March Update

A host of new additions and resources were added to Perspective in March. To take advantage of these new resources, point your browser to:

http://PerspectiveForEducators.com

o New Reading resources; over 150 new grade 5 and 6 Reading resources have been added from Scott Foresman.

o New High School Literature Teacher’s Guides added from Penguin USA and Signet Classics. Through and agreement with Penguin USA, Perspective is now able to provide over 70 Teacher’s guides to Shakespeare and other classic titles.

o More math videos from the videomathtutor.com have been added for grade 8. Additional video will follow throughout the spring.

o User guides now available. New Educator and Family user guides are available. The user guides provide step-by-step direction on how to use the areas of the site.


o White Paper now available; the paper covers development methodology, Learning Locator computation, and provides an in-depth look into the science behind the Learning Locator and Perspective services. To view the white paper Perspective Integrated Assessment and Instructional Resources System visit:

http://www.pearsonedmeasurement.com/downloads/white/Perspective_wp0801.pdf

Look for more exciting changes in April as we extend our Professional Development resources through a new agreement with Allyn & Bacon / Merrill one of the leading publishers of professional development titles.

New White Paper Available

Well, our venerable Psychometric crew has done it again; producing a comprehensive white paper on Perspective. The paper covers development methodology, Learning Locator computation, and provides an in-depth look into the science behind the Learning Locator and Perspective services. To view the white paper Integrated Assessment and Instructional Resources System, click here.

To view other white papers by our research scientists, click here.

As always, visit here often for the latest updates!

Some Interesting Site Stats

I went into the stat counter software today and pulled the following:

30.5% of the users in the last 30 days spent from 20min to over an hour on the site. 19.4% of those users spent over an hour on the site.

In the last 30 days we have had 5,215 first time visitors to the Educator site and 4,330 first time visitors to the Family site.

Our busiest day in the last 30 days was Wed. February 20th with 1,432 page loads from 1,353 unique visitors.

Between the two sites we have averaged about 154 new visitors a day for the last 30 days.

So it seems that the word is getting out there and people are starting to use the site. I'll be sure to include more stats in the next e-mail update.