Overview
Empowering Educators, Enriching Student Performance
Instruction followed by assessment is a familiar educational path. Perspective™ completes the loop by linking assessment results to follow-up instruction. With Perspective's suite of web-based services – Learning Locator™, Interactive Study Guides, and Understand Scoring – teachers and families are better equipped to understand and capitalize on assessment results.
Perspective’s services are designed for:
- Teachers and families who want remediation and enrichment resources specific to each learner’s skill level and learning style.
- Students who have grown up with technology and want media-based learning experiences.
- Educators who want the convenience of professional development opportunities that are accessible any time, anywhere.
Additional Features of Perspective:
- Assignment Sheets: Teachers can select learning resources and assign them to one or more students – ideal for homework, absences, remediation, and differentiated student groups.
- Online calculators: Convenient access to four-function, scientific, and graphing calculators.
- Test building tool: Teachers can select and organize items from a bank of items, including state-released test items, with an answer key.
- Supporting materials: Professional development articles, lesson plans, guides for literature, and other educational aids.
Learning Locator
State testing results are in, and every child has received a personalized Student Report. Next to the score for each subject is a Learning Locator – a passport to enhanced learning. Teachers, parents, and students can simply go to the Perspective website and enter the Learning Locator. They'll receive instant access to games, worksheets, instructional videos, and a raft of other materials specific to the student's needs and aligned to Common Core or state-specific standards. Learning Locator is a web-based service that offers a media-rich learning experience ideal for today's tech-savvy students.
Perspective's resource website is engaging and intuitive.
Interactive Study Guides
Each child's Student Report gives their scores for the tests, including a breakdown of their performance on specific skills and whether they're working at expected levels for their grade. Now is the time to bridge any gaps by providing additional learning opportunities from Perspective. With a click of the mouse, you can choose Interactive Study Guides from the Perspective website. Study Guide activities can be teacher-led or performed independently. The Study Guides also help parents to participate actively in their student's learning.
Interactive Study Guides are available in English and Spanish.
Understand Scoring
Perspective offers professional development that's ready when you are. Give your teachers an enriched understanding of state writing assessments and constructed response scoring with Understand Scoring, a flexible, affordable alternative to on-site workshops in a convenient online format. Understand Scoring is a web-based service that lets teachers work at their own pace, from any computer, and can be configured to meet the specific needs of a state or large district. Developed by the assessment experts at Pearson, Understand Scoring provides clear, reliable instruction with extensive practice opportunities, immediate feedback, and learning verification activities.
Perspective's Understand Scoring service allows educators to practice scoring on authentic student papers.
