Coming Soon
The Innovation Continues!
learning for all children in your classrooms. Here's a quick look at
some of the exciting products and new features we're developing:
Sensory Screener
Vision and hearing deficits often go undetected in young children, and unfortunately can have an extremely negative impact on learning and development. Our sensory screener will check for potential deficits in visual acuity, color vision and hearing. The screener will be independently completed by children in PK - Grade 3 in the span of about 10 minutes - saving teachers and school nurses time and providing valuable information. This data about children's physical development will be fully integrated with our academic assessments. With the help of this screener, a teacher will be able to quickly identify whether a learning difficulty can be attributed to a possible hearing or vision deficit.
This project is being prepped for a commercial beta in September 2008.
Interactive Instructional Activities
Our assessments currently deliver targeted recommended activities that are meant to be administered by a teacher. We’re now developing independently completed instructional activities tailored to address each child’s needs. For example, if a child is confusing addition for subtraction (e.g., 3-2=5), a tailored computer tutorial will be delivered to that child. If a child is simply combining the numbers to come up with an answer (e.g., 3-2=32), the child will view a different tutorial. Children will be engaged in a virtual environment where they will be able to create their own avatars and interact in a virtual schoolhouse populated with classrooms of custom-designed tutorials..
This project, funded through a grant from the US Department of Education, is being prepped for a commercial beta in September 2008.
Parental Reports
There is indisputable evidence that when parents are involved in their children’s education at home, (especially during the early years) children do better in school. In fall 2008, Children’s Progress will release parental reports as an additional commercial beta feature of our current assessments. Schools will have the opportunity to provide parents with valuable information about their child’s learning - and, more importantly, with instructional activities that parents can perform with the child at home.
