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Measure achievement of Spanish-speaking adults
ABLE is appropriate for use with adults in a variety of adult education programs, including Tech Prep programs, GED programs, and adult literacy programs. The content is appropriate for adults and accommodates the non-reader.
Simplify your RTI implementation.
Aprenda 3 measures the academic achievement of K-12 Spanish-speaking students in their native language. Modeled after its companion English-language test, the Stanford Achievement Test Series, Tenth Edition (Stanford 10), and developed with Latino educators, Aprenda 3 is the highest quality, most culturally inclusive Spanish-language test of academic standards.
Assessment Academy makes it possible for you to interact with experts, connect with other educators, or acquire the tools, skills and confidence to use assessments and assessment results to improve teaching and learning. Training modules are available to support the Pearson assessments listed below.
The Basic Achievement Skills Individual Screener (BASIS) will help you quickly screen children's reading, mathematics, and spelling skills. BASIS yields both criterion-referenced and norm-referenced information and features an optional 10-minute descriptive writing exercise. All basic test items in reading, mathematics, and spelling are grouped in grade-referenced clusters.
Vocational interest and skills inventory with career planner for college-bound or college-educated individuals.
The Career Interest Inventory (CII) is a career-guidance instrument designed to provide information about students' educational goals, interest in a variety of school subjects and school-related activities, and interest in fields of work. This information helps students explore educational and occupational alternatives, learn about careers, and set goals for the future. The Career Interest Inventory was standardized with the Differential Aptitude Tests®, Fifth Edition (DAT®), providing students' aptitude and interest comparisons when the two tests are given together.
Dynamic Assessments in Language Arts and Mathematics for children in PreK through Grade 3
The Differential Aptitude Tests®, Fifth Edition (DAT®), provides a valid and reliable assessment tool for course and career selection. It measures students' abilities in verbal reasoning, language usage, numerical reasoning, mechanical reasoning, and space relations. The Counselor's Report, available from combined administration of DAT and the Career Interest Inventory, provides an effective starting point for career discussion with counselors, parents, and students. Level 1 is primarily for students in grades 7 through 9; Level 2 is primarily for students in grades 10 through 12 and adults. Both levels can be used with basic adult education, community college, vocational/technical, and correctional programs.
An individually administered test of oral reading ability
GRADE is a valid and reliable group administered diagnostic reading assessment (with links to powerful remediation series for interventions and companion assessments) that provides both individual and group results. It helps determine developmentally what reading skills students from Pre-K through 12 have mastered and where they need instruction or intervention using a four step process – Assess, Analyze, Intervene and Reassess.
Learning power for the classroom
Identify a students’ mastery of syntactic structures
Combines real-world content with cutting-edge design, and reporting information that provides educators and parents with action strategies.
Assess skills that contribute to school success in young children
The Metropolitan Readiness Tests®, Sixth Edition (MRT®), provides a reliable measure for validating and expanding on what teachers know about the children in their classrooms. With colorful test materials and a Big Book used to assess story comprehension, MRT6 offers a child-friendly standardized assessment.
Does the graduate school you are applying to accept MAT scores? As a reasonably priced test administered in 60 minutes, the MAT represents an excellent option for candidates applying to any of the hundreds of graduate programs that accept MAT scores for admission.
The My Voice Surveys and supporting materials and services based on the Eight Conditions That Make a Difference help students achieve their full potential by ensuring that a supportive school environment is in place for them to reach their goals.
Use the Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test®-Individual Administration (NNAT®-Individual) to assess general reasoning ability in children and adolescents. The NNAT-Individual is a companion to the NNAT-Multilevel Form and is the revision of the Matrix Analogies Test-Expanded Form (MAT-Expanded Form).
Bright, attractive, and engaging, the Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test ®-Multilevel Form (NNAT®-Multilevel Form) provides a group-administered measure of nonverbal reasoning and problem solving that is independent of educational curricula and children's cultural or language background.
Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test (second edition)—NNAT2 uses progressive matrices to allow for a culturally neutral evaluation of students’ nonverbal reasoning and general problem-solving ability, regardless of the individual student’s primary language, education, culture or socioeconomic background.
The Orleans-Hanna Algebra Prognosis Test, Third Edition, confirms teachers’ opinions about students’ readiness for algebra. Problem-solving items reflect NCLB Standards. Consistent with the Algebra Curriculum Problem-solving items reflect the algebra curriculum. The items cover algebraic topics such as exponents, integers, and algebraic expressions. Lessons include graphs and charts for students to use in problem solving. A sixth lesson review assesses general middle-school mathematics objectives.
OLSAT 8 has new norms achieved through representative standardization samples. Furthermore, specialized statistical procedures and a comprehensive review of all test items by a panel of minority-group educators helped minimize ethnic, gender, cultural, or regional bias on the new OLSAT.
Measure instructional effectiveness in reading, writing, algebra, and mathemactics using PASeries progress and diagnositc assessments with scientifically based year-end achievement forecasts.
Create, deliver, and score custom assessments focused on specific standards and learning objectives using Pearson Benchmark for complete district- and site-level assessment.
Simplify the process of measuring progress, targeting areas for improvement, and informing decisions with powerful graphsand charts from Pearson Inform.
The Pharmacy College Admission Test (PCAT), an exam developed by PsychCorp, a brand of Pearson is a specialized test that helps identify qualified applicants to pharmacy colleges.
Bringing the dropout crisis into focus
The innovative online delivery of Stanford Achievement Test, the standard of excellence in achievement testing for over 80 years, is now available with the ease and automation of online testing and timeliness of immediate scoring and reporting.
The Standard Of Excellence in achievement testing for 80 years, the Stanford Achievement Test Series now offers a state-of-the-art Tenth Edition to measure student progress toward high academic standards. The Stanford 10 multiple-choice assessment will help educators find out what students know and are able to do. Administrators will obtain reliable data to evaluate progress toward meeting content standards and high expectations. Teachers will identify and help children who are at risk of being left behind. Parents will understand what their children know and can do and how they can help.
Measure Performance on Standards
Quickly identify students who have difficulty with mathematics
The Stanford Diagnostic Mathematics Test, Fourth Edition (SDMT 4), measures competence in the basic concepts and skills that are prerequisite to success in mathematics, while emphasizing problem-solving and problem-solving strategies. SDMT 4 identifies specific areas of difficulty for each student so that teachers can plan appropriate intervention. Designed to be group administered, SDMT 4 provides both multiple-choice and optional free response assessment formats. Students select and apply problem-solving strategies and use their reasoning and communication skills.
Determine math strengths and needs quickly online
A shortened version of the valid and reliable Stanford Diagnostic Reading Test, Fourth Edition (SDRT 4), is now available to help teachers quickly determine which students need additional assessment and instruction in reading.
The Stanford Diagnostic Reading Test, Fourth Edition (SDRT 4), provides group- administered diagnostic assessment of the essential components of reading in order to determine students' strengths and needs. SDRT 4 includes detailed coverage of reading skills, including many easy questions, so teachers can better assess students struggling with reading and plan instruction appropriately.
Quickly determine reading strengths and needs online
The Stanford English Language Proficiency Test (Stanford ELP) reflects all aspects necessary for comprehensive, standards-based assessment of English language proficiency. Developed by ESL experts, this research-based test evaluates the listening, reading, comprehension, writing, and speaking skills of K-12 English Language Learners with the goal of guiding them to full participation in English language classrooms.
Pearson developed Stanford Reading First in response to the Reading First initiative of No Child Left Behind. This valid, reliable test meets all the Reading First requirements for an outcome measure.
Adopt the Test Designed to Meet NCLB Requirements
Measure students’ writing through a direct assessment
Objectively and quickly assess English speaking skills to accurately place students or monitor their progress in your ESL or EFL programs. You can also assess your visiting professors or teaching assistants to ensure they have the spoken English language skills they need to effectively work with students.
Use pictorial inventory to assist all individuals with career choices
Build your students' reading comprehension and writing skills with WriteToLearn, an online instructional and assessment tool that gives students immediate, targeted feedback.