PowerBuddy—your AI-powered assistant—is here to help educators create and grade high-quality assessments within PowerSchool’s assessment, reporting, and data analytics solution, Performance Matters. Give educators the tools to improve assessment strategies to boost student outcomes throughout your organization.
Classrooms, schools, and districts use PowerBuddy for Assessment to:
- Streamline assessment creation - Generative AI in Performance Matters instantly builds questions, passages, and full tests.
- Expand access in non-core subjects - Create diverse item banks for subjects like CTE and world languages.
- Improve formative assessments - Tailor assessments for every learning stage.
- (NEW) Automate free-response grading with AI Rubric Scoring - Grade more quickly and consistently.
“Thanks to PowerSchool’s PowerBuddy for Assessment, we were able to save teachers’ time by decreasing how long it takes to create a standards-aligned assessment item by two-thirds!” says Kylene Schneider, Teacher, Colorado Springs School District 11.
Unlocking Better Assessment Strategies
K-12 educators can now improve assessment creation and scoring with AI from PowerBuddy for Assessment. PowerBuddy opens new avenues to understanding student progress by helping create differentiated content, rubric-based scoring, and overall instructional alignment.
"The Performance Matters AI Rubric Scoring was fast and easy to use, enabling teachers to efficiently grade student writing tasks using AI," says Lauren Hansell, SR Coordinator of District Assessments for Pinellas County Schools. "At the same time, the platform offered the flexibility for educators to adjust scores when they felt it was necessary. Teachers also found it helpful to review the AI’s scoring rationales to decide whether any adjustments were needed.”
With AI, educators save time, build consistency, and reveal new insights that help teachers focus on student progress.
Lake Local Schools in Ohio adopted Performance Matters almost a decade ago to centralize student data and is now integrating attendance and behavior data to support broader student needs within the platform. Today, with PowerBuddy for Assessment, they are generating high-quality questions with just a few inputs. The platform provides a diverse range of assessments that align with academic standards and offer multiple versions—all designed to save valuable instructional time.
When educators are empowered with smarter tools, their confidence grows—and with it, collaboration becomes seamless, and student support becomes more consistent.
From helping teachers score rubrics to giving leaders insights into student performance, assessment tools like Performance Matters with PowerBuddy for Assessment help data strategy become simple, practical, and impactful.
The outcome? Instruction becomes more personalized, strategies effectively close learning gaps, and every student gains more opportunities to thrive.
