The KAP Balanced Assessment System cultivates learning by providing actionable information to educators and students. It incorporates classroom-based, interim, and summative assessments and offers a revitalized reporting suite to provide ongoing feedback on student progress.
The KAP Balanced Assessment System provides assessment opportunities, data, and insights that support educators and advance student outcomes —
Inform instructional planning
Designing effective lessons and units centered on Kansas learning standards.
Collaborate with colleagues
Identifying school-wide trends and developing targeted interventions.
Monitor student progress
Tracking student growth over time and identifying where additional support is needed.
Individualize instruction
Tailoring teaching strategies to the unique needs of each student.
Facilitate important student discussions
Helping students to better understand their own learning patterns, set goals, and take pride in their accomplishments.
Foster a culture of continuous improvement
Helping students celebrate progress and helping educators set goals and identify professional learning needs.
Data aligned with instructional topics
The KAP Balanced Assessment System's revitalized reporting suite, we are ensuring multiple measures of specific learning targets scoped and sequenced by the local curriculum. Data flexibly reported at the cluster and topic level helps teachers focus instruction on the most important skills and knowledge for their specific classrooms.
Instructional
Mini Tests
Focus on Student Learning
Build student confidence and stamina in answering assessment items while gaining insight into student learning. With our enhanced Instructional Mini Tests, teachers can build small, classroom-based assessments aligned to Kansas standards that provide data about student growth and learning.
Building, assigning, and administering mini tests has never been easier! Use the new KAP Instructional Mini Test Guide and get started today!
What's New in 2024–25?
Mini Tests have been transformed for 2025 and include math, English language arts, and now Science! Not only have we expanded the offerings to provide a broader range of content, the Instructional Mini Tests themselves are:
- Restructured to align to standards/clusters in topical groupings.
- Named clearly so teachers can select targeted topics.
- Enhanced with metadata such as Lexile measure, text complexity, and standard alignment.
New Instructional Mini Tests will be released every 2 – 3 weeks!
Incorporate Mini Tests in classroom instruction
- Choose among available Mini Tests in Educator Portal.
- Build custom tests that reflect classroom instruction.
- Explore a variety of reporting options to help gauge student learning and facilitate instructional planning.
For Instructional Mini Test resources and further information, visit our interim page.
Interim
Featured interim content is coming soon. Check back in mid October for more information.
Looking for interim resources? Check out our interim page.
Summative
Featured summative content is coming soon. Check back in March of 2025 for more information.
Looking for summative resources? Check out our summative page.