DnA empowers educators with flexible, standards-based assessments and actionable insights to drive instruction and district decisions.
ACCELERATE STANDARDS MASTERY FOR ALL LEARNERS
Enhance teaching and learning with formative practices
From the classroom to the district office, gain clarity into where students are in their learning to guide instructional practices and improve learning outcomes.
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Meet Renaissance DnA
Know the right instructional next step to take
An in-depth look at standards-based assessment creation and reporting
Continually move learning forward for every student with clarity into which standards students have already mastered and where reteaching is needed.
Connect assessment to instruction with standards-based assessment creation
Use our high-quality standards-based assessment content to build assessments tightly aligned to your scope and sequence—or customize any of our prebuilt assessments—for authentic, information-rich data on student learning.
Deeply understand mastery with standards-based assessment reports
Gain instant visibility into standards mastery from many lenses: by district, school, grade, or class; by standard across many assessments; by individual item; and more.
Visualize trends across assessments with custom reporting
Use custom reporting to easily triangulate data across multiple DnA assessments alongside other imported assessment data (e.g., Star, FastBridge, and third-party data) for more holistic insights into student performance.
Easily target feedback to specific student misconceptions
Instant results include distractor rationales and rich metadata, equipping teachers to confidently and accurately address specific learning disconnects through in-the-moment feedback.
Instruct and assess with live proctoring
Use this interactive and engaging feature to support standards-based instruction, easily spin up and administer a quick check on learning, and guide reteaching in the moment.
Build the perfect assessment with item creation
Easily author your own items and passages to augment our existing item bank, and use your created items for online or paper/pencil assessment administrations.
Answer key questions across stakeholders
Discover how DnA streamlines standards-based assessment and accelerates learning through actionable, information-rich reporting for all stakeholders.

Inform instruction and resource allocation, and drive equitable outcomes
Aggregate and disaggregate data to inform district and school-level instruction, curriculum, and resource decisions and drive conversations about equity and effectiveness throughout the year.

Use standards-based assessment data to maximize impactful instructional strategies
Utilize teacher-friendly reporting with embedded guiding questions to bolster PLC conversations and gain clarity into effective instructional strategies.

Unlock assessment as learning
Gather instant formative feedback mid-lesson to check student understanding, inform how to pace and plan the next lesson, and guide differentiated and personalized learning.

Help students take ownership of their learning
Share immediate feedback to help students understand their strengths, identify what they’ve already learned, and know which standards to focus on next.
How it works
Create
Use our prebuilt assessments or easily create your own. Utilize our valid, reliable, and standards-based item bank for any assessment.
Instruct and access
Use items to teach and then to assess. Choose from multiple assessment methods: paper/pencil, online, or a combination.
Report
Get instant prebuilt or custom reporting for every teacher-based and district-created assessment. Explore results by standard, item, and more and dig into metadata for deeper insights.
Move learning forward
Accurately understand learning for every student and drive instruction based on data. Maximize instruction with continuous insights into standards mastery.
DnA Assessment types
Utilize high-quality Inspect content and item creation
Utilize our highest-quality item bank to easily create assessments aligned to the appropriate standards, DOK, and passage Lexile®—or use your own items. Our Inspect content provides standards-based items and prebuilt assessments across ELA, math, science (NGSS, Georgia, and Virginia), and history.
70,000+
ELA and math items
19+
Item types
600+
Prebuilt assessments
3,200+
K–12 NGSS Items

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CODiE Awards finalist for the best content authoring development or curation solution
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Product Sheet
Inform Instruction and Accelerate Standards Mastery with DnA
Learn how DnA can help you ensure success for all students

District Leader Overview
Assessment Types and Reports
See how DnA’s standards-based assessments and actionable reports accelerate learning
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