Press Release - June 13, 2005

Vantage Learning's I-Manage™ 2.0 Offers Expanded Services for IntelliMetric®

Automated Essay Scoring Web-based system gives customers greater freedom to administer award-winning essay scoring technology to meet their individual needs

Newtown, PA, June 13, 2005 - Vantage Learning (www.vantagelearning.com) today announced the release of version 2.0 of I-Manage, a web-based management tool first released last year, which allows customers using the IntelliMetric web-services based API to easily integrate automated essay scoring with their writing assessment and instructional applications. Version 2.0 offers significantly greater functionality with expanded web services and line by line feedback.

With I-Manage, customers can accurately score essay responses; provide line by line feedback on spelling, grammar and mechanics; identify parts of speech for each word or phrase; and identify the readability level of the student's essay. I-Manage 2.0 also includes VIOLERT™, which is capable of evaluating a writer's intent to do harm to oneself or others and CLEANSPEAK™, to identify potentially inappropriate words included within the essay.

"I-Manage gives customers an unprecedented level of control over the IntelliMetric essay scoring service," said Harry Barfoot, VP of Sales of Marketing for Vantage Learning. "Customers can now offer a much broader range of essay scoring services to their end users."

Customers can use I-Manage to add new writing prompts and rubrics, as well as allow users to edit both. The tools include several quality control and testing features, which facilitate a smooth and seamless implementation. Customers can easily monitor usage and obtain reports with an easy to use interface that allows selection by date range, prompt and other relevant criteria.

IntelliMetric is the world's most accurate essay scoring engine, using a rich blend of artificial intelligence (AI) and the digitization of human expertise to accurately score and assess examinee responses to open-ended essay questions in a range of subjects. IntelliMetric scores examinee responses to essay questions more accurately than previous versions and all other competitive products on the market. IntelliMetric employs a team of electronic judges to score an essay in less than one second. "It's as if students have direct access to a team of expert teachers to provide feedback on their writing," according to Barfoot.

The results of over 120 studies conducted in range of K-12 and higher education environments found that IntelliMetric scores as accurately as human expert scorers. The scores produced by IntelliMetric agree with the scores assigned by human experts nearly 99% of the time.

About the Vantage Learning Platform

The Vantage Learning Platform™ (VLP) is the most widely used online assessment platform in the world. VLP provides test registration, delivery, and reporting services as well as item banking and test creation services. VLP includes the award-winning IntelliMetric open-ended assessment delivery and scoring engine. Vantage's IntelliMetric uses a rich blend of artificial intelligence and the digitization of human expertise to accurately score and assess a student's competency in a range of subjects. Its inherent flexibilities allow schools to consistently evaluate a student's progress and provide immediate feedback on how students can improve their skills.

About Vantage Learning

Vantage Learning (www.vantagelearning.com), an affiliate of Vantage Laboratories and the leading provider of online assessment and automated essay scoring, developed IntelliMetric® to meet the needs of business, education, and government agencies needing a comprehensive Internet-based test authoring, delivery, scoring and reporting platform. IntelliMetric administers and scores responses to open-ended questions over the Internet using advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technology. An individual can enter a response to a question posed, submit the response, and receive an immediate score with feedback within seconds.

Eduventures has selected Vantage Learning as one of the eight most innovative educational technology companies. MY Access!™, Vantage's instructional writing program that utilizes Intellimetric essay-scoring, earned a 2003 District Administration Top 100 Award and was included in Technology and Learning Magazine's Top 10 Smart Technologies for Schools. A Codie Awards finalist three years in a row, MY Access! recently won the 2005 Codie Award in two categories, "Best Secondary Education Instructional Tool" and "Best English Language Learning Instructional Solution". In addition, MY Access! was awarded the 2004 Award of Excellence from Technology and Learning Magazine.

Vantage Learning provides services in all 50 states directly to end-user clients and provides services to educational leaders such as The College Board, ACT, Harcourt Educational Measurement, CTB/McGraw Hill and Thomson Learning.