MY Access!® News

• July 5, 2007 High-Tech Learning

  -Patrick Michels, Texas Technology It was late in 2004 when the lights first appeared after hours outside Floydada Junior High School. People in neighboring houses didn’t know what to make of them, but each night the lights were back, three or four small blue-white glowing spots against the exterior of the school walls. Not sure […]

• May 6, 2007 Examples of How MY Access Evaluates Essays
• May 6, 2007 Schools Turn To Web Site As Interactive Writing Coach

  -Jenna Cho, The Day Submit, blink and there you have it: an instant evaluation of your essay. The computer-generated score, usually on a scale of 1 to 6, assesses five aspects of writing, including organization, language use and style. Accompanying the score is feedback for improvement. MY Access!, a Web-based computer program, is being used […]

• April 27, 2007 Enter the Computer Tutor: PCs Can Help Kids Pass No Child Left Behind Tests

  -Angie C. Marek, U.S.News & World Report Last summer wasn’t supposed to be a cruel season for the third graders at Children’s Village Academy in tiny, coastal Kinston, N.C. Their 125-student charter school, where 85 percent of pupils are eligible for free or discounted school lunches, makes sure that all its high-risk students are in […]

• March 10, 2007 Wave Of Students To Gear Up For WASL

  -Heather Woodward, The Olympian More high school students than ever will take the Washington Assessment of Student Learning starting Tuesday, even as state lawmakers continue debate about the test’s status as a graduation requirement. At least 100,000 high school students required to pass the reading, writing and math sections to graduate under existing law will […]

• December 1, 2006 Give Students the “Write” Stuff With Online Learning Tools

  -Scott Fellenbaum, techLEARNING Consisting of 28 suburban and urban schools, the Red Clay Consolidated School District in New Castle County, Delaware is committed to incorporating technology into the classroom. The district’s schools make strong attempts to leverage computers as valuable learning and assessment tools. In fact, this open-minded approach to technology tools enabled us to […]

• November 25, 2006 Online Grading Shooting For An ‘A’

  -JIM FARRELL, Hartford Courant A sometimes reluctant writer, Robin Squirrell was nevertheless excited to compose an essay asserting that Friar Lawrence was the “Romeo and Juliet” character most to blame for the deaths of the star-crossed lovers. Robin’s enthusiasm was heightened because she knew she wouldn’t have to wait long for feedback. “It takes, like, […]

• October 28, 2006 Program Offers Leg Up On FCAT

  -Carmen Paige, Pensacola News Journal, pnj.com Santa Rosa County students are using an Internet instructional tool aimed at helping boost writing scores on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. About 10,000 students, mainly in grades six through 10, are using the latest version of MY Access!, which allows them to write an essay, type it into […]

• July 21, 2006 AI Programs Grading Student Essays

  -Bary Alyssa Johnson, PC Magazine Professors at colleges and universities across the country are giving their students an opportunity for academic advancement via a variety of Web-based essay grading programs. SAGrader and MY Access! are among a handful of automated essay scoring programs that offer writing tips and feedback for students that want to improve […]

• July 3, 2006 The Writing Challenge

  -Algie Davis, eSchoolNews Atlanta’s Therrell High School jumped from last to third place in the state’s standardized writing test district scores, thanks to dedicated educators, and a novel instructional writing tool. Three years ago, my school–Therrell High School in Atlanta, Ga.–landed at the bottom of the district’s rankings after our 11 graders scored an 82 […]