New Scoring Structure Planned for Early Childhood Assessment

Dec. 21, 2011 - PRLog -- Professor Eugene Galanter, Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Children's Progress, Inc. today announced the planned release of a new actionable scoring structure for the company's early education adaptive assessment, the Children’s Progress Academic Assessment (CPAA).

This scoring technology will have two major consequences. It will first provide psychometrically and psychophysically validated measures of the two major branches of early education, mathematics and language arts. Further, it will give teachers additional quantitative information, keyed to the observable educational differences among young children. This will drive individualized learning to reduce and close early childhood performance gaps that may lead to later educational failures.

These data will give teachers and administrators information about the growth and potential of children in reading and calculating in prekindergarten through third grade. The technology will also extend parental information that is currently provided to parents of children in Children’s Progress client schools.

The new technology will be included in the August 2012 release of the Children's Progress Academic Assessment (CPAA). This new program will be available to elementary schools, both public and private for review on June 15, 2012.

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Children’s Progress is an award-winning company that develops engaging, adaptive programs for young children that help educators pinpoint how to challenge and support each child. The company grew out of decades of research at Columbia University and patented its unique adaptive assessment engine in collaboration with MIT. Children’s Progress’ diagnostic assessments, web-based reports and instructional recommendations are designed to support the ongoing formative assessment process and drive decision making. Children’s Progress assessments cover early literacy and mathematics and are available in English and Spanish. The company works with state agencies, districts, schools and early learning centers nationwide.