Pearson Benchmark™
Pearson Benchmark is a comprehensive, customizable,
Web-based district-level formative assessment testing system and
reporting tool. Pearson Benchmark enables you to measure, manage, and maximize
student achievement through testing, reporting and analytics. It allows you to support a local formative assessment system,
taking multiple measures of student performance against standards
at any time throughout the school year.
Assess to Measure Achievement
For school districts across the country, Pearson Benchmark provides the next generation
in formative assessment capabilities. Its core set of capabilities allows educators to:
- Assess student progress against standards
quickly and accurately
- Take multiple measures of student performance against standards at any time
throughout the school year.
- Monitor student progress against standards, address deficiencies and recheck
mastery with student performance results collected over time.
- Target instruction and shorten assessment cycles, resulting in more effective
teaching delivery and enhanced student performance.
- Collect data to diagnose student learning needs and target instruction to
address those needs.
Complete Testing
Test creation and test administration processes are automated with powerful
tools for test-item authoring and user-friendly wizards to guide you through
test creation and assignment to student groups within and across your student
population.
Pearson Benchmark's open system allows you to align
local district requirements with state standards and continuously adjust
as needed.
Comprehensive Set of Assessment and Reporting Tools
Educators can support a comprehensive assessment system and access a wide
array of reporting and analytic capabilities, fulfilling NCLB/AYP requirements
while providing a comprehensive view of progress, from student to classroom
to school to district.
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Measure student performance continuously against state and district standards
throughout the school year.
- Create, deliver, score and report on standards-based district tests - online or offline.
- Maintain standards for all content areas,
grade levels and courses.
- Assign tests dynamically to students by class, course, grade level, school
or demographic characteristics.
- Apply a comprehensive suite of reporting and analytic tools to generate
evidence of student progress toward meeting district and state benchmarks
and standards.
- Customize your view of benchmark test results with "zoom in, zoom out" functionality.
- Monitor student progress and inform instructional decisions accordingly.
- Support prescriptive measures by addressing deficiencies and rechecking mastery.
Flexibility and Security
Because assessments can be structured to report results at any standard
tier level, a district-level test can report on a more global level of
the standards framework, while school-level assessments might report on
a more discrete level of the standards framework.
District- and school-level assessments can be secured, which prevents changes to the actual assessment and restricts changes to test results.
Tailored Testing and Posting
Students may take tests either online in a secure testing environment or on paper. Pearson Benchmark supports scanning tools, so for tests that are administered on paper, users can pre-slug the scan sheets on which students will record their test responses.
Raw score test results for both delivery modes, are available immediately. Additional
test results, including test scores
and mastery of standards, are prepared overnight for online analysis and
reporting.
Parental Involvement
Educators can generate reports that inform parents about their child’s
progress and that equip parents with the information they need to more
effectively help their child at home.
More Information
Your Formative Assessments Consultant can help you determine what formative assessment
products will suit the needs of your students as they are
learning and assist you in addressing school,
district, and/or state requirements.
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