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# Pear Practice vs. Pear Assessment: Which Tool Should You Use?

> Understand the difference between Pear Practice and Pear Assessment practice tests so you can choose the right tool for your goal.

If you have access to both Pear Practice and Pear Assessment, you may have noticed that both products support student practice. They are built for different goals, and choosing the right one depends on what you want to accomplish.

Pear Practice is a gamified practice platform. Students earn XP, progress through the Season Map, and play collaborative games. Pear Assessment is a standards-aligned assessment platform. Teachers create or assign assessments, and the platform tracks standards mastery over time.

## When to Use Pear Practice

Use Pear Practice when your goal is daily reinforcement and classroom engagement.

Pear Practice works well when you want to:

* Build fluency through repeated practice with immediate feedback
* Run a collaborative classroom game using live practice
* Motivate students through the Season Map, tickets, and avatars
* Give students an independent assignment at their own pace
* Make practice a regular, low-stakes part of your class routine

Pear Practice is organized around practice sets: groups of questions aligned to a subject, grade level, and standards. Teachers view accuracy reports by assignment, practice set, or standard.

## When to Use Pear Assessment

Use Pear Assessment when your goal is standards mastery and formal measurement.

Pear Assessment works well when you want to:

* Simulate a state test or district benchmark assessment
* Measure student proficiency on specific standards before and after instruction
* Track mastery of standards across a class, school, or district
* Use a wider range of item types, including drag and drop, hot spot, graphing, and math input
* Control when and how scores are released to students

Pear Assessment supports pre- and post-assessment comparisons that show growth against standards over time. Mastery in Pear Assessment refers to standards-based proficiency. Reports show class averages, item-level analysis, and proficiency by standard.

## Key Differences at a Glance

| Feature                | Pear Practice                                                            | Pear Assessment                                                                                                     |
| ---------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Primary purpose        | Ongoing gamified practice                                                | Standards-aligned assessment and mastery tracking                                                                   |
| Typical use            | Daily reinforcement, class games                                         | Benchmark tests, state test simulation, pre/post comparisons                                                        |
| Question types         | Multiple choice, text response, numerical, draw, diagram, classification | Multiple choice, multi-select, drag and drop, hot spot, graphing, essay, math input, audio response, video response |
| Scoring                | Accuracy scores (0-100%) by assignment, practice set, and standard       | Standards-based proficiency and mastery reporting                                                                   |
| Reporting              | Student progress over time by accuracy                                   | Item-level analysis, proficiency by standard, class and district views                                              |
| Engagement features    | Season Map, tickets, avatars, live practice games                        | None. Assessment conditions are neutral and quiet.                                                                  |
| Score-release controls | Not applicable                                                           | Teachers control when scores are visible to students                                                                |
| Licensing              | Separate license required                                                | Separate license required                                                                                           |

## Using Both Together

Pear Practice and Pear Assessment complement each other when used as a pair: Pear Assessment provides the formal measurement and Pear Practice provides the practice volume that moves students toward proficiency.

A common workflow:

1. Assign a Pear Assessment benchmark to identify where students are on a standard.
2. Use Pear Practice to run daily reinforcement on the standards where students need more repetition.
3. Assign a second Pear Assessment to measure growth.

You do not need to use both products to get value from either. Pear Practice works independently for engagement-focused classrooms. Pear Assessment works independently for data-focused schools and districts.

## Check Your Access

Pear Practice and Pear Assessment are licensed separately. Your account may include one or both products.

To check which products your account includes:

* Sign in to Pear Practice at [app.pearpractice.com](https://app.pearpractice.com) to confirm access.
* Sign in to your Pear Assessment portal to confirm access.

If you are not sure which licenses your district has purchased, contact your district admin or submit a support case.