Classworks' Availability over the Internet Increases Power, Reach of Research-Based Education Solution.DULUTH, Ga. -- Curriculum Advantage, Inc. announced today that it has completed the first of a three-phase effort to make all components of Classworks, its flagship instructional solution, available over the Internet, a move that substantially increases the availability of the research-based education solution. District and school administrators can now access Classworks over the World Wide Web to view student and class results in real time. The new web-based access allows for a superintendent or principal to bring up a dashboard to view all Classworks implementations across the district at anytime from anywhere. The views can be as broad as whole district scores, or as granular as a defined demographic in an individual class or a single student. Classworks also generates status reports that can be automatically e-mailed throughout the district. "This is a significant step forward for Classworks," said Lindsey Cook, the 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. of Curriculum Advantage. "Making Classworks available over the Internet dramatically increases superintendents' and principals' ability to evaluate data and to oversee the progress and successes at their schools from wherever they may be." Phases two and three are currently under development. The second phase of Classworks on the Internet is the teacher interface, which will allow classroom teachers to monitor and assign individual learning plans for each student from any computer with an Internet connection. The third phase converts Classworks' content - 5,000 hours of lessons, quizzes and remediation - to a form available via the Internet. To date, some 4,000 of the 10,000 activities are ready for browser-based access. All Classworks content will be available on-line by the time phase two is complete. Classworks is a leader in computer-based student instruction in K-12 for English/Language Arts, Reading and Mathematics. Adapting the content for the Internet is a painstaking process, as the conversion must be completed in such a way as to maintain its research-based integrity. "Much of the power of Classworks is in its research-based instructional design Instructional design is the practice of arranging media (communication technology) and content to help learners and teachers transfer knowledge most effectively. The process consists broadly of determining the current state of learner understanding, defining the end goal of . The unique unit structure that provides differentiated instruction Differentiated instruction (sometimes referred to as differentiated learning) is a way of thinking about teaching and learning. It involves teachers using a variety of instructional strategies that address diverse student learning needs. has been proven effective in raising student achievement through independent research," said Cathy Sump, Curriculum Advantage's director of product marketing. "Maintaining Classworks' sound design while redeveloping the content for web-based delivery means the same effective instruction will be available anytime, anywhere." Classworks was recently recognized by the U.S. Department of Education as one of only a handful of computer-assisted instruction computer-assisted instruction Use of instructional material presented by a computer. Since the advent of microcomputers in the 1970s, computer use in schools has become widespread, from primary schools through the university level and in some preschool programs. programs to demonstrate that it improves student achievement, and has earned several software industry honors. About Curriculum Advantage Curriculum Advantage, Inc. (www.curriculumadvantage.com) is based in Duluth, Ga. Curriculum Advantage's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. is Classworks, a network-based system of K-12 reading and mathematics curriculum and learning tools that currently comprise over 5,000 hours of curriculum. Classworks activities are correlated to national and state learning standards Learning Standards is a term used to describe standards applied to education content, particularly in the US K-12 space. The Learning Standards themselves can can be found on the individual web sites for states [1] and state tests, and include prescriptive pre·scrip·tive adj. 1. Sanctioned or authorized by long-standing custom or usage. 2. Making or giving injunctions, directions, laws, or rules. 3. Law Acquired by or based on uninterrupted possession. and summative assessment Summative assessment (or Summative evaluation) refers to the assessment of the learning and summarises the development of learners at a particular time. After a period of work, e.g. , remediation and reporting tools. Classworks is installed in more than 3,000 schools in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and worldwide. INET INET Internet INET Intranet INET International Networking (conference) INET Institutional Network (Hawaii Department of Education) INET Instinet LLC iNET Integrated Network Enhanced Telemetry Classroom, also from Curriculum Advantage, is a comprehensive library of web-based curriculum linked to state and national standards. |
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