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ALEKS Now Integrated with All 50 States' Standards.


Offers Dynamic Reporting on Student Progress toward State Standards

TUSTIN, Calif. -- ALEKS Corporation, a leading provider of 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 that its K-12 course products for grades 3-8 are now integrated with all 50 states' standards. The integrated courses include Mathematics LV 3, 4, 5, and 6; Middle School Math 1, 2 and 3; and Pre-Algebra. ALEKS course products offer individualized instruction Individualized instruction is a method of instruction in which content, instructional materials, instructional media, and pace of learning are based upon the abilities and interests of each individual learner.  and feature the following:

* ALEKS Artificial Intelligence - targets gaps in individual student knowledge;

* Comprehensive & Customizable Curriculum - aligns to state standards and can be easily integrated with syllabi syl·la·bi  
n.
A plural of syllabus.
 or textbooks;

* Robust Student Progress Reports - monitor student, class, school and district progress toward state standards;

* Fully Bilingual - English and Spanish for grades 3-9;

* Unlimited Online Access - PC & MAC compatible from virtually any computer with Internet access See how to access the Internet. .

The ALEKS state standards integration enables detailed reporting that allows teachers and administrators a precise view of every student's knowledge at any time. Reports can be viewed for a student, class, school, or district and let teachers and administrators track progress toward fulfillment of state standards.

ALEKS developed the new state standards integration in order to address the growing demand for accountability and measurable success in K-12 education. "It's critical to ALEKS that we continually build upon 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 Wil Lampros, President of ALEKS Corporation. "The new course products integrated with state standards allow teachers to better meet the unique learning needs of each student. With the variety of reports offered by ALEKS, teachers and administrators always have an accurate picture of student progress toward state standards and can use ALEKS to target any gaps," he added.

Fundamentally different from other educational software, ALEKS (Assessment and LEarning in Knowledge Spaces) uses an artificial intelligence engine that assesses each student individually and continuously. Through adaptive questioning, ALEKS accurately assesses a student's knowledge and then delivers targeted instruction on the exact topics a student is most ready to learn. As the student learns new topics, ALEKS constantly updates its map of the student's knowledge.

The new ALEKS K-12 courses integrated with state standards can be implemented as a core curriculum or supplement for use in 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.

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 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 in 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·calcu·lus adj.
 at thousands of schools and other educational institutions throughout the world. For additional information, visit http://www.aleks.com.
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