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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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Announcing – ACT Test Diagnostic Assessment for Tutoring Centers – Better Results in Less Time

By Raju Gupta On January 6, 2010 · 1 Comment · In Assessments, Exam: ACT, In The News, Socrato: Announcements, Teaching & Tutoring
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 [...]
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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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End of “Cut and Paste” to create custom assessments and worksheets for state standardized tests

By Raju Gupta On June 29, 2009 · Add Comment · In Assessments, Content, Teaching
A good article by Bailey on how to leverage MCAS material to supplement classroom or home instruction. Teachers and tutors can leverage any state standardized test material, or even National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) material. After each assessment, NAEP releases dozens of sample questions to the public—more than 2,000 questions are currently available to [...]
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Interesting articles on Educational data analysis, usage and access

By Raju Gupta On June 19, 2009 · Add Comment · In Assessments, Education: General, Teaching
How Data analysis is helping raise performance – story covers both good and the bad Educational data is in abundance – but not in very useful state. Education Week: Data, Data Everywhere, But Not a Drop to online casinos Use  Impact of providing detailed and real time access to student educational and learning data to [...]
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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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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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