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Questionmark Europe Expands with New Offices
in Belgium; New Headquarters Helps Testing and Assessment Provider Respond to Growth in European Market
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TUBIZE, Belgium----Questionmark, the
world's leading provider of testing and
assessment software, today
announced that the company's Questionmark Europe division has
relocated
its headquarters to accommodate recent growth."
New contact details for the Questionmark Europe are:
Questionmark Europe
Parc d'Activites Economiques
Avenue Leon Champagne, 2
B - 1480 Tubize
(Saintes)
Belgium
Tel: +32 (0)2 398 02 01
Fax: +32 (0)2 398 02 00
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Headquartered
in Belgium, Questionmark Europe provides businesses,
governmental organizations and academic institutions
with the world's
leading software for creating, delivering and managing surveys,
quizzes, tests
and exams. The company's flagship product,
Questionmark(TM) Perception(TM), is available in Dutch
, French,
German, English, Spanish and Japanese.
Developed initially for grades 3 through 8, PASeries
assessments
are scientifically valid, reliable and research-based benchmark tests.valid brightest
The assessments
can be
accurately and efficiently scored using any Pearson OpScan(R) scanner,
including the OpScan
iNSIGHT(TM) 4 scanner and the OpScan 4U scanner,
available from Pearson NCS.
PASeries tests are
designed for completion in one class period and for
delivery either on paper or online with quick
electronic reporting of
results at the student, class, district and state levels. PASeries
Mathematics
assessments include a screening test for placement, six
progress monitoring tests for each grade
and diagnostic tests by
strand with item analysis reports.tests board
Some 2,000 businesses, government
agencies
and educational institutions in more than 50 countries use
Perception.
Scanners from
Pearson NCS can also support other classroom tests,
surveys and administrative applications, allowing
schools and
districts to maximize their investments.by james
questionmark.Scanner Solutions Now Available
for Pearson PASeries
The first
two products, PASeries Reading and PASeries Mathematics, use the
scientific Lexile(R) scale for reading measurement and its new
companion Quantile(R) scale for
mathematics to evaluate student
progress.Academic criticisms of standardized testing as a valid educational
tool.
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IOWA CITY, Iowa----
Paper Formative
Assessment Testing Made Easier at Classroom and
District Levels
Pearson
Education today announced scanner solutions for
PASeries(TM) (Progress Assessment Series(TM)), allowing
schools and
districts to more easily score the scientifically valid formative
assessments when
administered on paper.reference board
"We want all schools and districts to be able to use PASeries
assessments
to measure and monitor student achievement toward progress
goals, regardless of whether they are
testing students online or on
paper," said Douglas Kubach, president and CEO of Pearson Educational
Measurement, the developers of PASeries.
For more information about PASeries for states and districts
,
visit www.com
About Pearson Education
Educating 100 million people worldwide, Pearson
Education is the
global leader in educational publishing.opposing fallows
Questionmark Europe Sales Manager Peter
Elen commented: "We're
pleased that our new headquarters will help Questionmark Europe
accommodate
our recent expansion, meet the needs of our growing
customer base, and better position us to meet
current and emerging
assessment management needs in this market. In addition to the Questionmark
Europe, the company has
offices in London, England and Stamford, Connecticut.reference board
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With
throughput of
1,500-8,000 forms per hour, these scanners offer an accurate, flexible
and reliable
way to score PASeries tests and other assessments. The names of other companies and
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(NYSE:PSO)(LSE:PSON), the international media company, whose other
primary operations include the
Financial Times Group and the Penguin
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Each PASeries Reading assessment includes a screening
test for
placement and three progress monitoring tests for each grade.S.tool tests
Questionmark Perception
allows people to create question
files without programming experience or knowledge of HTML.
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Powerful
reports help instructors track individual and class performance and
provide diagnostic information
that can be used to improve both
instruction and assessments. With brands such as Pearson
Prentice
Hall, Pearson Scott Foresman, Pearson Educational
Measurement, Pearson NCS, Pearson Digital Learning
, Pearson School
Systems, Pearson Learning Group, LessonLab, and many others, Pearson
Education
provides quality content, assessment tools and educational
services in all available media, spanning
the learning curve from
birth through college and beyond.educational reference
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