TurningPoint - K-12 Education
Student Response Solutions – Proven Methods to Raise Student Achievement
Today's students are tomorrow's future. Ensure that your students can build a successful tomorrow by succeeding today. Turning Technologies' student response systems provide educators with the ability to actively engage students and easily assess student achievement – even the shy or non-participatory students. Simply ask a question and students respond using our durable easy-to-use ResponseCard keypads.
What Can You Do In Your Classroom Today That Will Have An Immediate Positive Impact?
Use Turning Technologies' student response systems for formative assessment and frequent progress monitoring in order to promote data driven differentiated instruction and to meet the learning needs of each of your students. Our technology is the ideal tool to implement educational and pedagogical best practices effectively. Research proves that student response can result in 15 point gains in student achievement.
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TouchPoints for Education
Find your way through the challenges of AYP and No Child Left Behind with Turning Technologies' new comprehensive K-12 assessment solution—TouchPoints™ for Education. The following software components are included in the TouchPoints for Education solution:
- QuestionPoint™ — 30,000 High Quality Assessment Items
- TurningPoint 2008® — Interactive PowerPoint Software, Ideal for Formative Assessment and Integrated with State Standards
- TestingPoint™ — Self-Paced Testing Software 100% Native to Word, Perfect for Formative Assessment
- Open Architecture - TurningPoint student response systems integrate effectively with gradebook software and learning management systems including Blackboard and WebCT.
- VantagePoint™ (Sold Separately) — Analytics and Data Assessment Management System
Learn more about TouchPoints for Education.
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Interactive Student Response Systems
Easily conduct multiple assessments, track student learning, and engage your entire class with a TurningPoint student response system. With this cutting edge student response technology, teachers can create interactive PowerPoint® presentations that collect real-time responses from students, and quickly assess students' achievement toward state standards. With 100% PowerPoint® integration, TurningPoint delivers immediate interactive response functionality to students and teachers. Using this powerful student response system, teachers can evaluate the collective understanding of the entire class, conduct formative assessments, and track individual student learning at the point of instruction. TurningPoint interactive questions can be used for assigning participation points, grading tests, as well as tracking student performance against "No Child Left Behind" standards. Educators can also create and run reports for virtually all of their classroom needs; from individual student participation scores to entire classroom results.
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Turn Student Potential into Success
TurningPoint is a powerful student response tool for schools that engages students and encourages success. Students in classrooms that integrate interactive content questions into TurningPoint presentations feel more involved in the learning process - encouraging consistent, day-after-day participation throughout the entire curriculum. The result of integrating TurningPoint into the classroom is each student's voice is heard and no one is left behind!
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What makes TurningPoint different from other student response systems?
TurningPoint student polling systems integrate 100% into Microsoft® PowerPoint - giving you the capability to author, deliver, assess and report without ever leaving PowerPoint. TurningPoint Anywhere also provides an easy-to-use solution to non-PowerPoint based content. TurningPoint's unique design allows it to seamlessly operate with leading hardware and education content solutions providers like Glencoe McGraw-Hill, and other standard productivity tools such as Word, Excel, Blackboard, and WebCT. The result is TurningPoint, the most powerful student response system available, boasting maximum functionality with a minimal learning curve.
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Student Wireless ResponseCards (student "clickers")
TurningPoint is a technology for schools that was created to provide maximum system flexibility and scalability - matching the unique needs of your specific assessment and testing objectives. Schools with PC or Mac labs, mobile carts, or PDAs may want to explore the power of TurningPoint's vPad, an input application that installs directly onto a variety of hardware platforms. Educators that want to take advantage of the functionality of self-paced testing can use ResponseCard XR.
Find the student ResponseCard that's perfect for your classroom environment.
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