A good way to prepare for the SAT and ACT exam is to practice “real past tests”. Typically, you can get the “real past tests” from official books published by the CollegeBoard and the ACT Org. Over the past few years we’ve worked with hundreds of tutors and thousands of students and here are the [...]
If you haven’t embraced video yet for your tutoring business or in your school here’s an example of a good use of video for engaging students online. VocabVideos is a new service but tutoring and test prep company, A-List Education Services. VocabVideos is a collection of 500 high frequency SAT vocabulary words that can be [...]
The following is a guest post by Edward Davey, a History Teacher and Instructional Technology Specialist in Suburban Boston. As schools prepare to open for the 2010-2011 school year, discussions inevitably turn to the new technologies available to educators. Teachers preparing for opening day, often learn of new equipment and software available for implementation. Too [...]
The ACT standardized test for high school achievement and college admission is growing in popularity. About 47% or 1.57 million high school students took the ACT in 2010. According to a new report from the ACT that is an increase of 30% from 2006. The SAT is still the most common admissions exam. However, the [...]
There is no question about it. Content has been going digital and although the use of hard copy (paper) is still prominent in Education, very soon it will dwindle. We’re not saying it will disappear, but more and more activities that used to happen solely on paper, right from media for digesting content, to media [...]
There were a couple of great stories in Education technology that we thought were worth sharing with everyone. Cloud computing is really coming to the fore front and more and more educational institutions are moving away from legacy software installed on the PC to using applications usable over the internet such as web email and [...]
Just came across this interesting data tidbit from the Chronicle of Higher Education. The results below are from the Faculty Survey of Student Engagement (FSSE) survey of around 4,600 faculty members at 50 U.S. colleges and universities. Please note that these results are from over a year ago so the 2010 picture could be a [...]
At Socrato we care a lot about education. We’re starting a new blog series where we will be picking a couple of interesting articles from education on a regular basis and featuring them on our blog. Please feel free to submit articles you find interesting or let us know what you thin in the comments. [...]
As usual I’ve been reading up on education news, trolling some blogs and participating in a bunch of twitter chats. Apart from a few stories, however the news was local and the twitter chats were with intimate, smaller groups. I really wanted to get a better idea about what are some of the major themes [...]
Today the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education agreed to adopt the Common Core Standards for state standardized testing. In a 9-0 vote, Massachusetts became the 28th state in the U.S. to approve the new national standard and another 12 should follow suite by the Fall. In a couple of years the MCAS exam [...]
