• how your student stacks up against thousands of other students around the country?
• which of your state's standards she is ready to learn?
• how well she is likely to do on a high-stakes test?
• how to find appropriate learning materials for her?

The Homeschool Buyers Co-op is pleased to offer a powerful new assessment tool that can accurately and authoritatively answer those questions for you. It's called A+LearningLink, and it is being made available to Co-op members by American Education Corporation and GL Assessment, a world-wide leader in online assessment.

A Simple, Easy, Affordable & Definitive Assessment

A+LearningLink is a new, state-of-the-art online assessment tool that -- accurately measures your student's current Lexile® and Quantile® scores, provides a detailed profile of her strengths and weaknesses relative to state standards, and shows you your student's math and reading skill against a norm-referenced national group of approximately 15,000 students around the United States. Click the sample reports below for a detailed understanding of the what you get when you order an A+LearningLink Assessment through the Co-op:

How Does It Work?

In order to give members access to this authoritative assessment tool, the Co-op has agreed to purchase and administer a school subscription to A+LearningLink. To protect your confidentiality, the Co-op will NOT share personally identifiable information with anyone. (Please see "Privacy" under the offer "Terms & Conditions" for details.)

Here's the overall process:

1. Place your order on the next page.
2. Allow 3 business days for the Co-op to configure the A-LearningLink system for your student(s).
3. We will post the information your student needs to take the tests in your Co-op account, and notify you by email when that information is available.
4. Have your student take the math pre test and the reading pre test right away.

   (Notes: We recommend you take post tests at the END of your homeschool semester or homeschool year in order to measure progress over an adequate period of time. A+LearningLink recommends an interval of at least 3 months. You can take each test only once.)

5. The Co-op will generate your student's test results the following Wednesday. We will publish links to the results in your Co-op account, and notify you by email when that happens. You should then sign into your Co-op account and click the link you see there to get the results.

Interested?  Here's What You Do:

1. Get more information about A+LearningLink:
   • Review the materials on the A+LearningLink website
   • Take a sample of a level two math test.
   • Read a sample reading assessment report.
   • Read a sample math assessment report.
   • Carefully read all the information on this page.
2. Please be an informed consumer and carefully read the Terms & Conditions. The T&Cs tell you everything you need to know about this offer. By placing an order, you are agreeing to the T&Cs. Please do not use the Comments field to request changes to the T&Cs.
3. Complete the order form on the next page. Note: The Co-op will charge a service fee of $7.50 to help cover our costs of processing your order and administering the tests.
4. Don't keep this offer a secret -- tell your friends and homeschool groups!

   A+ and A+LearningLink are registered trademarks of American Education Corporation.
   Lexile and Quantile are registered trademarks of MetaMetrics, Inc.