Pearson Continues to Help Higher Education Institutions Get Grants

Thursday, December 3, 2009 - 16:49 | By: Becky Anderson | Category: Press

Your great idea needs funding and we at Pearson want to help connect you with the funds that you need to support your great ideas! Check out Pearson’s Grant Help Site to explore available grants, see how to match your needs with theirs, and learn the best ways to present your proposal. For more information, go to www.pearsonhighered.com/granthelp .

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Changing the Equation: Redesigning Developmental Math

Thursday, December 3, 2009 - 16:42 | By: Becky Anderson | Category: Press

On December 1, the National Center for Academic Transformation (NCAT) launched a major new program, sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, to engage the nation's community colleges in a successful redesign of their remedial/developmental math sequences. Its goal is to improve student learning outcomes in remedial/developmental math while reducing costs for both students and institutions using NCATs proven redesign methodology.

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New Features for Winter 2010

Wednesday, December 2, 2009 - 16:34 | By: Becky Anderson | Category: Product Updates

New Features as of December 2009

Gradebook

Item Analysis for Pooled Tests and Quizzes
On tests and quizzes that use pooled questions, instructors now have item-level student performance statistics. This will allow them to analyze how the class and individual students performed by test question and objective and also gauge the relative difficulty of questions from the same pool.

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