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Announcing - ACT Test Diagnostic Assessment for Tutoring Centers - Better Results in Less Time
1 Comment Published by Raju January 6th, 2010 in Tutoring, ACT, Assessment, In The News, Homepage, Announcements Email This PostWe 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 […]
ACT test score and composite score calculator simplifies ACT test preparation for tutors and students.
1 Comment Published by Raju December 22nd, 2009 in ACT, Tutoring, Assessment, General Email This PostTutors who teach ACT exam prep and Students who are preparing for the ACT exam, feel the pain of ACT test grading, scoring, and scaling. The process requires reasonable manual effort which is prone to error, and is time away from real work (study or tutoring).
We recently published the details for an ACT Score calculator. […]
New Feature — Tutors and teachers can directly initiate a test session for a student
0 Comments Published by Raju December 21st, 2009 in Assessment, System, General Email This PostIn addition to the many other methods of conducting test sessions or importing student responses, Socrato now allows tutors and teachers to directly initiate a test session as one of their students. The responses can be entered question by question, or in “bubble sheet” mode. For large classes, tutors can still import from excel files, […]
End of “Cut and Paste” to create custom assessments and worksheets for state standardized tests
0 Comments Published by Raju June 29th, 2009 in Teaching, Assessment, Content Email This PostA good article by Bailey on how to leverage MCAS material to supplement classroom or home instruction.
Teachers and tutors can leverage any state standardized test material, or even National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) material. After each assessment, NAEP releases dozens of sample questions to the public—more than 2,000 questions are currently available to be […]
Interesting articles on Educational data analysis, usage and access
0 Comments Published by Raju June 19th, 2009 in Teaching, Intelligence, Assessment, Education Email This PostHow Data analysis is helping raise performance – story covers both good and the bad
Data-Driven Schools See Rising Scores - WSJ.com
Educational data is in abundance – but not in very useful state.
Education Week: Data, Data Everywhere, But Not a Drop to Use
Impact of providing detailed and real time access to student educational and learning data […]
Analysis of previous year MCAS Tests - how many Questions per standard area?
0 Comments Published by admin March 26th, 2009 in Resources, Intelligence, Assessment, Homepage Email This PostWith the MCAS season underway and teachers trying to help students, we received a few requests to get insight into how the questions are distributed across the learning standards. Or, how many questions are allocated to each standard area in a given year or grade level? Or, Do you have the frequency analysis of questions […]
Future of educational assessment and student data
1 Comment Published by admin September 3rd, 2008 in Assessment, Education Email This PostIn an interesting article from Dr. Mostafa Mehrabani - McGraw Hill Assessment and Reporting President, he shares his thoughts about the future of educational assessment and reporting. Looking at the trends, I believe the underlying shift in education (and the impact of technology on it) is going to be bigger than Dr. Mostafa’s article projects.
Here […]
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