The DEMI 
Assessment

An asset-based approach to understanding
your students' mathematical thinking.
An asset-based approach to understanding your students' mathematical thinking.

What Is Asset-Based Assessment?

Advocacy, Not Judgment

Asset-based assessments are designed to be used as a tool for advocacy for students, rather than a source of judgment of students.

Why Is This Important?

Assessment data as a tool for advocacy helps to support all students to grow from where they are now, rather hold them back.

Evidence, Not Assumptions
Why Is This Important?

Focusing on evidence opens more doors for students, and avoids assuming they cannot succeed in rigorous mathematics.

Asset-based assessments aim to document evidence of what students can do, rather than make assumptions about what they cannot do.

What Is The DEMI?

While modernizing your math assessment practices is a complex and long-term project, Math ANEX has developed an easy and impactful way to get started — The DEMI.

DEMI: District Essential Mathematics Indicators Assessment
Grade-Level Assessment
Available for Grades 3-12
  • The DEMI is a short assessment that looks beyond correct/incorrect answers, by eliciting evidence of how students think about essential math concepts.

    Typically administered twice per year, the DEMI captures an asset-based snapshot of where your students are and provides insights to help inform instruction in the classroom.

    Measuring Ways of Thinking also serves as a more sensitive metric for growth than only looking at correct vs. incorrect responses. The DEMI has thus proven to be impactful in guiding school-wide and district-wide planning.
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What Makes The DEMI Different?

Traditional Assessment

  • Focuses on student deficits

  • Solely scores correct/incorrect

  • Costs significant instructional time

  • Difficult to act on the data

  • On your own to interpret results

    Requires significant
    instruction time

The DEMI

  • Highlights student assets to build on

  • Allows us to analyze student thinking

  • Only takes ~30 minutes

  • Designed to elicit helpful info for teachers

  • System of expert guidance & PL

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Why Use The DEMI?

Why Use Math ANEX Assessments?

More Actionable Data for teachers

By analyzing student thinking, we gain insight into how students are approaching topics and can help teachers provide targeted support.

More Accurate Growth Metric

Capturing students' ways of thinking provides a more nuanced way to measure growth than solely relying on correct/incorrect answers.

Preserve More Instructional Time

Get richer student data with fewer questions. The DEMI takes about 30 minutes and the Math ANEX team does all the scoring.

Predictive Of State Test Scores

Get a reliable picture of where your students are in relation to state tests and identify high-leverage points that can boost those scores.

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DEMI Results:
Assessment Data Teachers Can Actually Use

DEMI Results:
Assessment Data
Teachers Can Actually Use

Reports designed
for actionability.

The DEMI reports are designed specifically to help teachers take action based on their students' mathematical thinking. Teachers receive an item-by-item overview, with the most impactful items to focus on highlighted at the top of the report.

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Understand your students' thinking
and take action.

Teachers can view reports for each assessment item. Here they can see why the item was included, explore how their students approached the concept, and access the re-engagement activity recommended based on their students' unique ways of thinking.

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Understand your students' thinking and take action.

Teachers can view reports for each assessment item. Here they can see why the item was included, explore how their students approached the concept, and access the re-engagement activity recommended based on their students' unique ways of thinking.

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See the way of thinking behind each student response.

While traditional assessments only look at answers as correct or incorrect, our team spends time analyzing responses to determine how students arrived at their answers. By looking beyond correctness, we get a fuller picture of where students are and how to best support them.

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