Trenton, NJ and Bridgeport, CT Participate in RAND Evaluation of Carnegie Learning Math Curricula.Sixteen hundred Middle School & High School Students Join Five-Year Study PITTSBURGH -- 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. , Inc., a leading publisher of research-based math curricula, reported today that Trenton City, NJ and Bridgeport, CT School Districts are among the regions participating in a five-year study funded by the U.S. Department of Education and conducted by RAND Corporation Rand Corporation, research institution in Santa Monica, Calif.; founded 1948 and supported by federal, state, and local governments, as well as by foundations and corporations. Its principal fields of research are national security and public welfare. . The study will evaluate the effectiveness of Carnegie Learning's technology-based Algebra I curriculum across a wide range of students and environments. Trenton City and Bridgeport support a combined 58 schools and more than 34,000 students. Sixteen hundred algebra students from eight middle schools and high schools, four from each district, will participate in the study which will evaluate the effectiveness of 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 curriculum. The randomized ran·dom·ize tr.v. ran·dom·ized, ran·dom·iz·ing, ran·dom·iz·es To make random in arrangement, especially in order to control the variables in an experiment. experiment requires two schools in each district to use the Carnegie Learning program, and two to continue using the districts' existing Algebra I courses over a two- year period. Carnegie Learning's curricula include classroom instruction and a software program that adapts to the individual student's understanding of algebraic 1. (language) ALGEBRAIC - An early system on MIT's Whirlwind. [CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)]. 2. (theory) algebraic - In domain theory, a complete partial order is algebraic if every element is the least upper bound of some chain of compact elements. concepts to improve their problem-solving skills. In addition to providing text book and software, Carnegie Learning will conduct initial teacher training and ongoing professional development throughout the study. Bridgeport and Trenton City School districts join Macomb (MI) Independent School District, Houston (TX) Independent School District, and the Commonwealth of Kentucky in the U.S. Department of Education funded RAND study. About Carnegie Learning, Inc. (www.carnegielearning.com) Carnegie Learning, Inc. is a leading publisher of core, full-year mathematics solutions as well as supplemental intervention applications for middle school, high school, and postsecondary students. The company's Cognitive Tutor[R] programs are helping more than 475,000 students in over 1300 school districts across 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. succeed in math by integrating interactive software sessions, text, and student-centered classroom lessons into a unique learning platform for algebra readiness, Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II, high-stakes test preparation, and Integrated Math programs. Based in Pittsburgh, PA, Carnegie Learning was founded by 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. 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). in conjunction with veteran mathematics teachers. |
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