Press Release - July 24, 2007
Vantage Learning Meets California Learning Resource Network's Review Criteria
Leading educational technology resource for teachers and administrators reviews Vantage Learning's MY Access!® and Student Progress Monitoring System as Electronic Learning Assessment Resources
Newtown, Pa., July 24, 2007 - Vantage Learning, Inc., the world's leading provider of online assessment and reporting, automated essay scoring, and instructional writing tools and technologies, announced today that its award-winning online writing program, MY Access!®, and its Student Progress Monitoring System (SPMS) have been reviewed by the California Learning Resource Network (CLRN) as solutions that meet the organization's review criteria.CLRN is a resource for teachers and administrators seeking details about high-quality educational technology programs for their students. Educators who specialize in specific content areas are selected through an application process to review materials for CLRN after completing extensive review training. All programs successfully reviewed by CLRN are required to align with California state content standards, and meet legal and social compliance requirements.
"We are proud that CLRN has reviewed us, and included our top-notch programs as Electronic Learning Assessment Resources on their CLRN site, so that we can help California students prepare for and excel on the California High School Exit Examination (CAHSEE)," said Harry Barfoot, Vantage Learning's Vice President of Marketing. "SPMS helps teachers identify at-risk students and key improvement areas, while providing ongoing custom and targeted feedback and opportunities for students to excel. MY Access!, in addition to being a valuable asset in test preparation, is used in classrooms around the world to increase students' skills and confidence in their writing. By building better writers, we believe we create better students and learners across the curriculum."
MY Access! is Vantage Learning's Web-based instructional writing tool that instantly scores student essays, and provides immediate focused and targeted instruction that engages and motivates students. To use MY Access!, students simply write an essay based on a teacher's assignment, then submit the essay to the MY Access! system. MY Access! instantly analyzes over 300 semantic, syntactic, and discourse characteristics, then scores student essays on focus and meaning, organization, content and development, language use and style, mechanics and conventions, and overall writing proficiency.
Information about Vantage Learning's MY Access! and SPMS can be found on the Vantage Learning Web site at www.VantageLearning.com.
About Vantage Learning
Delivering more than 193 million online test transactions last year, Vantage Learning is recognized as the leader in cost-effective, high volume, secure, scalable online assessment and instructional programs for K-12 and higher education. Leveraging technology such as artificial intelligence, natural language understanding, and web-based learning objects, Vantage provides educators with high-quality tools and resources that motivate students to learn and that create meaningful interactions between students, parents and teachers.
Acknowledged by industry leaders as the gold standard for scoring quality, consistency, reliability, and scalability of automated essay scoring using the patented IntelliMetric® engine, Vantage Learning has received accolades ranging from the prestigious CODiE Award for best instructional technology to recognition by Eduventures as one of the eight most innovative educational technology companies.