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To help educators assess students' understanding of concepts and track standards mastery, Instructure provides the Mastery Item Bank designed to guide instruction at the district and classroom levels. The Mastery Item Bank includes 98,000 standards-based items that allow educators to quickly measure student performance.

The Leaders in Item Quality

The rigorous, multi-step item development process used by Instructure is a proven method for deveoping and maintaining items of the highest quality.

  • Experienced item writers, subject matter experts, and content editors who adhere to industry best practices and follow the principles of universal design
  • Stringent item writing guidelines
  • Items are wrritten and/or aligned to the most appropriate standards
  • Quality checks built into each step of the process
  • A minimum of five rounds of review per item for style, consistency, grammar, accuracy, bias, and sensitivity

Item Standards

The items in the Mastery Item Bank have been written and/or aligned to an array of standards, including:

  • Common Core State Standards, including state-specific versions
  • Next Generation Science Standards, including state-specific versions
  • State Standards for all 50 states and Washington D.C.

Item Types

Innovative items and the most up-to-date standard alignments, curated by the Instructure team of subject-matter experts.

  • Multiple Choice
  • Constructed Reponse
  • Writing Prompts
  • Choice Multiple
  • Matrix
  • Gap Match
  • Graphic Gap Match
  • Hot Spot and Hot Text
  • Inline Choice
  • Ordered
  • Graphing
  • Text Entry