http://blog.socrato.com Welcome to the Learning Intelligence Blog Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:25:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://blog.socrato.com/release-update-fixes-for-score-recalculation-of-sat-act-and-satact-comparison-report/ 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 http://blog.socrato.com/sat-act-are-they-the-national-standard-for-high-school-graduation/ 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 ... http://blog.socrato.com/announcing-act-test-diagnostic-assessment-for-tutoring-centers-better-results-in-less-time/ 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 ... http://blog.socrato.com/how-profitable-is-collegeboard-sat-company/     "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 http://blog.socrato.com/boston-innovation-article/ 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 real work (study or tutoring). We recently published the details ... http://blog.socrato.com/act-test-score-and-composite-score-calculator-simplifies-act-test-preparation-for-tutors-and-students/ 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 ... http://blog.socrato.com/new-feature-tutors-and-teachers-can-directly-initiate-a-test-session-for-a-student/ 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 ... http://blog.socrato.com/see-you-at-mass-innovation-event/ 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 ... http://blog.socrato.com/free-act-test-score-calculator/    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 ... http://blog.socrato.com/the-sat-official-study-guide-second-edition-is-it-really-worth-it/