An important part of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, was accountability with regards to educational assessment and testing. An educational assessment measures a child's skill in a particular area. An educational assessment, for example, can measure literacy, math or science achievement.
Wireless Generation is the leading provider of handheld software for preK-12 educational assessments. The company's customer base includes ten state Reading First contracts, and an increasing number of the country's largest districts. The foremost researchers in the field of reading collaborated with the company to develop handheld versions of their educational assessment, including Dr. Barbara Foorman and Dr. Jack Fletcher of the Center for Academic and Reading Skills (CARS) at the University of Texas-Houston; Dr. Roland Good and Dr. Ruth Kaminski at the University of Oregon; and Dr. Marcia Invernizzi at the University of Virginia. During the spring of 2004, Wireless Generation worked with Dr. Susan Landry and her team at the Center for Improving the Readiness of Children for Learning and Education (CIRCLETM) to develop a handheld version of CIRCLE's preK early literacy assessment and portfolio building tools.
Additionally, Wireless Generation has partnered with leading educational publishers to integrate their material into the company's assessment products. Fifteen of the leading educational publishers have partnered with Wireless Generation to offer electronic text of their leveled readers on mCLASS®:Reading software, which allows teachers to perform reading records and other observational assessments on the handheld. Harcourt Achieve and Wireless Generation have collaborated to create e*Assessment, a benchmark assessment system that runs on the mCLASS® platform and that is marketed by Harcourt Achieve.
Wireless Generation's rapid success stems from its identity as an education company first and a technology company second. The staff immerses themselves in the complex dynamics of teaching and learning, and listens closely to education professionals - from the classroom teacher to the state school chief. Its solutions are based upon the principle that technology should be easy to use, and should help educators to realize concrete, defined goals and operational efficiencies.
Wireless Generation, Inc. provides educators with the most advanced system for collecting and using assessment data, helping to create a culture of continuous feedback and improvement in classrooms across the country. The company provides in-depth professional development and training services.
The company offers the leading early reading assessments on the mCLASS platform, including TPRI®, DIBELS®, PALS™, Reading Records, CIRCLE™, Tejas LEE®, and Reading 3D™. Each component features Web-based reporting, analysis, data management, and instructional planning tools to provide a complete assessment solution.
Since mCLASS software's introduction in 2002, more than 100,000 educators in 48 states have adopted it for observational assessment. Today, two million PreK-6 students are being assessed using mCLASS solutions.
Wireless Generation continues to develop new products and services based on its mission of maximizing the educational value of every teacher-student interaction.
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