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Meet our newest team members
We are excited about adding Adam and Kaleb to our talented team of engineers, who have a love for education and developing technology to improve it. These new hires signal growth for our company and a need for additional product development to help our clients...
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Consistency in Grading Practices
Anya Derr is a former middle school and high school English teacher and has a Masters Degree in education. Before joining MZD, she...
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The Importance of Evaluating Student Writing
Daisy Vickers began her career in performance assessment after teaching both high school and college English. In her first job with Harcourt,...
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Reflections on MZD’s Partnership with NWEA and Louisiana
Zac Henrich is CEO and Co-founder of MZD. He is an experienced senior leader and proven product development expert in the education...
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MZD Awarded SOC 2 Compliance
See our recent press release highlighting the announcement that MZD has successfully completed our 2019 SOC 2 Type 1 examination. SOC 2 compliance is a component of the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) Service Organization Control reporting platform and is intended...
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MZD Year in Review
Zac Henrich is CEO and Co-founder of MZD. He is an experienced senior leader and proven product development expert in the education...
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ADAM’s latest release makes it easier than ever to create and administer district-wide assessments
MZD's partnership with NWEA and the Louisiana Department of Education has been a catalyst for a collection of new features and functionality that make ADAM – our Assessment Delivery and Management Platform – even more useful for district-wide assessment...
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MZD White Paper on the Power of Performance Assessment
MZD has prepared a white paper on the Power of Performance Assessments. This documents provides a perspective and highlights the benefits of performance assessments and the many advantages they represent when incorporated into existing assessment practices....
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MZD, NWEA & Louisiana Department of Education ESSA Partnership
See our recent press release highlighting the announcement that MZD has been selected to partner with NWEA and the Louisiana Department of Education to provide item authoring, test delivery, performance scoring and reporting solutions for the first-ever innovative...
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MZ Development & Michigan Assessment Consortium Press Release
See our recent press release highlighting our partnership with the Michigan Assessment Consortium (MAC) and the release of OSCAR Classroom, our collaborate teacher performance assessment management, scoring & reporting platform. Used in conjunction with the...