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Press Releases  Pearson Digital Learning Enhances NovaNET® Courseware with GED, SAT, and ACT Practice Tests NovaNET Provides Tools to Help ALL Secondary Students Achieve Success Mesa, Ariz. — Oct. 16, 2003 — Pearson Digital Learning today announces the delivery of new GED 2002, SAT, and ACT practice tests through its NovaNET electronic courseware. NovaNET is an award-winning, online, standards-based curriculum and assessment system designed for grades 6-12. The NovaNET system’s GED, SAT, and ACT practice tests provide students with the opportunity to practice with the key concepts, problem solving strategies, test length, and test item formats found in the GED 2002 test, and SAT and ACT exams. The practice tests allow the instructor and the student to determine the student’s readiness to take the official exam, as well as help students improve their test-taking skills prior to taking the exam. "Secondary learning institutions have extremely diverse audiences and needs, which is why the NovaNET system is so highly regarded by schools across the country," said Sandra Lassiter, senior product manager. "Whether it's helping at-risk students recapture credit and obtain their GED, or by helping students prepare for collage placement exams, NovaNET's vast resources make it an essential tool for today's high schools." The NovaNET system features two new GED 2002 practice tests. Each includes subtests in writing, social studies, science, language arts and mathematics, with questions in a multiple-choice format. The math test also includes approximately 10 short-answer items, which is new for GED 2002. In addition, every GED candidate must satisfactorily complete a timed essay on an assigned topic. “We have groundbreaking scientific knowledge about the learning process, but schools are restrained by the multiple obstacles of shrinking financial resources, mounting social pressure, students’ personal learning barriers and an unprecedented explosion of information,” he said. “Fortunately, the education industry is beginning to focus on how to manage learning with technology rather than simply managing technology.” The SAT practice exam contains three verbal subtests and three math subtests. The verbal subtests test a student’s knowledge of analogies, sentence completions, and critical reading. The math subtests ask students to make quantitative comparisons, and answer multiple choice and open-ended math questions. Each subtest may be taken individually and is timed. Two and one-half hours should be allowed for completion of the entire test. The ACT practice exam contains four subtests — English, math, reading and science. The ACT is a timed test and three hours should be allowed for completion of the entire test. NovaNET also offers prescriptive curriculum aligned to GED, SAT, and ACT standards and objectives. The GED, SAT, and ACT prescriptive curriculum begins with a pre-test for each module of instruction. Lessons are assigned or prescribed by the system based on pre-test results. Once the student completes all the assigned lessons in the module, they must pass a post-test before they are allowed to advance to the next module. If the student fails the post-test, the system prescribes lessons again based on post-test results. Students automatically move through the modules based on their performance on the pre- and post-tests. The prescriptive method allows students to focus their learning on skills and concepts that they have not yet mastered and allows them to skip lessons that cover skills and concepts in which they have demonstrated mastery. The GED, SAT, and ACT prescriptive curriculum helps students prepare to take the GED 2002, SAT or ACT exam, and the practice tests allow instructors and students to determine when they are prepared to take the actual exam. The practice tests also allow students to practice and improve their test-taking skills prior to taking the official exam. The GED, SAT and ACT practice tests will be distributed to all
current NovaNET subscribers at no additional charge. About the NovaNET SystemThe NovaNET system delivers the most comprehensive,
interactive and engaging online curriculum, testing, assessment,
student management, and record-keeping, designed specifically for
middle and high school learners. The NovaNET system’s thousands
of hours of basic skills, middle and high school English, mathematics,
science, social studies, electives, ESL, GED preparation, SAT/ACT
preparation, life skills, school-to-work, and post-secondary curriculum
and assessment programs are aligned to national and state standards.
Continuously upgraded and enhanced, it continues to evolve to incorporate
the latest technology and meet the changing needs of education. About Pearson Digital Learning Working side by side with educators for over 40 years, Pearson Digital Learning is the leader in proven, comprehensive technologies for preK-12 education. Our mission is to provide innovative, research-based digital learning solutions that elevate the art and science of teaching, and inspire children to reach their greatest potential. Reaching more than 20 million students annually, our products include: the SuccessMaker® Enterprise and NovaNET® educational courseware; the KnowledgeBox® digital learning system; Concert™ solution for integrated instructional management, and SASIxp™ student information system. Pearson Digital Learning is also the exclusive distributor for the Waterford Early Reading Program™ and Waterford Early Math & Science™, adaptive computer-based instruction developed by the Waterford Institute. Pearson Digital Learning is part of Pearson
Education (NYSE: PSO), the world’s leading integrated
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