Our Classroom Assessment Scoring System® (CLASS), the leading quality improvement system for teaching, helps you focus, measure and improve classroom interactions — a key factor proven to drive children’s academic and life-long success.
CLASS not only defines teaching quality through the lens of interactions, it provides the ability to measure and improve the interactions that matter most for student outcomes. And, it’s a journey of continuous improvement that is data-driven and focused on what matters most for student outcomes, interactions.
As you implement CLASS, you will:
Over 200 research studies prove children in classrooms with higher CLASS scores demonstrate better social-emotional, cognitive, and academic outcomes.
With a focus on research-based, developmentally appropriate interactions, CLASS is used across all ages, all classroom settings, and alongside any curriculum.
CLASS is the only assessment system that provides teachers the research-proven insights, skills, and strategies they need to improve interactions, the most critical component of their teaching practices.
Our CLASS online platform, myTeachstone, streamlines the data collection, coaching, and professional development processes, making it easier than ever to improve teacher-student interactions.
There is a reason CLASS is the leader in QRIS and the Office of Head Start’s chosen quality assessment tool — it works.
“Of the five individual quality indicators (typically in QRIS systems), the CLASS measure of teacher-child interaction quality consistently was the strongest predictor of children’s learning”
– Science, https://science.sciencemag.org/content/341/6148/845/tab-pdf