Cambium Assessment Receives Ed-Fi Assessment Outcomes API for Data Standard Suite 3 Certification

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Cambium Assessment, Inc., a Cambium Learning Group brand and the leading provider of innovative digital assessments for K-12 in more than half of U.S. states, announced it has completed all requirements for the Ed-Fi Assessment Outcomes API for Data Standard Suite 3 Certification. This certification showcases Cambium Assessment's commitment to meeting API and data mapping standards, outlined by the Ed-Fi Alliance, to ensure educator and student success. During the 2023-2024 school year alone, Cambium Assessment administered 124.2 million online tests, including formative, interim, summative, progress monitoring and through-year assessments.

Obtaining this certification enables seamless data sharing in education, ensuring accurate data, smooth integration with tools, and compliance with local and state rules. By adhering to the Ed-Fi Data Standard, Cambium Assessment can reduce data silos among different educational entities, creating a cohesive technology environment and providing educators with a succinct way to help their students succeed.

“As educators work tirelessly to ensure student success, we hope to make their jobs a little easier by providing a way for data to be seamlessly transferred between systems through our adhesion to the Ed-Fi Data Standard,” said Steve Kromer, president of Cambium Assessment. “The opportunity to inform instruction and critical decision-making with high-quality standards-aligned outcome data is vital to student success. I’m very proud of my team for the work they’ve done to ensure these standards are met, providing us with the opportunity to support educators behind the scenes.”

“Cambium Assessment’s dedication to achieving this certification speaks to their commitment to accuracy, integration, and setting new standards for educational data excellence,” said Sean Casey, director of vendor partnerships, Ed-Fi Alliance.

About Cambium Assessment

Cambium Assessment is the clear market leader pushing the boundaries of psychometrics, standards-based adaptive assessments and technology innovations. Our continuum of capabilities and services has enabled numerous states and education consortia to transition from paper-pencil testing and into online-assessment systems almost instantaneously. In the 2023-2024 school year alone, we delivered more than 124 million tests to over a third of the nation’s public school students in 27 states and jurisdictions. All of these tests were processed with the rapid scoring and reporting turnaround essential for educators to identify their students’ strengths and needs promptly.

Cambium Assessment is a part of Cambium Learning Group, the education essentials company. Across all areas of our organization, we deliver technology solutions and services that emphasize the elements that are most essential to education’s success: simplicity, certainty and now.

About Cambium Learning Group

Cambium Learning Group is the education essentials company, providing award-winning education technology and services for K-12 educators and students. With an intentional collection of respected global brands, Cambium serves as a leader, helping millions of educators and students feel more seen, valued, and supported every day. In everything it does, the company focuses on the elements that are most essential to the success of education, delivering simpler, more certain solutions that make a meaningful difference right now.

To learn more, visit www.cambiumlearning.com or follow Cambium on Facebook, LinkedIn, and X. The Cambium family of brands includes: Cambium Assessment, Lexia, Learning A-Z, ExploreLearning, and Time4Learning.

About Ed-Fi Alliance

The Ed-Fi Alliance is a non-profit bringing together educators and technology providers to ensure K-12 systems deliver actionable insights for student success. We aim to drive nationwide adoption of the Ed-Fi Data Standard, enabling secure data exchange that empowers educators to support students and classrooms more effectively.

To date, the Ed-Fi Alliance has reached 8 million students across 4,000 school districts in 18 states. To learn more about the Ed-Fi Alliance, the Ed-Fi Data Standard, and its technology suite, visit www.edfi.org.