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For Greater Efficiency in Implementing No Child Left Behind Testing, Edformation, Inc. Announces the AIMSweb Digital Pen System Powered by Mi-Forms from Mi-CoReleased on = June 16, 2005, 8:24 pm Press Release Author = Barrett Joyner / Mi-Co Industry = Education Press Release Summary = Edformation, the nation’s leading student progress monitoring company, announced today the introduction of a new digital ink data capture process for schools implementing the AIMSweb product line. Press Release Body = RTP, NC and Eden Prairie, MN.Edformation, the nation’s leading
student progress monitoring company, announced today the introduction of a new
digital ink data capture process for schools implementing the AIMSweb product line.
This digital ink technology saves time and money, while increasing the quality of AIMSweb® is a formative assessment system that teachers use to ‘inform’ the teaching
and learning process. This web-based software system provides student performance
data and reports improvement to parents, teachers, and administrators to enable
evidence-based evaluation and data-driven instruction. Edformation’s AIMSweb “Data capture and entry is fast and simple with the new Digital Pen technology for
AIMSweb. This digital scoring system provides the fastest, easiest, and most
comfortable way to capture test scores and best of all, upload them directly and
electronically into AIMSweb,” stated Gary Germann, President of Edformation, at the With this system of data capture, AIMSweb and/or DIBELS™ score sheets are provided
on ‘smart paper” and the test administrator replaces the regular writing tool with
the Digital Pen. The pen writes with a standard ink cartridge but has an optical
scanner that captures the writing in the pen’s memory. The pen is then docked into a With this process of data collection, the teacher can keep the score sheet as a hard
copy for the school’s records but the data is already in the AIMSweb system. This
process eliminates keying, typing, faxing or scanning data into the system which
greatly reduces the administrative burden on educators and increases time spent with Mi-Co develops and markets the Mi-Forms technology that powers Edformation’s data capture component with the Digital Pen. Mi-Co recently released its fifth generation of technology, built within Microsoft’s .NET framework, for use in handwriting conversion and data capture. “Mi-Co enjoys partnering with companies like Edformation for a number of reasons,
including the excellent fit of the core competencies of the two organizations,” said
Mi-CO CEO Jim Clary, “Edformation concentrates on managing, assessing and reporting The AIMSweb Digital Pen System will be available for the 2005 -2006 School year. For more information on Edformation’s AIMSweb products and Digital Pen System visit www.aimsweb.com. For information on mobile data capture, e-form systems and handwriting recognition software please contact Mi-Co at www.mi-corporation.com
About Edformation Edformation, Inc. is a privately held company that creates Standard Assessment
probes, formative assessment materials and online monitoring and reporting software
for use in K-12, Special Education, Adult Learning, Community Education, home
school, charter schools, correctional facilities and other educational settings. About Mi-Co Mi-Co, the mobile data capture company, provides digital writing software that
enables an efficient and effective process for capturing and communicating
handwritten data. Mi-Co’s enterprise Mi-Forms Software System enables flexible
e-forms design for data capture using digital ink. In addition, Mi-Forms Software
has proven capabilities for handwriting interpretation, verification, data
Web Site = http://www.mi-corporation.com Contact Details = 2 Davis Drive
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