Pressroom: High-tech Help Comes to Rescue of High-Stakes Testing

High-Tech Help Comes to Rescue in High-Stakes Testing
Researchers Collaborate with FableVision to Launch BrainCogs™ "Cognitive Coaching" CD-ROM for Student Test-Taking Success"
BOSTON, MA
Educational researchers at the Research Institute for Learning & Development and FableVision, an award-winning educational media and technology developer, announced the release of the new "BrainCogs™" educational CD-ROM. Based on Research ILD's decade-plus research on strategic learning and instruction, the musical and animated CD is designed to be an interactive "coach" for learning & studying. Created and published by FableVision, the CD has been hailed by National Education Association President Bob Chase as a tool that, "coaches all students to learn, study, and ultimately to navigate their true potential. It is a powerful tool to help realize our goal of leaving no child behind."
The PC/Mac CD-ROM, containing ten hours of animation and activities, helps students develop a personalized plan to enhance the five cognitive processes (a.k.a. "BrainCogs™") involved in test-taking. A "cognitively challenged" band of musicians serve as tour guides throughout the program developing a story-based context for the learning as well as a parallel track of curriculum-based material.
Director of Assessment & Research at Lexington-based Research Institute of Learning & Development Dr. Lynn Meltzer shares, "We're determined to help challenged learners who face debilitating stress and failure in the face of constant testing - FableVision took our research to a new level and helped us share it with millions of students we can't personally reach." Dr. Meltzer is also a member of Harvard University's Graduate School of Education and Tufts University's Department of Child Study.
Funding for the "BrainCogs™" CD-ROM came from a U.S. Department of Education STAR schools grant and has already been distributed to thousands of STAR schools across the nation.
FableVision Studios leverages a wide range of traditional and new media platforms to rethink traditional tools for educators and learners. With a national reputation for producing award-winning learning applications and professional development tools/media for broadcasters, K-12 and museums, FableVision is planning major expansion of its educational publishing operations over the next several years.
Research ILD is a highly esteemed international organization of psychologists and educators dedicated to empowering students to "learn how to learn." More information about the CD-ROM can be obtained at http://www.braincogs.com.

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