SkillsTutor Online Instruction and Tutoring Program Now Has Double The Accountability Reports - Serving Thousands of Administrators and Teachers And Over 765,000 Students Nationwide

Online instruction and tutoring program has 18 Accountability Reports to help Administrators, Teachers, Students and Parents make more informed decisions on a child's core academic skills knowledge.

(PRWEB) March 12, 2004 --- Achievement Technologies, Inc., (ATI), educational publisher of the popular instruction and tutoring program, SkillsTutor, has added 9 new accountability reports to its online assignment tracking and management system.

Now in its fourth year, the program serves over 765,000 students with lessons and activities to practice and improve basic skills. The reports, 18 in total, help administrators and teachers make informed decisions to drive school-wide improvement, individualize instruction and enhance parent communications.

Jack Dolan, ATI President, said, "We have had an overwhelmingly positive response to these reports from administrators and teachers. Aggregate school data and individual student progress reports are critical for managing academic achievement. We talk with our customers regularly and document their requests. Through our Effectiveness Studies we have proof that SkillsTutor works in all types of education programs and generates the necessary data to ultimately achieve accountability goals."

The SkillsTutor data reporting system includes 6 reports for administrators and 12 reports for teachers. These accountability reports cover school-wide progress, class summaries, student activity and product usage. The School Profile Report, for example, summarizes overall student activities and gives a snapshot of student participation organized by subject and average scores on pre-tests, lessons and post-tests.

Tammy Fisher, Behavior Specialist for Morse High School in Bath, Maine says, "SkillsTutor data gives me the assurance that at anytime I can see how my class or individual students are doing in any subject or assignment. The individual student reports have been effective in meetings with the student, staff, or parents to show where the students strengths and weaknesses lie. The programs ability to track dates, times, lessons, and scores helps me to hold students accountable. What's great is that the reports are at no extra cost to my school district. Knowing that the lessons are already aligned with the Maine Learning Results gives the faculty and administrators that much more confidence in utilizing this program. The program also acts as a homework tutoring resource that parents really like. Weve also made great use of SkillsTutor with students who are not able to be at school for a variety of reasons."

Web-based delivery keeps the SkillsTutor program up-to-date for thousands of educators. At the time of this release, the company delivered over 1 million lessons and activities for just the month of February 2004. Product updates, including the 9 new accountability reports, are free for subscribers. The detailed reports for the administrator include: Teacher Roster, Student Roster, Student Activity, School Profile, Product Usage and Time of Day. For the teacher, class-specific reports include: Class Roster, Assignment Library, Class Activity, Class Profile, Student Profile, Class Averages, Student Detail and Parent Letter.

Four additional reports; Mastery Profile, Assignment Averages, Student Assignment Detail and the Gradebook Report focus on specific assignment-giving details and help teachers pre-make assignments and prepare action plans for individual students.

Visit sample lessons at www.AchievementTech.com to preview these accountability reports.

SkillsTutor is a supplementary instruction and tutoring program with over 1000 lessons and tutorials to help K-12 and adult learners master the basic skills. The program covers skills commonly found on standardized tests in Reading, Writing, Mathematics, Language, Science, Algebra, Information Skills and Workforce Readiness. Learners can access the program every hour of the day or night to refresh or practice core skills. SkillsTutor provides diagnostic and prescriptive assessments, pre- and post-tests and a management system that monitors student progress. It is used in a variety of Title I, Special Education, before, during and after-school programs, summer school, intervention and community learning centers. A Spanish voice-track is available.

Educators can access 30 basic sample lessons at www.AchievementTech.com or request a 30-day evaluation trial of SkillsTutor by calling 1-888-391-3245.

Achievement Technologies supports educators, administrators and businesses with CD-ROM and online instructional programs to help children and adults master essential skills as defined by state and national exams. The company is also known for its award-winning SkillsBank and CornerStone programs and for the Employability & Work Maturity Skills, its workforce education program.

Sample Accountability Reports and photos are available.

Acrobat Reader 5.0 is required to view reports.