Carnegie Learning Wins Grant to Study Web-Based Cognitive Assessment Systems; Only Grant Awarded in Math Education This Year.News Editors/Education Writers PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 18, 2004 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. , in collaboration with 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). and Worchester Polytechnic Institute (WPI WPI - Worcester Polytechnic Institute ), received a $1.4 million grant from the Institute for Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education. The companies are joining together to study a Web-based computer tutor "Assistment" system that will help students prepare for standardized mathematics tests. Carnegie Learning captured the only I.E.S. grant awarded to mathematics education this year. The grant provides funds for these institutions to answer a pressing question: how to satisfy the No Child Left Behind mandate to keep schools accountable for student test scores, without taking away valuable instruction time to administer exams. The proposed solution: to use the dynamic assessment capability of the Cognitive Tutors to gauge students as they learn. The system goes beyond a normal assessment in that it not only predicts a student's score on a standardized test 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] ; it also provides feedback to teachers about how they can adapt lessons to address gaps in students' knowledge. The work will focus on targeting Cognitive Tutor materials towards Massachusetts' MCAS McCune-Albright syndrome (MCAS) A genetic syndrome characterized in girls by the development of ovarian cysts and puberty before the age of 8, together with abnormalities of bone structure and skin pigmentation. Mentioned in: Ovarian Cysts exam and on developing new statistical methods for predicting state exam performance, based on the detailed data on student performance available from the Tutors. Researchers expect the results to apply to many different test situations, not just the MCAS. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Steven Ritter rit·ter n. pl. ritter A knight. [German, from Middle High German riter, from Middle Dutch ridder, from r , Senior Cognitive Scientist at Carnegie Learning, "We believe that a careful examination of the complete record of student inputs, help requests and timing data across a full school year will allow us to predict state exam results with a high degree of accuracy. This type of data will give parents, teachers and students great confidence that their work in the Cognitive Tutor course is preparing them for their state exams." "It's not just going to say 'these kids aren't learning fractions.' It will teach them fractions. There's a real challenge of providing instruction that adapts to an individual student's needs," said principal investigator Kenneth R. Koedinger, an associate professor of human-computer interaction in Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science. About Carnegie Learning Carnegie Learning is the developer of the Cognitive Tutor(R) comprehensive curricula for secondary mathematics. Established in 1998 by researchers, teachers and scholars from Carnegie Mellon University, 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 now serve more than 150,000 students in 46 of the nation's largest school districts, including Austin, Chicago, Dallas, 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 Diego, 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 currently include Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II and Integrated Math. |
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