Carnegie Learning's Cognitive Tutor Selected by U.S. Department of Education for Technology Study; Hand-Picked as One of 16 Technology Based Products Nationwide.Business Editors PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 25, 2004 The U.S. Department of Education chose Carnegie Learning's Cognitive Tutor A cognitive tutor is an intelligent tutoring system which develops a cognitive model of a student as he or she interacts with the program, providing problems and individualized instruction based on this model. (R) Algebra I, a technology and text-based math curriculum, to participate in a governmentally-funded study to begin during the 2004-05 school year. The study will determine the effectiveness of educational technology for learning reading and math and will measure how technology can improve student achievement in those subjects. Carnegie Learning's Senior Cognitive Research Scientist, Steve Ritter rit·ter n. pl. ritter A knight. [German, from Middle High German riter, from Middle Dutch ridder, from r commented, "I'm proud that the Department of Education considered the evidence for Cognitive Tutor's effectiveness to be strong enough to select us for this study. I hope this study will help ensure that educational effectiveness becomes the primary criterion in choosing any educational intervention." The study will be subsidized by two divisions of the U.S. Department of Education, the Institute of Education Sciences and the Office of Educational Technology. The $10 million, congressionally mandated study fulfills the president's principal education initiative, the No Child Left Behind Act The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (Public Law 107-110), commonly known as NCLB (IPA: /ˈnɪkəlbiː/), is a United States federal law that was passed in the House of Representatives on May 23, 2001 . The U.S. Department of Education chose the Cognitive Tutor as one of 16 products to research. Carnegie Learning Carnegie Learning, Inc. is a publisher of math curriculum for middle school, high school, and post-secondary students. The company uses a blended approach, with a textbook and software (called Cognitive Tutor) for each subject. will train teachers from select school districts to implement the Cognitive Tutor in their classrooms during the 2004-05 school year. Mathematica Policy Research and SRI International (company) SRI International - One of the world's largest contract research firms. Founded in 1946 in conjuction with Stanford University as the Stanford Research Institute, they later became fully independent and were incorporated as a non-profit organisation under U.S. , two independent research companies, will assess the student achievement gains over three years using a random-assignment study design. The results will measure the impact the Cognitive Tutor has on student learning, providing educators and policymakers with tangible means to improve student achievement using technology in the classroom. About Carnegie Learning Carnegie Learning is the developer of the Cognitive Tutor comprehensive curricula for secondary mathematics. Established in 1998 by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University, at Pittsburgh, Pa.; est. 1967 through the merger of the Carnegie Institute of Technology (founded 1900, opened 1905) and the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research (founded 1913). , Carnegie Learning was founded to apply and extend more than 20 years of award-winning research in cognitive science to mathematics instruction. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Carnegie Learning's mathematics courses serve more than 150,000 students in 46 of the nation's largest school districts, including Chicago, Denver, Houston, Miami-Dade, New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , Pittsburgh, San Francisco and the Department of Defense Education Activity The Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) is a civilian agency of the United States Department of Defense. It is headed by a director who oversees all agency functions from DoDEA headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. . Available courses include Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II and Integrated Math. |
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