SchoolView Application a Finalist For Adobe MAX Education Award
Colorado Department of Education Teams Up With Universal Mind To Create SchoolView, Engages Colorado Educators and Parents
DENVER, Sept. 28 /PRNewswire/ — Universal Mind announced today that it is named a finalist for the Adobe MAX education award for its work with the Colorado Department of Education (CDE) and Center for Assessment on SchoolView™ and the Colorado Growth Model, a data visualization application that provides measures of student growth and achievement for all schools and students across the state. Based on Adobe Flex and AIR, SchoolView is capable of easily showing educators, administrators and parents historical education performance data and providing a revealing and highly engaging, new way to look and converse about student and school outcomes.
The annual Adobe MAX Awards recognize the best uses of Adobe software for creating engaging experiences. SchoolView is one of four finalists in the Education category. Public voting begins Monday, September 28 at http://max.adobe.com/awards/finalists. Voting is open until Tuesday, October 6 and winners will be announced live at the event, the same day.
“We are very proud to work with the CDE and the Center for Assessment on SchoolView providing parents and educators an actionable look into schools’ performance,” said Brett Cortese, President of Universal Mind. “With this tool, users can view student performance information by location and time, and make more informed decisions about their children’s education.”
Utilizing the Colorado Growth Model, SchoolView provides Colorado Student Assessment Program performance data from all of Colorado’s 178 districts and more than 1,800 schools. Users are able to filter the data by school, location, content area, or type of school enabling powerful comparisons that foster important conversations about student performance and its relation to school quality. The SchoolView program’s browser-based and AIR applications were built using Adobe Flex and data is served to the browser-based application via BlazeDS. Other Adobe technology used within SchoolView includes PDF, for individual student reports, and CS4 for the application skin.
For more information, please visit http://www.schoolview.org.
About Universal Mind, Inc.
Universal Mind’s team of software strategists, designers, and developers helps clients achieve business objectives by creating custom connected software applications for the Web, desktop, kiosks, and mobile devices. Universal Mind excels at solving difficult business challenges for its customers by fusing experience-driven design, advanced technology, and industry insight. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Westfield, MA. For more information visit http://www.universalmind.com.
About the Colorado Department of Education (CDE)
The mission of the Colorado Department of Education is to provide all Colorado children with equal access to quality, thorough, uniform, well-rounded educational opportunities in a safe, civil environment. CDE is the administrative arm of the Colorado State Board of Education. CDE serves Colorado’s 178 local school districts, providing them with leadership, consultation and administrative services on a statewide and regional basis.
About the Center for Assessment
The Center for Assessment, short for the National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment, Inc. (NCIEA), was founded to address the changes currently underway in assessment and accountability in the United States. The Center’s mission is to contribute to improved student achievement through enhanced practices in educational assessment and accountability. We carry out our mission by working with states and other educational agencies to design and implement effective assessment and accountability policies and programs. For more information, visit http://www.nciea.org.
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