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Boston Innovation – Article

By Raju Gupta On December 30, 2009 · Add Comment · In Education: General, General, In The News
    “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
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ACT test score and composite score calculator simplifies ACT test preparation for tutors and students.

By Raju Gupta On December 22, 2009 · 4 Comments · In Assessments, Exam: ACT, General, Teaching & Tutoring
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 [...]
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New Feature — Tutors and teachers can directly initiate a test session for a student

By Raju Gupta On December 21, 2009 · Add Comment · In Assessments, General, Socrato: System
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, [...]
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See you at Mass Innovation Event

By Raju Gupta On December 9, 2009 · Add Comment · In General, Socrato: Announcements
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
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Free ACT Test Score Calculator

By Raju Gupta On November 5, 2009 · 6 Comments · In Exam: ACT, Resource, Socrato: Announcements, Teaching & Tutoring
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 [...]
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The SAT Official Study Guide (Second edition) – Is it really worth it?

By Raju Gupta On September 30, 2009 · 5 Comments · In Exam: SAT, Teaching & Tutoring
   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 [...]
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Can one teacher’s or tutor’s hardwork benefit others? Leveraging our “Follow” feature for educational content.

By Raju Gupta On August 10, 2009 · Add Comment · In Content, Education: General, Socrato, Socrato: Announcements, Teaching, Teaching & Tutoring
One of the interesting features of Twitter is the ability to “follow” anyone and then listen to their tweets. Effectively the person you are following becomes the “filter” for you for certain types of content and information.  You receive immediate updates on what’s going on. While working with a number of teachers and tutors, we [...]
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Free ebook download from worldbookfair

By Raju Gupta On July 29, 2009 · Add Comment · In Tutoring
The 4th annual e-book fair is going on www.worldebookfair.org from July 4 to August 4.  About 2 Talk about waaaaay too much free time on their hands!The whole hair follicle drug test thing also points to the hypocrisy of sCAM. million PDF books are available for free download. After the completion of this fair, the [...]
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Changing law to increase number of charter schools – Is it to get money or to bring change?

By Raju Gupta On July 17, 2009 · Add Comment · In Education: General
Recently there has been a lot of coverage about Charter Schools in Massachusetts.  So I dug little deeper… What are charter schools? An innovative approach towards school and education management They are public schools, funded by government money They can be under district management or state management Another interesting aspect is that, when a student [...]
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According to Dept. of Edu. Study – Blended courses (online and face-to-face instruction) are the best.

By Raju Gupta On July 8, 2009 · Add Comment · In Education: General, Teaching, Teaching & Tutoring
According to US Department of Education study students who took “blended” courses — those that combine elements of online learning and face-to-face instruction — appeared to do best of all. The study finds this after detailed review of 51 high quality research reports out of over 1000 research studies. Looking at in detail, the key [...]
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