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 [...]
Most test reports are only skin deep and cannot measure all the reasons behind a student’s performance. The over simplification of performance reporting by providing simple letter or number scores is no longer enough. Students and their tutors require actionable information based on quantitative data to help them improve their scores on standardize tests such [...]
How have you (or your student) really done on SAT or ACT test prep? Do you know exactly what to focus on before next mock practice test? We are please to invite you to try theTestGrader, where you can grade, score and get detailed personalized reports for ACT / SAT full tests or individual section [...]
Earlier this week the New York Times ran an eye-opening article about students from the Beacon School of Excellence in Brooklyn. Despite their poverty these young fourth graders scored higher on their standardized tests than students in neighboring schools with more resources and affluent backgrounds. This is not a story about underdogs and rich versus [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
UPDATE: There is an online version of this tool available for free at bubblesheetgrader.com 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 [...]
Recently collegeboard released the new version of Official SAT Study Guide (2nd Edition – Jul 21st 2009) which has 10 practice tests. This new guide replaces the older revision – The Official SAT Study Guide by The College Board (Paperback – Oct 7, 2004) which has 8 practice tests. On close examination of the [...]
