What Are People Talking About in Education (alpha)?

On July 23, 2010, in Education, General, Uncategorized, by Prashant Kaw
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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 [...]

 

Preview – Section Scoring and Performance Reports for ACT and SAT tests

On April 14, 2010, in ACT, General, Homepage, Socrato, Tutoring, by Raju Gupta
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Students preparing for ACT or SAT tests and tutors who are helping students know how cumbersome it is to do scoring, scaling, and performance analysis on these tests (171 questions for SAT and 225 questions for ACT). Especially ACT is more painful as there are multiple level of scaling involved. See previous write up on [...]

 

Release update | Section Scoring and Performance Reports for ACT and SAT

On April 14, 2010, in ACT, Announcements, General, Release Update, by Raju Gupta
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This past weekend our team upgraded Socrato.com. Key changes included in this release: Ability to configure custom branding for Scoring and Performance Reports Customers can now upload their logo, choose a color scheme, and create their own custom branded reports. This feature will be accessible to customers by request only. “Section Reports” (Mini Reports) for [...]

 

Release Update: Fixes for score recalculation of SAT, ACT and SAT/ACT comparison report

On February 17, 2010, in General, Release Update, by Raju Gupta
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Hello All, Not a huge release, number of minor fixes and enhancements in SAT/ACT custom diagnostic reports area. An issue related to the recalculation of the scores for SAT, ACT, and SAT/ACT comparison reports has been resolved. After uploading the session in bulk mode… if the user edits the session again online, the updated session [...]

 

SAT / ACT – Are they the national standard for high school graduation?

On January 18, 2010, in Education, General, by Raju Gupta
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Diane Ravitch an education historian makes an argument that tests like SAT and ACT are the common standards of education across all states. Read full article here

 

How profitable is CollegeBoard / SAT Company?

On January 4, 2010, in ACT, Education, General, Tutoring, by Raju Gupta
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An interesting article in Fortune Magazine which gives insight into financials of CollegeBoard (a “non-profit” which owns the SAT and other exams) and American College Testing (which owns the ACT test). According to the article: The most recent fiscal year revenue for CollegeBoard is $631 million. Net “excess” (profit) for the same year is $57 [...]

 

Boston Innovation – Article

On December 30, 2009, in Education, General, Homepage, In The News, by Raju Gupta
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    “Socrato: The Future of Test Prep?” by Matt Fellows “Socrato has the potential to strip standardized tests of their mysterious, intimidating power, and turn them into more helpful learning tools…” Read More

 

ACT test score and composite score calculator simplifies ACT test preparation for tutors and students.

On December 22, 2009, in ACT, Assessment, General, Tutoring, by Raju Gupta
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UPDATE: There is an online version of this tool available for free at Bubblesheetgrader.com Tutors 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 [...]

 

New Feature — Tutors and teachers can directly initiate a test session for a student

On December 21, 2009, in Assessment, General, System, by Raju Gupta
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In 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, [...]

 

See you at Mass Innovation Event

On December 9, 2009, in Announcements, General, by Raju Gupta
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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