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Top 5 Education Articles from Last Week: Edu in the Cloud

By Socrato Admin On August 2, 2010 · 1 Comment · In Tutoring
There were a couple of great stories in Education technology that we thought were worth sharing with everyone. Cloud computing is really coming to the fore front and more and more educational institutions are moving away from legacy software installed on the PC to using applications usable over the internet such as web email and [...]
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Survey Results: Use of Technology in Teaching by College Professors

By Socrato Admin On July 28, 2010 · 2 Comments · In Tutoring
Survey Results: Use of Technology in Teaching by College Professors
Just came across this interesting data tidbit from the Chronicle of Higher Education. The results below are from the Faculty Survey of Student Engagement (FSSE) survey of around 4,600 faculty members at 50 U.S. colleges and universities. Please note that these results are from over a year ago so the 2010 picture could be a [...]
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Top 5 Education Articles to Start the Week: Test Standards

By Socrato Admin On July 26, 2010 · Add Comment · In Tutoring
At Socrato we care a lot about education. We”re starting a new blog series where we will be picking a couple of interesting articles from education on a regular basis and featuring them on our blog. Please feel free to submit articles you find interesting or let us know what you thin in the comments. [...]
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What Are People Talking About in Education (alpha)?

By Socrato Admin On July 23, 2010 · Add Comment · In Education: General, General, Tutoring
As usual I”ve been reading up on education news, trolling some blogs and participating in a bunch of twitter chats. Apart from a few stories, however the news was local and the twitter chats were with intimate, smaller groups. I really wanted to get a better idea about what are some of the major themes [...]
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How the Common Core Stacks Up Against State Standards

By Socrato Admin On July 21, 2010 · 3 Comments · In Assessments, Common Core
Today the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education agreed to adopt the Common Core Standards for state standardized testing. In a 9-0 vote, Massachusetts became the 28th state in the U.S. to approve the new national standard and another 12 should follow suite by the Fall. In a couple of years the MCAS exam [...]
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How a School Used Technology to Improve Grade level Math from 9% to 62%

By Socrato Admin On July 14, 2010 · Add Comment · In Education Techology, Education: General, Education: Technology
If you’ve ever questioned the impact of technology on education or learning in a school environment, look no further. In the above video learn how Intermediate School 339 in the Bronx used grant money from the NYC Department of Education to purchase laptops and integrate Google apps into lesson plans. While teachers admit students get [...]
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The Future of Online Learning and Test Preparation

By Socrato Admin On July 2, 2010 · 2 Comments · In Test Preparation
Whether you are a student looking to brush up some skills for an upcoming exam such as the SAT or ACT or a tutor looking for an online complement to your instructional course you’ve hit the motherload! I’d like to introduce you to the Khan Academy, a free YouTube channel with more than a thousand [...]
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Free eBook: 5 Tips to Improve Standardized Test Reporting

By Socrato Admin On June 24, 2010 · Add Comment · In Teaching & Tutoring, Testing
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 [...]
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Want to know where to focus for SAT and ACT test prep? Grade test, score results, and get personalized reports at theTestGrader.com

By Raju Gupta On June 9, 2010 · 3 Comments · In Exam: ACT, Teaching & Tutoring
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 [...]
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Release Update | Additional SAT tests now available

By Raju Gupta On May 3, 2010 · Add Comment · In Socrato, Socrato: Release Update
Over the weekend we made release updates to Socrato.com Some of the changes you might notice – In certain situation during Online Take Test (especially for ACT tests), the answer choices were not showing up properly, that issue has been resolved. While printing tests and bubblesheets from library, question content was not printed correctly. This [...]
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