Education Solutions
PAR Education Solutions
Improve student academic performance with scientifically valid assessment instruments.
Comprehensive Assessment Tools and Resources for Those Working with Students from PreK Through College
Whether you are assessing for a learning disability, compiling the right interventions for a student with emotional disturbance, trying to get your student qualified for special education, guiding a gifted teen, or helping a college-age student find the right major, our tailored and effective solutions are designed to support you.
Our comprehensive suite of psychological assessments and resources will provide the efficiency and effectiveness required in working with today’s student populations.
Maximize Your Impact In Education
Our solutions enhance student success, offer customizable assessment tools, and provide training for school psychologists and other education-based mental health professionals.
Improve Student Outcomes
Our PAR product solutions facilitate interventions, empowering you to make informed decisions and get your students the support they need.
Customized Assessment Batteries
We can develop a comprehensive suite of assessment instruments that will meet the needs of your particular school or institution.
Free Product Training On-Demand
We offer no-cost training on many of our instruments, which can be accessed by individuals, or seamlessly integrated into district-wide initiatives.
Educational Specialties Supported by PAR
We understand that your time is valuable, and your resources are limited. PAR is here to help you extend your reach and make a difference within the constraints of the educational organization you work in.
Educational Diagnosticians
As an expert in learning disabilities, teaching methods, and academic testing requirements, let PAR be your assessment partner to help you pinpoint learning and behavioral challenges. Our tests help you diagnose learning delays, develop interventions for your plans, and assist in monitoring progress.
Rely on PAR solutions and support resources such as:
- Time and Cost Savings: PAR's digital assessment tools streamline administration, scoring, and reporting, saving you time and money, and allowing you bandwidth to see more students.
- Automated Online Administration and Scoring: Use PARiConnect, our online assessment platform, for efficient administration and scoring of mental health assessment tools. Many of our instruments offer robust interpretive reports with recommendations you can include in your reports.
- BRIEF2 Executive Functioning Measure: Evaluate students during initial assessment, monitor executive functioning over time, and develop personalized interventions.
- Comprehensive Training: Access free training on a variety of our assessment products via PAR Training.
- Continuing Education: Participate in free live PARtalks webinars that earn you CE credit, keeping you up to date with the latest practices.
University First Year Experience (FYE) Leaders
Yours is a vital role in ensuring college freshmen not only acclimate to your university or college but also receive resources to set them up for success. PAR offers many tools that can be administered by most school leaders and easily added into your FYE curriculum.
Here are some ways that we support you:
- Career exploration: Guide students into the right major or career path based on their preferences. A detailed and interactive report provided with the Self-Directed Search (SDS) lets students explore both major and career paths that match their personality.
- Learning disabilities: Assessments can help alert you to possible undiagnosed learning disabilities or ADHD.
University Psychology Professors
It’s crucial to educate your students on the realities in the field of psychological assessment and give them a foundation they’ll use again and again in their careers. When they learn about and use valid, reliable, fully standardized instruments, they’ll enter the field with the knowledge they need to provide the highest standard of care to their own patients and conduct reliable, impactful research.
Implement PAR assessments instruments into your curriculum and receive these benefits:
- PAR's University Partnership Program (UPP): A tailored service that offers dedicated assistance to you and your students as they pursue advanced degrees—so you can spend more time investing in your students. Plus, you’ll get a 40% discount on products used for training and up to three free kits to use in your training courses. (Free kits are offered for newly adopted tests.)
- PAR Training: With a free account, access comprehensive training materials for your students—so you don’t need to build a curriculum from scratch. Courses provide in-depth information on administration, the rationale for development, and psychometrics.
- Clinical Training Discount: This program is reserved for internships, clinical practicum, and post-doc programs and usually involves training off-site/outside of the university setting. The trainer must apply to the training program. Once you apply, PAR is pleased to extend a 20% discount on your purchase of PAR products.
High School Guidance & Career Counselors
Your high schoolers rely on you to support their efforts in selecting the right major, the right school, and the right career. While you may not have all the answers, PAR offers the Self-Directed Search. The SDS is a tool that allows your students to explore their options and get excited for what their future may hold, all based on their personality.
Here are some features of the SDS:
- The SDS is easily taken online.
- With over 250 questions, it takes a deeper look and provides more insights than other “career tests.”
- Links to over 1,400 jobs in O et and offers lists of schools that offer training for specific jobs.
- Students are emailed their customized report that can be saved, sorted, and revisited.
- Group discounts are available.
School District Administrators
With tight budgets, staffing constraints and the growing number of students needing support services, look to the leader in scientifically valid assessment tools to obtain insight that will make a difference in determining what interventions students need to be successful.
Implement PAR assessment instruments into your district and receive these benefits:
- Time and Cost Savings: PAR's digital assessment tools streamline administration, scoring, and reporting, saving you time and costs, and allowing your team to focus on students. Ask about our subscription plans and volume discounts.
- Automated Online Administration and Scoring: PARiConnect, our online assessment platform, is the most reliable in the industry and offers efficient administration and scoring of mental health assessment tools.
- We are now an affiliated partner with Clever. With our integration between Clever and PARiConnect, onboarding is streamlined, IT headaches are reduced, and implementation timelines are shortened—so you can focus on what matters most: helping students thrive.
Speech-Language Pathologist / Occupational Therapists
As you work with students with possible or diagnosed motoric or speech problems, selecting the best assessments to uncover the root cause of learning issues is important. PAR instruments help you diagnose learning delays, develop interventions for your plans, and assist in monitoring progress.
Rely on PAR solutions and support resources such as:
- FAR/FAW to Assist in Diagnosing Reading and Writing Issues: Use these assessments as part of psychoeducation evaluations. They do more than just identify if a learning disability is present. They examine the underlying reasons for why the student is performing at a particular skill level.
- Time and Cost Savings: PAR's digital assessment tools streamline administration, scoring, and reporting, saving you time and costs, and allowing you to focus on students.
Special Education Directors
Working through the process to get your students with special needs the best educational support and services is your daily challenge. Integrating PAR assessments into your special ed program will provide important data to lay the foundation for IEPs. Our scientifically valid assessments can be an important part of supporting students across your entire district.
Let PAR assessments help you overcome some of your challenges:
- Time and Cost Savings: PAR's digital assessment tools streamline administration, scoring, and reporting, helping you stretch your budget, and allowing you to focus on getting students the help they need. Ask about our subscription and discount volume programs.
- Automated Online Administration and Scoring: PARiConnect, our online assessment platform, allows for efficient administration and scoring of mental health assessment tools.
School Psychologist (K-12)
Facing a new mandate to test for dyslexia? Starting a gifted program? Has a traumatic event impacted your students? Whatever challenges you’re facing, we can support you. PAR has many tools that can help you screen and measure your students for various learning and mental health challenges.
Receive benefits and support resources such as:
- Time and Cost Savings: PAR's digital assessment tools streamline administration, scoring, and reporting, saving you time and costs, and allowing you more time to focus on students.
- Automated Online Administration and Scoring: Use PARiConnect, our online assessment platform, for efficient administration and scoring of mental health assessment tools.
PAR is a Clever Application Partner
PAR is an approved application partner with Clever—the leading platform for secure digital learning in K–12 education. Our single sign on (SSO) experience from within Clever connects seamlessly to PARiConnect, making it that much easier for school districts looking to bring PAR’s trusted assessment solutions into their schools.
Featured Products for Education
BRIEF2
The Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function, Second Edition, is a proven measure of executive functioning across the life span including the BRIEF-P for preschool age students and the BRIEF2A for students transitioning out of high school. Use it as part of your battery with students with suspected self-regulation concerns such as autism, ADHD, and learning disabilities.
RIAS-2
The Reynolds Intellectual Assessment Scales, Second Edition, is a reliable and valid measurement of g including verbal and nonverbal processing speed. Use it as a stand-alone intellectual assessment or as part of a larger battery to help diagnose intellectual or learning disabilities, and as a way to determine educational placement. Administer digitally or on paper.
FAR
The Feifer Assessment of Reading doesn’t just indicate IF a student may have a reading disorder—it goes deeper to tell you WHY the student is struggling—identifying likely dyslexic subtypes. The FAR can measure for dysphonetic dyslexia, surface dyslexia, mixed dyslexia, and reading comprehension deficits, informing decisions about appropriate interventions.
FAM
The Feifer Assessment of Mathematics has advantages over traditional academic tests because you learn WHY the student is where they are, without having to administer multiple tests to find out. The FAM can identify the specific type of dyscalculia, whether it is verbal, procedural, or semantic. Plus, you receive targeted interventions that can be used to build an IEP.
FAW
Is it a cognitive, linguistic, or motoric issue affecting a student's writing skills? Find out with the Feifer Assessment of Writing, a diagnostic achievement test designed to examine the underlying processes that support proficient written language skills. The FAW can identify the possibility of dysgraphia, and determine the specific subtype (graphomotor, executive, and dyslexic).