor and consistency in AI-generated assessments by setting guardrails to align assessments with standards while leveraging the resulting data to guide teaching and district decisions.
  • Instant Content Creation: Chat with Luna to generate ready-to-use quizzes and activities from simple prompts or your existing PDFs.
  • Differentiated Support: Meet students in the moment with Luna-powered feedback, hints, and answer choice explanations that adapt to learner needs.
  • Luna Next Steps: Instantly analyze performance data to pinpoint gaps and automatically generate follow-up activities for immediate targeted support.
  • Real-Time Translations: Provide universal access for every learner with instant translation of activity text into 40 different languages.
Data to Action

Visibility across the instructional cycle.

  • Strategic District Oversight: Gain trusted, high-level data to evaluate the impact of district-wide initiatives and ensure every school is meeting established achievement goals.
  • Actionable Organizational Dashboards: Review instructional trends and monitor student progress through organization-wide dashboards that pinpoint specific teacher, class, or student needs.
  • Live Instructional Visibility: Monitor student thinking and performance in real time as they engage with assessments, allowing teachers to provide immediate support exactly when it is needed.

Complete Instructional Toolkit

Data-Informed Teaching

Ongoing Collaboration

Luna, Your AI Assistant

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Formative is ESSA Tier II research-backed

Students who use Formative regularly see improved achievement across subject areas, like:

75% Increase

in ELA achievement

9 percentiles

Higher on the FastBridge Math assessment

20-point

Increase in SAT scores

Success Stories

Awards and Recognition

Tech & Learning Honors Formative for Back to School 2025 Excellence

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EdTech Breakthrough Awards Test Prep Solution of the Year 2025

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What are educators saying about Formative?

“Students eagerly engage with Formative. The platform’s adaptability allows for immediate feedback or later review, enhancing learning.”
Head of Math Department
“Formative offers diverse assessment options, streamlining insight-sharing among teachers, and fostering seamless collaboration without formal meetings.”
Middle School Technology Coach
"Formative has made it easier for veteran teachers to share quality assessment materials with novice teachers. It immediately shows student gaps, guiding our instruction."
 Elementary Education Director

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