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WASHINGTON, March 4, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As debate continues over approaches to best measure teacher effectiveness based in part on student test scores, ETS's 14th Angoff Memorial Lecture will address this topic. The event will be held on March 22 at the National Press Club, 529 14th St. NW, 13th Floor, from 2-3:30 p.m. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120110/DC33419LOGO) The lecture is expected to draw hundreds of educators, policymakers, legislators and...
BSG Financial will provide sales and marketing expertise for financial institutions who are in the market for innovative solutions. Social IQ and Insight IQ are both web-enabled software programs that meet compliance and meet the customer's expectations. Louisville, KY (PRWEB) February 27, 2013 BSG Financial is excited to announce its partnership with Insight CRM Solutions. BSG will provide sales and marketing expertise for Insight’s newly developed permission- based electronic...
Bright Education™, developer of The Standard Method for Mastering the Standards™, offers practice system with latest study techniques to increase student performance on STAR tests. San Diego, CA (PRWEB) February 21, 2013 Back to school in 2013 means California teachers and students are gearing up for STAR testing, the program used to determine how well students and schools are performing. Depending on each school’s schedule and the guidelines provided by the California Department of...
The Global Education Company, Berlitz, is Using OWL Testing Software to Deliver English Proficiency Testing for the Government of Colombia Pittsburgh, PA (PRWEB) February 13, 2013 OWL Testing Software, a premier provider of test management systems, announced today that the global education company, Berlitz, and its language-testing division, Second Language Testing, Inc (SLTI), are using the OWL Test Management System. Berlitz recently purchased an OWL Test Management System site license...
Leadership IQ, a top-rated research and management consulting firm, is offering leaders and managers across all industries the chance to experience a world-class E-Learning training program, absolutely free. Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) February 08, 2013 Leadership IQ, a top-rated research and management consulting firm, is offering leaders and managers across all industries the chance to experience a world-class E-Learning training program, absolutely free. Participants will receive access to the...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, Feb. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Westerners place a strong value on public lands, saying they are "essential" to their state's economy and quality of life, according to the 2013 Colorado College State of the Rockies Conservation in the West poll. "Westerners see the permanent protection of their public lands as an economic imperative, and essential to their quality of life," said Colorado College economist and State of the Rockies Project faculty director...
NEW YORK, Jan. 29, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Topping iMediaEthics' 2013 fifth annual Dubious Polling Awards is Neil Newhouse and his associates at Public Opinion Strategies, who've won the "Wishing Won't Make It So" Award. The annual Dubious Polling Awards ranks some of the most questionable and problematic polling efforts of 2012. Newhouse and Public Opinion Strategies earned this coveted award because of their pre-election polling for Mitt Romney that suggested the former...
Researchers to address next-generation assessments PRINCETON, N.J., Jan. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In response to fundamental shifts in societal views about teaching, learning and assessment, ETS has created a new Center for Advanced Psychometrics (CAP). The Center will focus on developing and applying psychometric models to support the development, analysis and scoring of a new generation of assessments. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120110/DC33419LOGO)...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Parents seeking ways to boost the IQs of their young children can do so by making sure they choose a high-quality preschool, encouraging them to read, and supplementing their diets with fish oil, researchers from the New York University (NYU) Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development claim in a recently published study. Writing in the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science, doctoral student John Protzko...
ATLANTA, Jan. 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Analytics-IQ, Inc. (AIQ) a leading provider of predictive solutions for the marketing industry, today launched its "Consumer Financial Intelligence" (CFI) suite of predictive econometric marketing tools, the most accurate indicator of financial status by household. CFI is based on AIQ's proprietary database, which is six years in the making and consists of more than 1,500 demographic, psychographic, attitudinal and econometric...
