Pat's comments on the "Prichard Blog" article

I want to point out that Study Island is a tool that ~400 Kentucky schools currently use to help meet the goals Rick Stiggins writes about. This web-based program continuously provides evidence about individual students needed for classroom learning decisions.
It also provides data on which standards are being mastered, allows quick and easy snapshots of sub-groups of student populations on a “periodic but frequent” basis (in fact 24/7/365) to enhance program planning at the school and district level requires.

Study Island allows teachers to show each student clear expectations, help each student make steady progress toward those standards, and (in the process) break the cycle of growing despair that currently leads many students to stop trying when the goals seem both mysterious and out of reach.

About half of the schools in our new Kentucky Commissioner of Education, Dr. Terry Holliday's, former school district in North Carolina used Study Island.