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Customized to the unique needs of your school division


What is the HCS Toolkit?

School divisions can purchase an annual subscription to access the Hampton City Schools Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment Headquarters (CIA HQ), which includes our PreK-12 curriculum documents, pacing guides, curriculum assessments, and other instructional resources). These resources are housed and maintained on an HCS Google domain using Google Sites and are frequently updated, even during the school year. Divisions that subscribe to this service will have the opportunity to use the HCS curriculum or to access the curriculum to use portions of the HCS platform as a resource. 

Current Subscription Offerings 

Curriculum Package Subscription Options

Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment Package

Add On Packages (Special Education and SEL)

Add On Packages


HCS Assessment Question Banks Subscription Options

HCS curriculum leaders and teacher specialists have created high-quality formative and summative assessment items that are tightly aligned with the Virginia Department of Education’s Standards of Learning. These assessments are deployed via the web-based online assessment platform Mastery Connect. Mastery Connect is the solution HCS uses to administer assessments in an online environment. Divisions interested in accessing HCS assessment items, to include pre-constructed benchmark assessments, will need to enter into a separate agreement with Mastery Connect. The types of assessment items available in the banks include, but are not limited to: multiple choice, short answer, drag and drop, multiple response, matching, cloze text, hotspot, order list, graph plotting, and extended text response.     


Divisions will have the opportunity to purchase access to two question banks: one that houses teacher-facing questions and one that contains HCS secure benchmark assessment items. For those divisions who also subscribe to the HCS curriculum package, the teacher-facing question bank contains the formative and summative assessment items that are embedded within the HCS curriculum as direct links to these pre-constructed assessments. These assessments are wide in scope and title to include: checks for understanding, common assessments, Power Quizzes, Decathlons, and checkpoint quizzes. Additionally, all assessment items in the teacher-facing question bank may be duplicated and edited for division use.     


It is to be noted that the assessment items in the benchmark item bank are secure items that are only accessible and created by division-level staff, for test-security purposes. Divisions who subscribe to Mastery Connect and purchase the benchmark item bank may decide to administer HCS versions of these assessments or to have their division-level staff use this secure question bank to design their own division assessments. The HCS benchmark assessment items are aligned with the cognitive level, rigor, and design of the Virginia Standards of Learning associated with the grade level or content area course frameworks. Information related to which pre-constructed HCS benchmark assessments are available through this bank can be found in the bulleted list below. Additionally, semester exams (for EOC courses), while housed in the benchmark item bank, are formative in nature and made available to teachers for a brief window in advance of the exam administration to prepare study resources to guide pacing and planning. 


Both the teacher-facing question bank and the benchmark item bank are “live” banks, meaning that they will continue to be updated throughout the school year and evolve over time. Divisions who purchase these banks through Mastery Connect will have immediate access to new and revised question items. Additionally, the difficulty level as well as the level of Bloom’s taxonomy has been identified for the majority of the assessment items in both banks.   

HCS Quarterly Benchmark Assessments (Word Version) Subscription Options

HCS administers quarterly benchmark assessments (known as Critical Skills Assessments). These high quality assessments, which are aligned with the Virginia Department of Education’s Curriculum Framework Documents, provide valuable student achievement data that can be used for both formative and summative decision-making purposes. In HCS, these assessments are deployed via the web-based online assessment platform Mastery Connect. For divisions interested in accessing these assessments without subscribing to Mastery Connect, HCS makes available a Word version of our benchmark assessments.   


Divisions opting for this package are permitted to edit HCS assessments for division use during the period of the subscription, but may not use HCS assessment items beyond the scope of the subscription unless permission has been granted by HCS.  

  

These assessments are aligned with the cognitive level, rigor, and design of the Standards of Learning associated with the grade level or content area course frameworks. HCS quarterly benchmark assessments are available in the following content/grade level/course areas:

Student Achievement Data Analytics and Subscription Options

For divisions who subscribe to Mastery Connect, data reports are available through the product platform. For divisions interested in the creation of additional custom reports (i.e., student performance by question reports by teacher for quarterly benchmark assessments), the HCS Student Achievement Data Analytics package is available. With this package, divisions have the option to rely on HCS to create these custom reports (Package A) or to have HCS staff to train their division staff to create these reports and serve as a resource for support beyond the initial training (Package B).



Package A

The reports detailed below can be purchased separately or combined. Some of the reports require that divisions provide HCS with CSV files from their benchmark test administrations. Also included at no additional expense, reports can account for disaggregated data by student groups (i.e., students with disabilities, racial groups) for those divisions interested in providing additional student information fields through the CSV file.  


These reports are delivered in a custom interface via a Google site that is constructed solely for your school division and accessible to your school administrators and select central office staff. A sample screenshot of the homepage of this interface is noted on the next page. 

  





Package B

An HCS staff member will be responsible for training your division staff (up to three individuals and conducted virtually) on how to create the Quarterly Pass Rates and Quarterly Student Performance by Question Reports noted above. This Package includes 8 hours of training that can be spread throughout the school year at the division’s discretion and a calculation template for the Quarterly Student Performance by Question Report. This allocation of hours will be more than sufficient to train division staff.  For divisions interested in additional hours, virtual training can be secured at the rate of $125 per hour. HCS will provide quotes for divisions interested in onsite training. 

Non Academic Data Analytic Subscription Options

The custom report below provides divisions with a detailed breakdown of student attendance that is used to identify students in need of support as well as predict/project each school’s likelihood of meeting Virginia’s School Quality Indicator for student attendance. 


Package A


Package B

An HCS staff member will be responsible for training your division staff (up to three individuals and conducted virtually) on how to create the report noted above. This package includes 4 hours of training that can be spread throughout the school year at the division’s discretion. This allocation of hours will be more than sufficient to train division staff.   



Full Menu of Options

The custom report below provides divisions with a detailed breakdown of student attendance that is used to identify students in need of support as well as predict/project each school’s likelihood of meeting Virginia’s School Quality Indicator for student attendance. 


Package A


Package B

An HCS staff member will be responsible for training your division staff (up to three individuals and conducted virtually) on how to create the report noted above. This package includes 4 hours of training that can be spread throughout the school year at the division’s discretion. This allocation of hours will be more than sufficient to train division staff.     



Have more Questions?

Contact 

Gary Skeen, Virtual Partnership Specialist 

for an individualized Proposal for the needs of your division

gskeen@hampton.k12.va.us

(757)727-8665