ETS (Educational Testing Service) announced that it has acquired the assets of Assessment Training Institute (ATI) based in the US. ATI specializes in helping educators improve student achievement by integrating classroom assessment with day-to-day instruction. ATI's products will broaden ETS's educational solutions, including periodic benchmark testing to validate and adjust instruction, said John Oswald, Senior Vice President of Elementary and Secondary Education at ETS.
The new software makes words talk
美国推出最新学习软件 英文课文成“有声读物”
MERIT Software, a US-based publisher of educational software, announces the addition of a voice component, the Merit Text Talker (www.meritsoftware.com/text_talker/), to most of its English language improvement programmes. With the Merit Text Talker, all of the passages, questions, answers and tips students view on the screen can be spoken aloud. This is a new innovation that shortens the time required to grasp key English language concepts. Users may also install their own voice into the Merit Text Talker.
