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38-500: NABP started the development of a standardized national examination in 1958 by Dr. Fred T. Mahaffey. The effort led to the eventual formation of Blue Ribbon Committee in 1968 and Blue Ribbon Examination in 1971. Blue Ribbon Examination was renamed to the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy Licensure Examination (NABPLEX) in 1975. All state boards of pharmacy with the exception of California used NABPLEX by 1986. In March 1997,

76-490: A 4th grade math question with two correct answers, errors in the 6th grade ELA scoring guide, and over twenty errors on foreign-language math tests. Official website Longman Longman , also known as Pearson Longman , is a publishing company founded in 1724 in London, England, which is owned by Pearson PLC . Since 1968, Longman has been used primarily as an imprint by Pearson's Schools business. The Longman brand

114-515: A Catholic publishing division it operated under the Scott Foresman imprint, to RCL Benziger in 2007. In 2007 Pearson Education sold the Macmillan name to Holtzbrinck Publishing Group , which had purchased Macmillan Publishing Ltd. in the late 1990s. In 2000 Pearson acquired Virtual University Enterprises, an electronic testing company founded in 1994, and renamed it Pearson VUE. According to

152-560: A division of Pearson Education, acquired PowerSchool, a student information system, from Apple ; terms of the deal were not disclosed. PowerSchool was a profitable product for Pearson; in 2014, it generated $ 97 million in revenue and $ 20 million in operating income. In 2015, Pearson sold PowerSchool to Vista Equity Partners for $ 350 million cash. In 2007, the company developed the youth-oriented online quest game Poptropica , through its Family Education Network. In 2015, Pearson's Family Education Network, along with Poptropica, were sold to

190-487: A number of publishing imprints , including: InformIT, a subsidiary of Pearson Education, is an online book vendor and an electronic publisher of technology and education content. It is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana . It publishes books, e-books , and videos, and its imprints include Addison-Wesley Professional , Cisco Press , Pearson IT Certification, Que Publishing, and Sams Publishing . InformIT.com

228-469: A partner; in the same year, Thomas Brown (c. 1777–1869) entered the house as an apprentice. Longman had three sons. Of these, Thomas Norton Longman (1771–1842) succeeded to the business. In 1804, two more partners, including Edward Orme & Thomas Hurst, were admitted, and the former apprentice Brown became a partner in 1811; in 1824, the title of the firm was changed to 'Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green'. A document of 1823 "Grant of Land in

266-452: A publishing imprint of Pearson based out of Seattle, partnered with AARP in 2014 to develop and add to a series of technology books for seniors. The series, which includes My iPad For Seniors, and My Social Media for Seniors, are large-print and colourful. In the spring of 2012, tests that Pearson designed for the NYSED were found to contain over 30 errors, which caused controversy. One of

304-450: A score of 75 or higher are given a performance profile, which details their relative areas of strength and weakness. They must wait at least 45 days (previously 91 days) before retaking the NAPLEX. Pearson VUE Pearson Education , known since 2011 as simply Pearson , is the educational publishing and services subsidiary of the international corporation Pearson plc . The subsidiary

342-537: A shareholder in 1918. In December 1940, Longman's Paternoster Row offices were destroyed in The Blitz , along with most of the company's stock. The company survived this crisis, however, and became a public company in 1948. Longman was acquired by the global publisher Pearson , owner of Penguin and The Financial Times , in 1968. Longman's medical lists was merged with other Pearson subsidiaries to form Churchill Livingstone in 1972. Also in 1972, Mark Longman, last of

380-500: A testing appointment. The NABP's announcement of updates to the 2016 NAPLEX exam include increased fee price, number of exam questions, and time to sit for the exam. Number of exam questions increased from 185 to 225, and time to sit for the exam has increased from 4 hours and 15 minutes to 6 hours total. Of the 225 questions, only 200 are used to tabulate the applicant's score. The remaining questions are "trial balloon" questions under consideration for inclusion on future NAPLEX tests. There

418-688: Is a publishing partner for Adobe, Apple, Macromedia, and others. In 2001, the Pearson Technology Group and O'Reilly Media LLC formed a joint partnership called Safari Books Online , to offer a web-based electronic library of technical and business books from InformIT's imprint partners and O'Reilly Media . The InformIT Network offers access to this service via its web sites. Pearson sold its interest in Safari Books Online to O'Reilly in 2014. Pearson's products include MyMathLab and Mastering Platform . In 2006, Pearson School Systems,

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456-604: Is also used for the Longman Schools in China and the Longman Dictionary . The Longman company was founded by Thomas Longman (1699 – 18 June 1755), the son of Ezekiel Longman (died 1708), a gentleman of Bristol . Thomas was apprenticed in 1716 to John Osborn, a London bookseller, and at the expiration of his apprenticeship married Osborn's daughter. In August 1724, he purchased the stock and household goods of William Taylor ,

494-470: Is no way to distinguish a regular test question from a trial balloon question. As of March 2024, the NAPLEX exam fee increased from $ 475 to $ 520. Prior to the changes in November 2016, the NAPLEX exam was presented as a computer adaptive exam in which the delivery of questions was modified based on the response of the test taker and questions on a specific subject may have increased or decreased in difficulty as

532-565: Is one of the websites of the Pearson Technology Group, and one of several sites in the InformIT Network. The site features free articles, blogs, and podcasts on IT topics and products, as well as a bookstore carrying all titles from its imprints. Other sites in the InformIT Network include Peachpit.com. Peachpit is a publisher that has been producing books on graphic design, desktop publishing, multimedia, web design and development, digital video, and general computing since 1986. Peachpit

570-523: The Concan" printed by the firm under this name shows the name change was from 1823 or earlier. In 1799, Longman purchased the copyright of Lindley Murray 's English Grammar , which had an annual sale of about 50 000 copies. In the following year, Richmal Mangnall 's Historical and Miscellaneous Questions for the Use of Young People was purchased, and went through 84 editions by 1857. About 1800 he also purchased

608-454: The London-based investment group Sandbox Partners. In 2010, Pearson purchased Cogmed , a brain fitness and working memory training program founded in 1999 by Swedish researcher Torkel Klingberg. In 2019, Cogmed was transferred back to the original founders. In 2016, Pearson acquired StatCrunch , a statistical analysis tool created by Webster West in 1997. Pearson had already been

646-499: The Longman family to run the company, died. Longman continued to exist as an imprint of Pearson , under the name 'Pearson Longman'. Pearson Longman specialized in English, including English as a second or foreign language , history, economics, philosophy, political science, and religion. Longman is now primarily used by Pearson's ELT business (English Language Teaching). The Longman brand

684-549: The NABPLEX was renamed to the NAPLEX. California recognized the NAPLEX in 2004. Until 1997, the examination was in a paper and pencil format utilized since 1976 which was replaced with a computer-adaptive test administered at contracted testing centers. The NAPLEX is exclusively a computer-administered exam. After receiving an authorization to test from NABP, applicants must register with an official testing facility, such as Pearson VUE , at least two business days in advance to schedule

722-542: The business in Paternoster Row. Their first success was the publication of Macaulay 's Lays of Ancient Rome , which was followed in 1841 by the issue of the first two volumes of his History of England , which after a few years had a sale of 40 000 copies. The two brothers were well known for their literary talent. Thomas Longman edited a beautifully illustrated edition of the New Testament , and William Longman

760-578: The company began phasing out the prominence of its hard-copy textbooks in favor of digital textbooks, which cost the company far less, and can be updated frequently and easily. As of 2023, Pearson Education has testing/teaching centers in over 55 countries worldwide; the UK and the U.S. have the most centers. The headquarters of parent company Pearson plc are in London, England. Pearson Education's U.S. headquarters were in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey until

798-475: The company, as of 2023, it delivers numerous skills tests and certification tests electronically in over 180 countries. Pearson Education was rebranded as simply Pearson in 2011, and split into Pearson North America and Pearson International. A restructuring announced in 2013 combined Pearson North America and Pearson International into one Pearson company organised around three global lines of business: School, Higher Education, and Professional. Following

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836-538: The copyright of Southey 's Joan of Arc and Wordsworth 's Lyrical Ballads , from Joseph Cottle of Bristol. He published the works of Wordsworth, Coleridge , Southey and Scott , and acted as London agent for the Edinburgh Review , which was started in 1802. In 1802 appeared the first part of Rees's Cyclopædia , edited by Abraham Rees . This was completed in 39 volumes plus 6 volumes of plates in 1819. In 1814 arrangements were made with Thomas Moore for

874-663: The first publisher of Robinson Crusoe , for £ 2 282 9s 6d. Taylor's two shops in Paternoster Row , London, were known respectively as the Black Swan and the Ship , premises at that time having signs rather than numbers, and became the publishing house premises. Longman entered into partnership with his father-in-law, Osborn, who held one-sixth of the shares in Ephraim Chambers 's Cyclopaedia (1728). Longman himself

912-459: The headquarters were closed at the end of 2014. Most of Pearson Education's printing is done by third-party suppliers. Following the British government's acquisition and nationalization of several of Pearson 's aviation, fuel, and energy divisions in the early 1940s, the diversified multinational conglomerate entered the education market. It acquired the textbook publisher Longman in 1968. In

950-561: The late 1980s and 1990s, Pearson plc divested further from a number of its industries and acquired more educational publishing companies, and its education publishing operations became steadily larger and more significant. In 1988 Pearson plc purchased Addison-Wesley , the sixth-largest publisher of textbooks in the U.S., and merged it with Pearson's educational books subsidiary Longman to create Addison-Wesley Longman. In 1996, it acquired HarperCollins Educational Publishing and merged it with Addison-Wesley Longman. Marjorie Scardino , who

988-574: The most prominent featured a passage about a talking pineapple on the 8th Grade ELA test (revealed to be based on Daniel Pinkwater 's The Story of the Rabbit and the Eggplant , with the eggplant changed into a pineapple). After public outcry, the NYSED announced it would not count the questions in scoring. Other errors included a miscalculated question on the 8th Grade Mathematics test regarding astronomical units ,

1026-491: The primary distributor of StatCrunch for several years. In 2007, Pearson partnered with four other higher-education publishers to create CourseSmart , a company developed to sell college textbooks in eTextbook format on a common platform. In 2011, Pearson obtained a five-year, $ 32 million contract with the New York State Department of Education to design tests for students in grades 3–8. Que Publishing,

1064-602: The private equity firm Nexus Capital Management, which rebranded it as Savvas Learning Company. In 2019, Pearson also sold its remaining 25% stake in Penguin Random House to Bertelsmann . In 2022, Pearson Education announced that they intended to sell their digital textbooks as NFTs , in order to profit from secondhand sales. In 2022, Pearson acquired ClutchPrep, a Miami-based edtech startup that offers sample questions, test prep and college exam prep video guides. The service has been renamed Channels. Pearson has

1102-549: The process of phasing out the publishing of printed textbooks, in a plan to move into a more digital first strategy. E-textbooks will be updated frequently, while printed books will be updated less often. Students wanting printed books will need to rent them. As of 2019, the firm received more than half of its annual revenues from digital sales, and the US accounted for 20 percent of Pearson's annual revenue coming from courseware. In 2019, Pearson sold its US K-12 courseware business to

1140-411: The publication of Laila Rookh , for which he was paid £ 3 000; and when Archibald Constable failed in 1826, Longmans became the proprietors of the Edinburgh Review . They issued in 1829 Lardner 's Cabinet Encyclopaedia , and in 1832 McCulloch 's Commercial Dictionary . Thomas Norton Longman died on 29 August 1842, leaving his two sons, Thomas (1804–1879) and William (1813–1877), in control of

1178-402: The publications of the old firm of Rivington , established in 1711. The family control of the firm (later 'Longmans, Green & Co.') was continued by Thomas Norton Longman, son of Thomas Longman. In 1884 the firm employed John William Allen as an educationalist. Allen grew the firm's educational list, including textbooks he wrote himself. He later inherited the shares of W. E. Green and became

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1216-561: The sale of its financial news publications Financial Times and The Economist in 2015, Pearson plc rebranded in January 2016 to focus solely on education, and the corporation adopted a new logo. The logo is the unconventional symbol known as the interrobang (‽), a combination of a question mark and an exclamation point, and the logo is meant to convey a "combination of excitement, curiosity and individuality" and "the excitement and fun of learning". In 2019, Pearson announced it would begin

1254-703: The test progressed. The new exam is a pre-assembled linear format (standardized delivery for all test-takers) and will no longer adjust the exam based on user responses. There are several question types on the NAPLEX: multiple choice, select all that apply, point and click (to select a place on a picture or graph for the purpose of mechanisms of action, site of action, application or injection site, etc.), and sequencing. Essay and short answer are not included and, though previously used, K-type questions have been eliminated. Exam results are typically reported seven business days after administration. Applicants may access their scores on

1292-506: The website of the state Board of Pharmacy. A tabulated or "scaled" score of 75 or higher (out of a possible 150) is required for passing. Reported scores are not percentage values, nor are they some configuration of right versus wrong. Rather, they represent a mathematically calculated "ability measure" of the applicant based on an algorithm developed by the National Associations of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP). Applicants not obtaining

1330-588: Was CEO of Pearson plc from 1997 to 2013, increasingly focused the conglomerate on education and on making education acquisitions. In 1998, Pearson plc purchased the education division of Simon & Schuster , which included Prentice Hall , Allyn & Bacon , and parts of Macmillan Inc. including the Macmillan name. Later in 1998 it merged Simon & Schuster's educational business with Addison Wesley Longman to form Pearson Education . Pearson Education sold and divested most of its Simon & Schuster divisions in 1999. It sold Silver Burdett Ginn Religion,

1368-438: Was formed in 1998, when Pearson plc acquired Simon & Schuster 's educational business and combined it with Pearson's existing education company Addison-Wesley Longman . Pearson Education was restyled as simply Pearson in 2011. In 2016, the diversified parent corporation Pearson plc rebranded to focus entirely on education publishing and services, and as of 2023 Pearson Education is Pearson plc's main subsidiary. In 2019

1406-399: Was one of the six booksellers, who undertook the responsibility of Samuel Johnson 's Dictionary (1746–1755). In 1754, Longman took into partnership his nephew, Thomas Longman (1730–1797), and the title of the firm became T. and T. Longman. Upon the death of his uncle in 1755, Longman became sole proprietor. He greatly extended the colonial trade of the firm. In 1794, he took Owen Rees as

1444-582: Was the author of several important books, among them a History of the Three Cathedrals dedicated to St Paul (1869) and a work on the History of the Life and Times of Edward III (1873). In 1863, the firm took over the business of John William Parker , and with it Fraser's Magazine , and the publication of the works of John Stuart Mill and James Anthony Froude ; while in 1890 they incorporated with their own all

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