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About Grady Profile

The real purpose of assessment is to help kids learn. The Grady Profile engages students in learning by showing their performances, encouraging their reflection and providing them feedback. It gives teachers a framework for managing alternative assessment.

Watch progress; enhance conferencing with students and parents; give students a medium where they can both present and evaluate their own work. Learning consists of constructing meaning, typically through doing and reflecting. Growth is not possible unless the student can make connections, internalize previous experience and gain insight that provides the possibility for extending understanding.

What is Grady Profile?

In short, Grady Profile is software with two purposes:

1. It helps classroom teachers (preK - college) manage the assessment models for performance assessment, authentic assessment, project-based, standards-based assessment, collaborative and cooperative learning and portfolios.
2. It is a learning tool for students and teachers (we believe teachers are learners, too) because it asks them to think about their work, assess it honestly, reflect on it and connect it to their previous and future learning experiences.

Grady Profile offers these benefits:

• It saves teacher time and classroom space in managing portfolio materials.
• It organizes portfolios electronically with dates and titles so you can find specific items easily.
• It lets you collect examples of student work in digital format:
  • Sounds — music, foreign language, speaking, ESL, LEP, interviews, role-playing…
  • Oral Reading — a special type of sound recording that combines the reading with the material being read
  • Graphics — writing, drawing, diagrams, graphs, digital photos…
  • Video — presentations, 3D art, performing arts, group work…
  • Text — imported from a word processor or manually entered
  • External Files — work from any computer program students use
  • Web Pages — for student-generated web content
• It lets you compare samples of a student's work over time to assess progress.
• It provides a place for students to self-assess and reflect on their work.
• It allows you to record student progress against classroom, school, district, or national benchmarks.
• It includes tools to help you customize the content and structure of your students profiles to match your curriculum.
• It generates reports in several formats.

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Looking Deeper into Grady Profile

There is a lot of information about Grady Profile on this web site:

• To view examples of Grady Profile portfolios,
  • see Portfolios in the Elementary Grades.
  • see Portfolios in Middle and High School.
  • see Portfolios in Teacher Education.
  • see Portfolios in Special Education.
  • see Toot! for an example of a personal portfolio.
• For a fuller discussion of the features and capabilities of Grady Profile, look at The Features Page.
• Grady Profile is actually a suite of four application programs. To learn more about them, see The Application Suite.

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System Requirements

	Macintosh	Windows
System Requirements	Mac OS X Mac OS 9	Windows XP Windows 2000NT
Peripheral Equipment	Microphones (may be built-in) Digital cameras Scanners Video cameras