Pearson TELL vs LearnPlatform for Schools

Pearson’s TELL is a self-delivered online language proficiency assessment for students in grades K-12. TELL consists of a single screener, two diagnostic, and eight progress monitoring assessments that are administered throughout the course of an academic school year. The results from TELL provide schools and districts with a complete understanding of their students’ current language proficiency and allows them to measure their progression. This robust reporting that also helps inform instructional decisions. With minimal set-up time, students can begin testing. During test administration, students watch video clips and interact with pictures and words on a tablet, then answer questions out loud. They listen, write, read, and speak—all with no mark-ups or grading by teachers. Short, effective testing allows users to monitor student progress on the development of core English language skills necessary for learning academic content. TELL’s unique items types allow for measuring multiple skills in a single item. TELL’s innovative speech recognition and writing evaluation technology yields highly reliable scored but also means that results are available in minutes! TELL scores are provided at the Overall level, for the four foundational skills (listening, reading, writing and speaking), and for the following sub-skills : pronunciation, fluency, grammar, vocabulary, reading comprehension, reading rate, expressiveness, and pre-literacy.

LearnPlatform provides school administrators an easy way to measure student engagement with EdTech products. Manage Your EdTech. Organize, Streamline and Analyze to Improve Outcomes. LearnPlatform for Schools, part of LearnPlatform, allows administrators to access insights on the EdTech products their students are using on iOS devices. LearnPlatform for Schools should only be installed as part of a school or district initiative. This app is not designed or intended for individual student use outside of a school or district.