Pearson Knowledge Technologies' Summary Street is Finalist in Software & Information Industry Association's 2006 Codie Awards; Recognized in ''Best Instructional Solution: Language Arts/English - Secondary'' Category.BOULDER, Colo. -- Pearson Knowledge Technologies (PKT) announced today that Summary Street(R), a Web-based reading comprehension Reading comprehension can be defined as the level of understanding of a passage or text. For normal reading rates (around 200-220 words per minute) an acceptable level of comprehension is above 75%. and writing instruction tool, is a finalist in the Software & Information Industry Association's (SIIA (Software & Information Industry Association, Washington, DC, www.siia.net) A trade organization devoted to the health and welfare of the software and digital content industry by providing support in government relations, business development, education and intellectual property ) 21st Annual Codie Awards. Summary Street, whose technology is part of the basis of PKT's new WriteToLearn(TM) product, is honored in the "Best Instructional Solution: Language Arts/English - Secondary" category. This year, Codie Awards judges selected finalists from a record 1,026 nominations from more than 500 companies. Established in 1986, the Codie Awards recognize outstanding achievement and vision in the software, digital content and education technology industries. The Codie Awards are renowned as the "Oscars of the software industry." "The Best Instructional Solution: Language Arts/English - Secondary" category awards the best school-based education technology solution for Language Arts/English curriculum or content for students in grades 6-12. Summary Street is a Web-based reading comprehension and writing instruction tool. Students use their own words to write summaries of short online texts, such as social studies or science chapters or any supplementary text. Summary Street automatically compares the student's writing to each of the sections of the text and provides immediate feedback about the content coverage on a section-by-section basis. Online feedback includes information on coherence, spelling, redundancy and irrelevant sentences. Feedback can be tied directly to any pieces of content that should be covered in the summary. "Reading comprehension is key to learning a subject. Writing summaries of learning materials is a proven way of increasing student mastery of content and written expression," said Lynn Streeter, president, PKT. "This product makes it possible for teachers to give students practice in these important skills. It is exciting to have Summary Street recognized by the Codie Awards." PKT co-developed Summary Street with the Institute of Cognitive Science cognitive science Interdisciplinary study that attempts to explain the cognitive processes of humans and some higher animals in terms of the manipulation of symbols using computational rules. at the University of Colorado University of Colorado may refer to:
"The 21st Annual Codie Awards continue the tradition of honoring the best of the software, information and education technology industries," said Ken Wasch, president, SIIA. "When one considers the number of outstanding companies that competed this year, being named a Codie Awards Finalist is a significant achievement." The Codie Awards is the only peer-recognition awards program of its kind in the industry, providing a unique opportunity for companies to earn the praise of their competitors. The 2006 Codie Awards will be presented at a gala event on May 16, 2006, at the Westin St. Francis Hotel The Westin St. Francis is a luxury hotel in the Union Square district of San Francisco, California. The hotel opened on March 21, 1904. The interior was destroyed in the 1906 Earthquake but the structure survived and the hotel re-opened in late 1907. in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , Calif. For more information about Summary Street, visit www.pearsonkt.com. About the Software & Information Industry Association The Software & Information Industry Association is the principal trade association for the software and digital content industry. SIIA provides global services in government relations, business development, corporate education and intellectual property protection to the leading companies that are setting the pace for the digital age. Go to www.siia.net for further information. About Pearson Knowledge Technologies Pearson Knowledge Technologies is the developer of products and services based on the only automated text analysis technology that evaluates the meaning of whole passages. The company's Knowledge Analysis Technologies(TM) (KAT kat katal. kat abbr. katal kat katal. ) engine immediately measures writing and content in a way that simulates a skilled human grader and encourages better subject knowledge. Pearson Knowledge Technologies' writing and reading skills products, such as WriteToLearn, Intelligent Essay Assessor and Summary Street, use the KAT engine to help improve writing, reading and comprehension skills as well as build content knowledge for education and other markets. Pearson Knowledge Technologies is a business unit of Pearson Education Pearson Education is an international publisher of textbooks and other educational material, such as multimedia learning tools. Pearson Education is part of Pearson PLC. It is headquartered in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. , the world's leading integrated education The Integrated Education movement in Northern Ireland is an attempt to bring together children, parents and teachers from both Roman Catholic and Protestant traditions, the aim being to provide a balanced education, while allowing the opportunity to understand and respect all company, which in turn is part of Pearson (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :PSO PSO - Oracle Parallel Server ), the international media company. |
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