What is a Passage Quiz?
Passage Quizzes allow students to practice their skills in the context of a high-interest, multi-paragraph passage. Each Passage Quiz prompts students to evaluate and correct a 3-5 paragraph text. This is a great way to assess mastery of a concept after students have completed a related skills practice exercise.
Assigning a Passage Quiz
Passage Quizzes usually target a specific skill (such as verb tense or commonly confused words). You can also choose to assess your students on ACT® and SAT® Mixed Skill Review Passages, which include a variety of highly-tested language skills in one assignment.
You can also create your own custom Passage Quiz by selecting the topics you'd like to assess students on. Take a look at this article to learn how to assign a Passage Quiz to students!
Student experience
During the assignment, students will click on different segments of text to make corrections to errors that appear throughout the passage. After submitting their answers, students are required to complete a remediation exercise to correct misconceptions before the assignment is considered complete.
You can read this article to learn more about the students' experience during a Passage Quiz!
View Passage Quiz results
Similar to our Quizzes, Passage Quizzes are graded automatically. Your student’s performance will appear on the Results page after completing the assignment and required remediation.
For more information, be sure to check out this article on how to view your Quiz results!
Best practices and tips
- Assign a Passage Quiz as a culminating assignment after students complete a related skills practice exercise. If you want the passage to follow a practice assignment, make the start date of the passage begin after the practice due date.
- Use the highly engaging passages as a starting point for additional assignments. Try asking students to react or think further about the passage’s topic in a follow-up Quick Write, or consider prompting students to conduct additional research on the subject.
- Leverage NoRedInk’s ACT® or SAT® mixed skill review passages (available with Premium). While assessing the skills most commonly assessed on the SAT and ACT, these passages can also be useful for all high school students because they provide a mixed review of a variety of skills.