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Quill Diagnostic
Quickly determine which skills your students need to work on with our diagnostic activities. The diagnostics cover vital sentence construction skills and generate personalized learning plans based on your students‘ performance.
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Student Responses Analyzed
Quill automatically analyzes and grades open-ended responses. It identifies the writing skills students have mastered, as well as the ones they need to practice.
Recommended Activities
You can then view a variety of reports to identify individual student and class-wide learning gaps. Quill generates a personalized learning plan for students based on where they need the most help.
Evidence Based
The diagnostics evaluate student writing using an evidence based strategy called sentence combining. This strategy explicitly teaches students how to write sophisticated, complex sentences.
What's Being Tested
The diagnostics cover fundamental areas of sentence structure, giving you insight into your students' ability to effectively create both basic and advanced sentences.
Subject-Verb Agreement
Capitalization
Compound Subjects, Objects, Predicates
Compound Sentences
Complex Sentences
Adjectives & Modifying Phrases
Parallel Structure
ELL Diagnostic
Our ELL Diagnostics assess your students' knowledge of a variety of concepts specifically chosen for English language learners. The diagnostic also offers directions in Spanish, Mandarin, French, Vietnamese, Arabic, Hindi, and 10 other languages. Learn more here.
Adjectives
Adverbs
Pronouns
Articles
Prepositions
Tenses
Modality
Gerunds vs. Infinitives
Uncountable Nouns
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Quill offers six diagnostics and four skills surveys to help gather baseline data on your students' writing. Click here for an overview of the grammar concepts covered on each assessment.
ELL Diagnostics Standards Alignment
Quill's Alignment with Standards for English Language Learners
Getting Started Video: Assigning a Quill Diagnostic and Diagnostic Recommendations
This video will guide you through assigning a Quill Diagnostic and Diagnostic Recommendations.
Getting Started Video: How to Assign a Growth Diagnostic
This video will guide you through assigning a Growth Diagnostic, understanding the student reports, and assigning the recommended practice.
"I have my students work on Quill for a minimum of 15 minutes every day. I’m seeing improvement in their daily work on exit tickets, essays, and short answer questions, as well as on their tests when they have to answer analytical questions"
Derralee Johnson, ELA teacher in Manor, Texas