ALEKS Corporation Offers New High School Geometry Course.Enhancements Powered by Upgraded Intelligence Engine, ALEKS AI-2 TUSTIN, Calif. -- ALEKS Corporation, a leading provider in K-12, Higher Education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. , and consumer Web-based assessment and learning solutions for mathematics, today announced the release of an upgraded High School Geometry geometry [Gr.,=earth measuring], branch of mathematics concerned with the properties of and relationships between points, lines, planes, and figures and with generalizations of these concepts. course product designed to create a more productive and rewarding learning process for students and teachers. The new ALEKS AI-2 intelligence engine makes the course more student-friendly and reduces faculty workload. ALEKS developed the new AI-2 intelligence engine based upon extensive feedback from instructors and students about each of the courses offered. The ALEKS AI-2 engine enhances this course with more accurate assessments and greater flexibility in directing student learning. In addition, the course features over 40 new problem types and a content editor that allows the teacher to remove over 100 topics, allowing for better curriculum coverage and class customization. The High School Geometry course also incorporates realistic input tools, including proof and construction tools, that create a free response environment. "It's critical to ALEKS that we continually build on the learning solutions that propel pro·pel tr.v. pro·pelled, pro·pel·ling, pro·pels To cause to move forward or onward. See Synonyms at push. [Middle English propellen, from Latin student success," said JP Lenney, Senior Vice President of ALEKS Corporation. "The new High School Geometry course will allow teachers to better meet the unique learning needs of each student, while delivering the enhanced benefits that our users requested." The new High School Geometry course is ready for immediate use as a core curriculum product or as a supplement for remediation, intervention, gifted or after school programs. About ALEKS Corporation ALEKS Corporation is a leader in the creation of Web-based artificially intelligent educational software. ALEKS assessment and learning technologies were originally developed by a team of cognitive scientists Below are some notable researchers in cognitive science. Computer science
Linguistics and software engineers at the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). , Irvine, with major funding from the National Science Foundation. ALEKS is founded on groundbreaking research into cognitive psychology cognitive psychology, school of psychology that examines internal mental processes such as problem solving, memory, and language. It had its foundations in the Gestalt psychology of Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Köhler, and Kurt Koffka, and in the work of Jean and applied mathematics. Through adaptive questioning, ALEKS accurately assesses a student's knowledge state, and then delivers targeted instruction on the topics a student is most ready to learn. ALEKS is currently being used by hundreds of thousands of students in more than 20 academic subjects ranging from elementary school elementary school: see school. mathematics to precalculus pre·cal·cu·lus n. A course of study taken as a prerequisite for the study of calculus. pre·cal  cu·lus adj. at thousands of schools and other educational
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