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High Scores for Brooklyn School Students Despite Poverty

By Socrato Admin On April 30, 2010 · Add Comment · In Assessments, Education: General, Teaching, Teaching & Tutoring
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 [...]
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“Race to the Top” school stimulus funds for systems like Socrato that measure student progress

By Socrato Admin On July 29, 2009 · Add Comment · In Socrato: Announcements
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.
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Partial release of MCAS test items is a step backwards

By Socrato Admin On June 29, 2009 · 1 Comment · In Socrato
An open letter to the Massachusetts Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education: Mitchell D. Chester, Ed.D. Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education Dear Commissioner Chester, I work with a number of schools helping them review MCAS data and results. Thank you for shortening the turnaround time for MCAS results for schools, and for shortening the test [...]
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Analysis of previous year MCAS Tests – how many Questions per standard area?

By Socrato Admin On March 26, 2009 · Add Comment · In Assessments, Resource
With 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 [...]
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Upgrades to make Socrato easier and faster

By Socrato Admin On February 17, 2009 · Add Comment · In Socrato, Socrato: System
We are pleased to announce that this past weekend we rolled out a new release on Socrato. Some of the changes are external and can be seen by users, but most of the improvements are “under the hood” and result in improved response time. The key changes include: User Interface More content  – In addition [...]
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New 3rd–5th grade content. Socrato now supports MCAS grades 3 – 10.

By Socrato Admin On February 7, 2009 · 2 Comments · In Socrato, Socrato: Announcements
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 who [...]
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Future of educational assessment and student data

By Socrato Admin On September 3, 2008 · 1 Comment · In Assessments, Education: General
In 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. [...]
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Solving the Testing and Assessment Problem

By Socrato Admin On September 2, 2008 · 1 Comment · In Education: General
When will educational institutions learn to use technology the right way?!  It seems like every other day I come across examples where technology is used for the sake of using technology instead of solving the actual problem.  Upon reading this article the first question that came to my mind – Did each student even have [...]
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Release Update | Upgrades to assessment results upload, editing, performance, reporting and help

By Socrato Admin On August 1, 2008 · Add Comment · In General, Socrato, Socrato: Announcements
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 [...]
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New Socrato release streamlines MCAS Summative & Formative Evaluations

By Socrato Admin On July 29, 2008 · 2 Comments · In Socrato, Socrato: Announcements
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 [...]
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