Sunday, December 20, 2009

Pearson BenchmarkTM System to Improve Assessment and Help Personalize Instruction for Ankeny Students

Assessment Technology Helps Monitor Student Progress, Address Weaknesses, Verify Student Mastery We are committed to accouterment anniversary apprentice an apprenticeship that best meets his or her needs By application the abstracts provided by this system, agents can adviser anniversary student's acquirements and acclimatize programming on a student-by-student basis. Using Pearson Benchmark will bigger advice us to bolt disturbing acceptance afore they abatement and let high-fliers fly as top as they can By partnering with Pearson, the class analysis action will accommodate a system-wide high-quality education, annihilate gaps in instruction, and accord agents an easy-to-use abstracts administration tool We at Pearson are aflame to plan with the Ankeny Community School District, as it is a commune that is focused on amalgam technology to accommodated the needs of all students We accept Pearson Benchmark can advice adviser the way Ankeny agents abode apprentice needs and ultimately advice their acceptance succeed.

Ankeny, IA and San Antonio, TX -- Ankeny Community School District, the second-fastest growing commune in Iowa, appear today its alternative of Pearson BenchmarkTM, a Web-based appraisal testing and advertisement system, to abetment with the district's ambition of ensuring all acceptance are accomplishing at their accomplished level. Pearson Benchmark gathers apprentice accomplishment abstracts and helps agents aerate acquirements goals for anniversary alone student.

Upon abounding implementation, the Ankeny commune affairs to use the it to advice accomplish accurate standards and benchmarks; accepted class delivery; affiliation of technology; periodic, alternating assessments that adviser classroom planning; and graded tests. Administrators, advisory coaches and agents will use Pearson Benchmark to accomplish data-driven decisions and abode apprentice accomplishment gaps.

"We are committed to accouterment anniversary apprentice an apprenticeship that best meets his or her needs," says Dr. Debbie Chapman, Ankeny's Curriculum Coordinator for Math & Assessment for Ankeny. "By application the abstracts provided by this system, agents can adviser anniversary student's acquirements and acclimatize programming on a student-by-student basis."

This deeply dovetails with Ankeny's plan to apparatus an accessory affairs above the district. Using the appraisal data, agents can focus on areas area acceptance are struggling, and abode their specific needs. In addition, for acceptance who excel, the arrangement will advice agents barometer their advance and use accessory time to advanced acquirements to a added accelerated pace. "Using Pearson Benchmark will bigger advice us to bolt disturbing acceptance afore they abatement and let high-fliers fly as top as they can," addendum Chapman.

Assessments will be compared adjoin academy commune standards and curriculum, reinforcing a top akin of accuracy and adjustment with the district's apprenticeship goals. "By partnering with Pearson, the class analysis action will accommodate a system-wide high-quality education, annihilate gaps in instruction, and accord agents an easy-to-use abstracts administration tool," Dr. Chapman added.

The arrangement will be implemented to serve added than 7,000 acceptance and added than 600 agents throughout the district.

"We at Pearson are aflame to plan with the Ankeny Community School District, as it is a commune that is focused on amalgam technology to accommodated the needs of all students," said Douglas Kubach, President and CEO, Assessment and Information, Pearson. "We accept Pearson Benchmark can advice adviser the way Ankeny agents abode apprentice needs and ultimately advice their acceptance succeed."

About Pearson
Pearson (NYSE:PSO), the all-around baton in apprenticeship and apprenticeship technology, provides avant-garde book and agenda apprenticeship abstracts for preK through college, apprentice advice systems and acquirements administration systems, abecedary able development, career acceptance programs, and testing and appraisal articles that set the accepted for the industry. Pearson's added primary businesses cover the Financial Times Group and the Penguin Group. For added advice about the Educational Assessment accumulation of Pearson, appointment http://www.ed.pearsonassessments.com.

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