This is great news for New Jersey. "It reinforces that
learning and testing are comprised of equal parts standards,
curriculum and instruction. Or, teachers can assign quick
assessments that can be administered at the beginning of a 50-minute
class period, followed by a Classworks-generated learning plan the
student works on for the remainder of the period.
There are a total of 8,600 learning activities in Classworks
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"With this system, administrators and teachers will be able to
make much better use of their testing data.
"The quick assessment feature will expand how my teachers can use
Classworks," said Dr.

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ETS is providing
IDMS as a value-added service as part of the existing contract at no
charge to the state. This newest release also includes the fully-integrated
OpenBook Anywhere content for English as a second language (ESL)
students and English language learners and over sixty hours of algebra
and pre-algebra activities.com) from dozens of favorite educational
software programs and all of which are correlated with National
Education Standards in math and language arts.

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NJ ASK is the New Jersey Assessment of Skills and Knowledge,
which tests student achievement in the knowledge and critical thinking
skills defined by the New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards in
language arts literacy, mathematics, and science.

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districts track student achievement, understand performance trends,
improve teaching effectiveness, and analyze results for NCLB
requirements, ETS and the New Jersey Department of Education are
launching a new student data management system throughout the state."
"IDMS is based on the principle of allowing school administrators,
district directors, and teachers to look at data that is specific to
their needs," explains John Oswald, Senior Vice President of
Elementary and Secondary Education at ETS."

ABOUT ETS

ETS is a nonprofit institution with the mission to advance quality
and equity in education by providing fair and valid assessments,
research and related services for all people worldwide."
The new Classworks Benchmarking assessment includes 6,000 test
items that can be assigned in whole units or by skill.

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ETS and N.J. Dept. of Education Launch New Student Data Management Tool for New Jersey School Districts

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In total, Classworks now includes 4,000 hours of learning
activities. Classworks is also aligned with
the five key components of reading instruction: phonemic awareness,
phonics , fluency, vocabulary and comprehension, as defined by the
National Institute for Literacy and the Partnership for Reading. INET Classroom, also from
Curriculum Advantage, is a comprehensive library of web-based
curriculum linked to state and national standards.

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"The Instructional Data Management System allows school personnel
to view any combination of available performance measures for any
group of variables, including gender, ethnicity, District Factor
Group, and Abbott district status," Commissioner Librera said.
"This is a significant upgrade because it simplifies the process
for teachers to get raw test data into Classworks or to use internal
benchmarks that automatically generate relevant learning plans for
each child," said Lindsey Cook, president of Curriculum Advantage .

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In serving
individuals, educational institutions and government agencies around
the world, ETS customizes solutions to meet the need for teacher
professional development products and services , classroom and
end-of-course assessments, and research-based teaching and learning
tools. Classworks State
Editions are further aligned to the learning standards of 15 states so
that teachers can more closely tie their teaching to the core concepts
and competencies prescribed by their state.

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About Curriculum Advantage

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schools in the United States and worldwide.

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easier for teachers to use the 4,000 hours of curriculum and make it
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Scantron Performance Series(TM) and Edusoft(R) data can also be
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"Now any exam data from any source has immediate relevance to the
classroom teacher and she can turn that data into a path to better
student achievement. Classworks
activities are correlated to national and state learning standards and
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Founded in 1947, ETS today develops, administers and scores
more than 24 million tests annually in more than 180 countries , at
over 9,000 locations worldwide.7 now includes a universal
import utility for processing test data and an improved benchmarking
test, which gives teachers greater flexibility in assessing student
proficiency on standardized skills. Classworks Import Editions
are available for Texas, Florida , Mississippi, Georgia, and New York
as well as an Alternet Import Edition for the state of Pennsylvania .

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"This data tool is a major breakthrough and an enormous help for
educators in this state," Commissioner of Education William L. It defines the core knowledge and skills
from state standards that are essential for the grade level or course.

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announced today that it has released its most significant update
to Classworks -- a network-based system of K-12 reading and
mathematics curriculum and learning tools -- since acquiring the
product in March 2003.

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The process uses ETS's Instructional Data Management System
(IDMS), and offers districts powerful, easy-to-use tools to create
tables of data for analyzing and reporting NJ ASK results for 2003 and
2004. "School
personnel can quickly and easily view, compare, and report relative
performance among groups. "In one
class period for example, my teachers can check their students'
understanding of fractions and then let Classworks immediately launch
each student into their own activities that will fill in the gaps of
their understanding.

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Teachers now
have greater flexibility when they create and assign tests measuring a
student's understanding of entire units. Greg Gentry, director of testing and
instructional technology in the Houston County School System.curriculumadvantage. Curriculum
Advantage's flagship product is Classworks, a network-based system of
K-12 reading and mathematics curriculum and learning tools that
currently comprise over 4,000 hours of curriculum.