Aptex announces VITAL ResourceMiner -- School District Edition and Publisher Edition.SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Monday, Nov. 25, 1996-- First electronic solutions to align school curriculum and correlate publishers' materials Aptex Software Inc. Monday announced two new education products: VITAL ResourceMiner -- School District Edition, the first electronic solution to automatically align curriculum to educational objectives, instructional materials and assessments; and VITAL ResourceMiner -- Publisher Edition, the first solution to automatically correlate educational publishers' materials to instructional requirements. "VITAL ResourceMiner maximizes student achievement, empowers teachers and increases curriculum effectiveness," said Michael Thiemann, Aptex president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "Aptex is committed to enhancing the quality of education. These new products will help schools and publishers ensure that educational objectives and standards are met, with the very best instructional materials available. VITAL ResourceMiner -- School District Edition VITAL ResourceMiner -- School District Edition aligns all aspects of the curriculum, including national and state requirements, district objectives, publishers' instructional content and all standardized tests A standardized test is a test administered and scored in a standard manner. The tests are designed in such a way that the "questions, conditions for administering, scoring procedures, and interpretations are consistent" [1] to help schools integrate resources and provide superior instruction. VITAL ResourceMiner identifies the most relevant resources to address objectives, retrieving all content from any instructional materials, and understanding and matching concepts Matching concept The accounting principle that requires the recognition of all costs that are associated with the generation of the revenue reported in the income statement. , not just words. Using VITAL ResourceMiner, teachers can individualize in·di·vid·u·al·ize tr.v. in·di·vid·u·al·ized, in·di·vid·u·al·iz·ing, in·di·vid·u·al·iz·es 1. To give individuality to. 2. To consider or treat individually; particularize. 3. instruction for each student. By entering specific requirements and objectives which match student needs or interests, teachers can use Vital ResourceMiner to view directly related materials in textbooks, supplementary materials, software, or multimedia. VITAL ResourceMiner includes a comprehensive base of information which supports teacher training and professional development. Teachers can use VITAL ResourceMiner to instantly access and understand the content of available educational research on topics such as educational trends, instructional strategies or classroom practices. VITAL ResourceMiner also supports administrative activities by retrieving information about state and national guidelines guidelines, n.pl a set of standards, criteria, or specifications to be used or followed in the performance of certain tasks. , including rules and regulations, legal precedents and funding opportunities that match a school district's profile. Administrators can respond immediately and make informed decisions about situations involving compliance issues, tenure procedures, grants and other administrative procedures. VITAL ResourceMiner -- Publisher Edition VITAL ResourceMiner -- Publisher Edition electronically correlates publishers' instructional materials to all available instructional objectives and assessments, significantly reducing the production time and staff resources needed to produce correlation reports. VITAL ResourceMiner increases the consistency, accuracy and thoroughness of correlation reports and decreases the subjectivity and bias inherent in existing manual correlation methods. Using VITAL ResourceMiner, publishers can provide detailed, accurate correlations to school districts immediately upon request. They can also calculate program coverage and evaluate the content of their current product line. New products subsequently can be developed, with the assurance that the content of instructional materials will meet course requirements. VITAL ResourceMiner -- Publisher Edition simultaneously correlates materials across grade levels, across products, and across subject areas. State and national outcomes and assessments can be accessed for use in correlations, and foreign language texts can also be accurately correlated to English objectives. With headquarters in San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , Aptex Software develops intelligent software solutions which "mine" content to enhance mission-critical decisions and processes. Aptex uses proprietary neural network neural network or neural computing, computer architecture modeled upon the human brain's interconnected system of neurons. Neural networks imitate the brain's ability to sort out patterns and learn from trial and error, discerning and extracting techniques to automate key document analysis processes and to predict trends and behavior based on learned document content. Aptex Software is a subsidiary of HNC (HNC Software Inc., San Diego, CA) A software company that specialized in products that detect credit card fraud, manage merchant risk, automate lending decisions and home valuations and manage retail inventories. Founded in 1986 by Robert Hecht-Nielsen and Todd W. Software Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :HNCS HNCS Host Naval Computer System HNCS Host Navy Combat Systems ), a world leader in the application of neural network technology in client/server environments A networking environment that is made up of clients and servers running applications designed for client/server architecture. See client/server. , serving the payment systems, financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , insurance, retail, educational publishing, direct marketing and market research markets. For more information about Aptex or VITAL ResourceMiner, contact the company's World Wide Web site at http://www.aptex.com, or contact Jane Leonard, Marketing Communications Marketing communications (or marcom) are messages and related media used to communicate with a market. Those who practice advertising, branding, direct marketing, graphic design, marketing, packaging, promotion, publicity, sponsorship, public relations, sales, sales Manager, 9605 Scranton Road, Ste. 240, San Diego, Calif. 92121; Phone 619/646-0121; Fax 619/623-0558; e-mail jleonard@aptex.com CONTACT: Aptex Software Inc., San Diego Jane Leonard, 619/646-0121 |
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