Pearson launched the newest update to Pearson Inform, its achievement data analysis and decision support tool for K-12 schools. Building on the product's robust support for identifying and monitoring intervention groups, the new feature allows educators to quickly and easily develop intervention plans for any group of students who need instruction outside of the regular academic program, such as remediation activities for struggling students or enrichment academics for gifted students.

    With its new Academic Intervention Plan feature, Pearson Inform 4.2 significantly expands its capabilities for planning individualized and group student instruction. When paired with a student information system, such as PowerSchool Premier, Pearson's innovative, award-winning, easy-to-use student information system, Pearson Inform, gives educators a quick view into individual student performance, enabling them to measure progress, plan for improvement, intervene when necessary and improve overall district and school performance.

    With this new feature, Pearson Inform now fully supports the Response to Intervention framework and helps school districts meet state and federal mandates and reporting requirements. Paired with PowerSchool Premier, the principal and district leaders can use Pearson Inform 4.2 to access student and class demographic information and get a summary analysis of current and historical school and classroom performance.

    With access to all student assessment and demographic data through these seamlessly integrated technology tools from Pearson, educators receive a comprehensive picture of what is happening with all of the students, based on multiple performance indicators, across the district or school, by classroom, and within an intervention or other student group. Based on this information, educators can determine the best intervention plans for students.

    With access to a wealth of student data, educators can develop individualized learning plans that include performance history, concept mastery status, intervention activity history, assignment of new intervention activities and programs, educator comments, targeted concepts and suggestions for parents. District leaders, principals and teachers can create and store Academic Intervention Plans, as well numerous other reports, analyzing multiple formative and summative assessment results by year, subject, grade, demographics and more.

    "Pearson is committed to developing intuitive and innovative solutions that help educators improve student achievement," said Mary McCaffrey, president of the School Systems group of Pearson. "When a school district implements Pearson Inform with PowerSchool Premier, educators will have a complete view of multiple sources of student data and can develop targeted plans to intervene or accelerate learning, putting all students on a course for academic success."

    Teachers can view the plans for individual students and make comments or add additional information that will be included with the Academic Intervention Plan in historical data and can be shared with other educators and parents. Once the plans are put into action, district leaders, principals, instructional specialists and teachers can monitor student progress in an intervention group, individually, in subsets, or as a whole.

    Pearson Inform provides class comparisons and school-wide performance with drill-down to students, concepts and standards for school improvement plans and actionable strategies. Pearson Inform also provides insight into district-wide performance from subject area to concept-level including state standards for performance analysis and curriculum revision.