The Administrator Editions: Empowering with Data

Literary Companion® represents the next generation of curriculum-based educational technology: a learning and instructional tool that also features substantial data-mining capabilities for school-, district-level administrators.

LC provides each level of administration with real-time access to assessment data in vocabulary, reading-comprehension, and writing:

• The School Edition tracks assessment scores by grade level and individual student.
   
• The District Edition tracks assessment scores by school and grade level. 

In addition, during the '08-'09 school year, AcademicMerit is working with selected state- and district-level educators to develop an online system that will allow for double-blind, independent scoring of student essays by teachers within each state -- using each state's own writing rubric.

In these ways, LC is designed to enhance student performance by enabling administrators to gather the quantifiable data they need in order to improve the quality of instruction.