Pearson Longman
and Prosper™ for Shining Star

Pearson Longman and Pearson Assessments have collaborated to provide ELL teachers a comprehensive technology tool to support Pearson Longman's 6 - 12 ELL curriculum, Shining Star. The tool, Prosper for Shining Star, provides teachers a test scoring system specifically tailored for the Shining Star Assessment Guides.

Testing made simple.

Developed to accelerate English language acquisition, Prosper for Shining Star is a customized tool that delivers powerful support to educators who use Shining Star’s standards-based curriculum from Pearson Longman. Using the latest proven technologies, Prosper for Shining Star streamlines the testing process which is integral to the Shining Star program.  It divides teaching and learning into clearly structured levels with assessment guides that measure competency at each level.

Prosper for Shining Star helps teachers administer, score and analyze tests quickly and conveniently, allowing more time to teach. With immediate access to detailed test results, this easy-to-use system enables teachers to identify problems early in a unit so they can implement timely intervention strategies that will help students shine.

Technology enhances targeted teaching initiatives

Designed with teachers' needs in mind, Prosper for Shining Star helps schools make the most of valuable teaching time by:

• Measuring ELL students’ degree of skill in understanding English—which helps schools create collective learning environments based on proficiency levels.
• Presenting detail on student performance that suggests how to tailor the curriculum to various comprehension levels.
• Reporting on student comprehension to focus instruction on academic language commonly used in high-stakes testing.
• Identifying student’s overall performance as well as targeted performance on key domain areas.

Streamlining the testing process

This reliable tool simplifies testing every step of the way—freeing up valuable time to focus on teaching. Prosper for Shining Star’s convenient features include:

• Ready-made tests for each program level. Simply choose the appropriate level, select an assessment, and scan. It’s as easy as 1,2,3!
• A customized scoring form that matches a student’s unique ID number to the system’s student demographic data.
• Pre-loaded answer keys that immediately score the tests available in the Shining Star assessment guides.
• Automatic grading and tabulation of the tests that are administered throughout the Shining Star program.

A variety of useful reports

Designed with the teacher’s needs in mind, Prosper for Shining Star instantly analyzes test data and provides results so that teachers can readily identify effective teaching techniques—and intervene promptly to address learning gaps. This multi-purpose system generates a variety of useful reports, including individual reports, standards/skill summaries, class summaries, cumulative reports, and comparison reports.

View a chart of reports included in the system and download sample reports.

So simple to use

Easy to implement at the classroom or level, Prosper for Shining Star provides:

• Intuitive wizards to guide you through installation.
• Compatibility with popular desktop scanning solutions from Pearson Assessments that may already be in use in your schools.

Prosper assessment system received the 2006 Codie Award from the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) for Best Student Assessment Solution.

More Information

Please contact us with your questions or comments about Prosper Classroom Edition, Prosper for Shining Star, or the Classroom Performance System (CPS) student response pads that are used in support of your Pearson textbooks.

• Use our online inquiry form
• Call 800.447.3269