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NEW YORK, May 15, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- On Wednesday, April 18, TestingMom.com held an Emergency G&T Session for NYC Parents as the short deadline for their gifted and talented school selection needed to be made by 11:59pm on Friday, April 20. Due to the sheer number of children who qualified for G&T in NYC this year this event was sold out within just a few days. This seminar was held at the Poet's House in Manhattan as parents sat on the edges of their seats to hear...
MALVERN, Pa., May 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Gravic, Inc. is pleased to announce a new streamlined test grading solution to save teachers time and schools money on grading tests, assessments and quizzes. The Remark Test Grading Edition is built on the market leading foundation of the popular Remark Office OMR software. For over 20 years, the Remark Office OMR software has allowed schools to print their own answer sheets on plain paper and use image scanners or multi-function machines...
A new interview between renowned college experts David Montesano and Anthony-James Green encourages students to ignore most details and to narrow their focus as early as possible in their high school careers. Montesano and Green have just combined their perspectives on a new recorded interview, Every College Question Answered, which they hope will topple the deep-seated and ill-advised college beliefs currently held by many American students and their parents. New York, NY (PRWEB) May 12,...
Two out of every three eight-graders in the United States are lacking when it comes to basic scientific knowledge, data from a 2011 examination administered by the Department of Education released Thursday has revealed. According to Wall Street Journal reporter Stephanie Banchero , only 32% of students who took the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) were sufficiently proficient in science. On the positive side, that is an increase of 2% from the first time the revised...
PRINCETON, N.J., May 10, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Educational Testing Service (ETS) Board of Trustees today announced the creation of a research chair to honor the late Ralph W. Tyler, a scientific pioneer in the field of large-scale educational assessment. Dr. Irwin S. Kirsch, currently a Distinguished Presidential Appointee in ETS's Research & Development division, has been named as the first holder of the Ralph W. Tyler Chair in Large-Scale Assessment -- ETS's...
HOUSTON, May 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Children who have learning disabilities can get good SAT scores thanks to a new online SAT preparation course, "SAT Success Coach," designed by SAT Prep Consultant Megan Dorsey, who served as a college counselor at Westside High School, where she developed the SAT and college planning curriculum for the Houston Independent School District (HISD). "Kids who have learning disabilities can score high on the SAT, get scholarships and attend the...
PracticeQuiz.com, a site that offers free exam prep, has made a high quality set of 232 free practice questions covering food safety topics available. Boston, MA (PRWEB) May 01, 2012 PracticeQuiz.com, a website that provides high quality free practice exams has recently added a free food safety exam to its website with 232 questions with detailed rationales. The questions will be especially helpful for anyone trying to pass a local, state or national food safety exam such as the ServSafe...
Entries now being accepted -- winner to get $7,000 PRINCETON, N.J., May 1, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Educational Testing Service (ETS) is now taking entries from game developers and educators for a contest to create a computer game or mobile app that acts as a K-12 math assessment. One grand prize winner will receive $7,000 and an all-expense-paid trip for one person to showcase the winning project in a learning and games demo space at ETS in Princeton, N.J. (Logo:...
PracticeQuiz.com, a website devoted to offering free practice exams, has added 12 more free practice tests. It now has a total of 37 free simulated multiple choice exams. Boston, MA (PRWEB) April 29, 2012 PracticeQuiz.com, a site devoted to providing high quality free practice exams has recently added significant amounts of free test prep review content. Unlike other free test prep sites, PracticeQuiz.com provides significant quantities of exam practice questions with full descriptive...
A new piece of software designed to automatically read and grade student essays may be able to do just as good of a job as humans, according to a new study. The study ran over 16,000 essays from middle school and high school tests through automated systems developed by nine companies. The essays came from six different states and had originally been graded by a human, and the researchers set out to find whether a computer using software would be comparable to the human grading. The...
