Pearson Assessment & Information
Encyclopedia
The Assessment & Information group of Pearson is a division of Pearson Education
, a business of Pearson PLC
. The group is a provider of assessment and education data management services.
and Chancery SMS. Both are web-based student information system
s for K-12 schools
. These two products, along with state reporting systems, legacy products like SASI, and others, make up School Systems, a part of Pearson's Assessment & Information group.
PowerSchool, a company of 160 employees, was acquired in March 2001 by Apple Inc. Apple then sold it to Pearson Education in April 2006.
ChancerySMS was acquired a month later, with the deal closing in May 2006.
in May 2007. The Harcourt Assessment business was merged into the Assessment & Information group in January 2008 after a review by the U.S. Department of Justice was completed.
Group President & CEO, Assessment & Information (Nov. 2003–present)
KJ Singh
Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Software and Technology Services
Robin Brophy
Vice President, Marketing Services
Mike Carlson
Senior Vice President, Education Technology Services
Steve Curtis
President, Data Solutions
M. (Margaret) Darlene Feldick
Vice President, Human Resources
Paul D. Fletcher
President, School Systems
William P. Gorth
President, Evaluation Systems
Jim Hummer
Senior Vice President,
Organizational Quality
Darice Keating
President, State Services
Kathleen A. Minette
Senior Vice President,
Operations and Scoring
Shilpi Niyogi
Executive Vice President of Strategy and Business Development, National Services
Aurelio Prifitera
President & CEO, Clinical Assessment/Worldwide
Lynn Streeter
President, Knowledge Technologies
Bhadresh A. Sutaria
Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Jon S. Twing
Executive Vice President,
Test, Measurement & Research Services
Pearson Education
Pearson Education is an international educational publishing and technology company providing textbooks and other educational material, such as multimedia learning tools...
, a business of Pearson PLC
Pearson PLC
Pearson plc is a global media and education company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is both the largest education company and the largest book publisher in the world, with consumer imprints including Penguin, Dorling Kindersley and Ladybird...
. The group is a provider of assessment and education data management services.
Businesses
Pearson’s U.S. Assessments & Testing Group was renamed the Assessment & Information group in 2007. As of July 2011, the Assessment & Information group was organized around eight businesses:- National Services: Serving the U.S. federal government and national non-profit organizations involved in educational assessment and education reform (cf. National Assessment of Educational ProgressNational Assessment of Educational ProgressThe National Assessment of Educational Progress is the largest continuing and nationally representative assessment of what our nation’s students know and can do in core subjects. NAEP is a congressionally mandated project administered by the National Center for Education Statistics , within the ...
) - State Services: Serving state education agencies in the fifty states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico with outsourced K–12 educational assessment and data management services
- Educational Assessment: Serving U.S. K–12 parents, educators, teachers and students with educational assessment and data management services for schools and local education agencies (cf. Stanford Achievement Test SeriesStanford Achievement Test SeriesThe current Stanford Achievement Test Series, usually referred to simply as the "SAT 10", is considered the benchmark of excellence in standardized achievement tests utilized by school districts in the United States for assessing children from kindergarten through high school. First published in...
) - Evaluation Systems: Serving teacher preparation and credentialing agencies with licensing examinations and related services. Pearson entered the teacher certification licensure testing market in 2006 with the acquisition of National Evaluation Systems.
- Clinical Assessment: Serving the global market for psychological, speech and language, and special needs assessments, for early childhood, for Response to Intervention, for talent assessment, in educational, clinical, government and corporate markets under the PsychCorp brand (formerly known as The Psychological Corporation)
- School Systems: Student information systems and data analysis solutions that impact school and district performance
- Edustructures: Enterprise solutions for managing and synchronizing education data systems with solutions based on the standard for interoperability in education, the Schools Interoperability FrameworkSchools Interoperability FrameworkThe Schools Interoperability Framework, Systems Interoperability Framework , or SIF, is a data sharing open specification for academic institutions from kindergarten through twelfth grade...
(SIF). Acquired by Pearson in 2007. - Knowledge Technologies: Innovative technologies for automatically evaluating oral and written languages (cf. Latent semantic analysisLatent semantic analysisLatent semantic analysis is a technique in natural language processing, in particular in vectorial semantics, of analyzing relationships between a set of documents and the terms they contain by producing a set of concepts related to the documents and terms. LSA assumes that words that are close...
). Acquired by Pearson in 2004.
School Systems
In 2006, Pearson acquired PowerSchoolPowerSchool
PowerSchool is a student information system product of Pearson's Assessment & Information group.-History:PowerSchool was purchased by Apple Inc. on March 13, 2001....
and Chancery SMS. Both are web-based student information system
Student information system
A student info system is a software application for education establishments to manage student data. Student information systems provide capabilities for entering student test and other assessment scores through an electronic grade book, building student schedules, tracking student attendance, and...
s for K-12 schools
K-12
K–12 is a designation for the sum of primary and secondary education. It is used in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand where P–12 is also commonly used...
. These two products, along with state reporting systems, legacy products like SASI, and others, make up School Systems, a part of Pearson's Assessment & Information group.
PowerSchool, a company of 160 employees, was acquired in March 2001 by Apple Inc. Apple then sold it to Pearson Education in April 2006.
ChancerySMS was acquired a month later, with the deal closing in May 2006.
Harcourt Assessment acquisition
Pearson announced the acquisition of Harcourt AssessmentHarcourt Assessment
Harcourt Assessment was a company that published and distributed educational and psychological assessment tools and therapy resources and provided educational assessment and data management services for national, state, district and local assessments...
in May 2007. The Harcourt Assessment business was merged into the Assessment & Information group in January 2008 after a review by the U.S. Department of Justice was completed.
Leadership
Doug KubachGroup President & CEO, Assessment & Information (Nov. 2003–present)
KJ Singh
Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Software and Technology Services
Robin Brophy
Vice President, Marketing Services
Mike Carlson
Senior Vice President, Education Technology Services
Steve Curtis
President, Data Solutions
M. (Margaret) Darlene Feldick
Vice President, Human Resources
Paul D. Fletcher
President, School Systems
William P. Gorth
President, Evaluation Systems
Jim Hummer
Senior Vice President,
Organizational Quality
Darice Keating
President, State Services
Kathleen A. Minette
Senior Vice President,
Operations and Scoring
Shilpi Niyogi
Executive Vice President of Strategy and Business Development, National Services
Aurelio Prifitera
President & CEO, Clinical Assessment/Worldwide
Lynn Streeter
President, Knowledge Technologies
Bhadresh A. Sutaria
Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Jon S. Twing
Executive Vice President,
Test, Measurement & Research Services