WriteToLearn Wins 2007 Distinguished Achievement Award From Association of Educational Publishers
Web-Based Learning Tool Honored as Best Reading and Language Instruction Web Site for Grades 6-8
BOULDER, Colo. - June 15, 2007 - WriteToLearn™ from Pearson Knowledge Technologies is the winner of a 2007 Distinguished Achievement Award from the Association of Educational Publishers (AEP). The Web-based learning tool was honored as the best "Curriculum: Reading and Language Instruction Web Site for Grades 6-8."
With WriteToLearn, students practice essay writing and summarization skills, and their efforts are measured by the state-of-the-art Knowledge Analysis Technologies™ (KAT) engine, which automatically evaluates the meaning of text by examining whole passages, not just grammatical correctness or spelling.
Celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, the Distinguished Achievement Awards recognize the best educational materials - such as books, periodicals, educational toys and software - within subject categories and by audience. As an AEP Award winner, WriteToLearn earns the right to display the Lamp of Learning seal, nationally recognized by educators and administrators as a mark of outstanding quality and achievement.
"We are proud to have WriteToLearn recognized by the leaders of the educational publishing industry," said Lynn Streeter, president, Pearson Knowledge Technologies. "Teachers who use WriteToLearn tell us that they are amazed at the literacy skills their students build when they practice essay writing and summarizing and get immediate, targeted feedback. We are committed to continually updating and expanding WriteToLearn so that it remains the premier tool for developing writing and reading comprehension skills."
Earlier this year, WriteToLearn 3.0 was launched. The newest update of this innovative learning tool now gives student writing a score for each of six traits of writing: ideas, organization, conventions, sentence fluency, word choice and voice. In addition, the more than 100 reading passages available for summarizing in WriteToLearn 3.0 have Lexile® measures. As the most widely adopted reading measure, The Lexile Framework for Reading measures both reader ability and text difficulty on the same scale.
For more information about WriteToLearn, visit www.WriteToLearn.net.
About AEP
The Association of Educational Publishers (AEP), founded in 1895, is a national, nonprofit association devoted to serving and advancing the supplemental educational publishing industry. Its membership represents the many facets of the educational publishing community including publishers, service providers, nonprofit associations, schools, researchers and freelance contributors. With the rapid growth of new educational technologies, AEP members are at the forefront of delivering progressive, educational products and services that address individual learning needs and differences. Please visit www.AEPWeb.org for more information.
About Pearson Knowledge Technologies
Pearson Knowledge Technologies (PearsonKT.com) is the developer of products and services based on a unique automated text analysis technology that evaluates the meaning of whole passages. The company's Knowledge Analysis Technologies (KAT) engine immediately measures writing and content in a way that simulates a skilled human grader and encourages better subject knowledge. Pearson Knowledge Technologies' writing and reading skills products, such as WriteToLearn, Intelligent Essay Assessor and Summary Street, use the KAT engine to help improve writing, reading and comprehension skills as well as build content knowledge for education and other markets.
Pearson Knowledge Technologies is a business of Pearson Education (www.pearsoned.com ), the world's largest integrated education company, which in turn is part of Pearson (NYSE: PSO), the international media company. Pearson's other primary operations include the Financial Times Group and the Penguin Group.
Contacts:
Lisa Wolfe, L. Wolfe Communications, 773-325-9935, lwolfe@lwolfe.com