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We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of ACT Test Diagnostic Assessments and Reports for tutoring centers.
Students and tutors who use traditional books, paper / pencil to practice and prepare for the ACT exam can now get the best of two worlds. Work with traditional printed books like Real ACT Test Prep Guide to […]

On Wednesday, December 9th, at 6:30 Mass Innovation is organizing an event for MA innovators.  A number of companies will present there. Thanks to everyone who voted for Socrato, we are one of the presenter.
If you are at the event, look forward to see you later today.
Here are the directions: http://massinnovationnights.com/event-rsvp/google-map

Because we frequently receive inquires for ACT Diagnostic Analysis and Reporting, we’ve decided to make the ACT the next test we support as part of our “Companion Series” diagnostic reporting suite.  We know that tutors and students have to deal with the drawn-out scoring process for each ACT test. For experienced tutors, scoring student practice […]

One of the interesting features of Twitter is the ability to “follow” anyone and then listen to their tweets. Effectively the person you are following becomes the “filter” for you for certain types of content and information.  You receive immediate updates on what’s going on.
While working with a number of teachers and tutors, we noticed […]

The Obama administration is announcing $4.35B in stimulus funding for schools. One of the primary allowed uses of the funding is for systems like Socrato that measure student progress. Let us know if you’d like help writing a grant application…
Read the article by Sally Holland at CNN.

Today we upgraded Socrato with new release.
Major updates were done in learning analytic and reporting area. Key high lights include:

Teachers or tutors can create custom reports for group of students.
Assessment data can be analyzed by teacher defined parameters and criteria. Example, school staff can look at the performance of a class by race, gender, lunch […]

We received many requests about the availability of elementary school content. So we decided to prioritize this as part of our recent engagements with schools (where we are also doing learning data processing and analytics). We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of elementary school MCAS test content for Math and ELA.
Teachers […]

Thank you to number of you who send in comment, issues as well called us with questions. Based on your feedback we have made number of updates to Socrato. Please see the details below.
Issue Resolved
Increased testing effort on Safari browser
We have increased testing efforts on the Safari browser. We are finding a few issues and […]

New release streamlines MCAS Summative Evaluation and Formative Evaluation.
Thank you all for your patience, support, and feedback. We are pleased to share a few more updates to Socrato which we believe will make life bit easier.
Uploading of MCAS Test Results / Assessment Test Results is a lot smoother along with the real time […]

We are excited to announce the most recent release of Socrato which we rolled out last weekend.  This release brings real time analysis and recommendations from student practice sessions to Students and Teachers to make learning, practice, and preparation more efficient.

With this release Socrato also welcomes all new teachers supporting […]