Acuity (by CTB/McGraw-Hill) includes Predictive, Instructionally Targeted, and Item Bank Assessments. Predictive Assessments simulate New York State Tests and measure student growth. Instructionally Targeted Assessments (Its) were designed with New York City educators to measure skills commonly taught within a specific instructional period, and may be further customized by individual schools. The Item Bank may be used by educators at any time to build assessments or create classroom assignments.

Access

Acuity (from a DOE computer)

Acuity (from home)

Customized Instructionally Targeted Assessments (CITAs)

CITAs are assessments designed by school-based educators in Acuity to measure student mastery of skills recently taught in English or math classes. Visit the CITA page for key documents and more information.

Key Documents and Events

Visit the Assessment Memos page for assessment administration information.

Visit the Professional Development  page to sign up for live sessions and view recorded webinars.

Technical Support

You can contact CTB Acuity by phone at 866-NYC-6550 or by e-mail.

School Based Scanning  

Acuity assessments can be scanned locally using either and Optical Mark Reader(OMR) scanner or an image based scanner. For more information about these scanning options, please review the resources below or email periodicassessment@schools.nyc.gov.
 
Optical Mark Reader Scanning
 
Image Based Scanning