- Cleveland Metropolitan School District
- New Teacher Handbook
Performance Matters
Intro to Performance Matters:
Performance Matters is a unified platform for student assessments (formative and comprehensive), assessment analysis, and reporting. It collects and organizes all student data in one integrated platform, giving educators and administrators a holistic view of individualized student growth within every classroom and school building across our district. The goal is for staff to have easy access to data and assessment tools needed to design and deliver personalized instruction to meet the needs of students within their learning environments. Performance Matters was designed to make your life easier, so you can focus on what is more important – the students and teaching!
Some features of Performance Matters include:
- Hundres of pre-made assessments per grade level.
- Comprehensive list of all District made assessments available HERE.
- Available for all tested Subjects: ELA, Math, Science, Social Studies.
- Assessments included: Pre, Post, Short Cycle, Unit/Benchmark, Practice Ohio State Tests/Checkpoints.
- For non-tested subjects: other CMSD teacher created public tests and thousands of pre-made questions aligned to Ohio’s New Learning Standards to choose from.
- Secure Assessment Delivery available in digital as well as paper format.
- Digital Scoring of Assessments.
- Variety of comprehensive Assessment Analysis Reports and secure sharing options are available.
- Ability for staff to create own assessments (or individual test questions) linked to Item Attributes (Content Standards, Depth of Knowledge, Difficulty, Taxonomy, etc.)
- Assessment sample questions also available!
Ready to learn more?
- District Help Videos & How to Guides available HERE.
- PowerSchool Help Video Resources available within Performance Matters.
- On your “MyDashboard” select News & Assignments
- This opens Training Videos/Tutorials. Majority are brief 3-5 minutes.
- Once logged into Performance Matters (Login instructions below!)
- District Support: Feel free to contact Shawn Hallowell, Manager, Assessment and Analytics System with any questions or concerns.
How to access Performance Matters (two options):
Option 1: Via Cleveland Metropolitan Schools website:
- Type in the URL: https://www.clevelandmetroschools.org/
- Click on Staff
- Select Clever from the menu
- Login to your Clever Account
- Search/Select the Performance Matters icon:
Option 2: Via your CMSD email:
- Log into your assigned CMSD Outlook email – LastName@clevelandmetroschools.org
- Click the “Applications Tray” (nine dots in the upper left-hand corner).
- Select the Clever
- Select the Performance Matters icon, found under District Resources