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HiSET (High School Equivalency Test) [1] [2] is an alternative to a U.S. high school diploma and the GED test. The test was designed based on the OCTAE College and Career Readiness Standards for Adult Education. [3] It is governed by ETS and is provided in cooperation with relevant authority in 26 states and 5 territories in the United States. [4]
In mathematical psychology and education theory, a knowledge space is a combinatorial structure used to formulate mathematical models describing the progression of a human learner. [1] Knowledge spaces were introduced in 1985 by Jean-Paul Doignon and Jean-Claude Falmagne , [ 2 ] and remain in extensive use in the education theory.
Mastery learning is an educational philosophy first proposed by Bloom in 1968 [8] based on the premise that students must achieve a level of mastery (e.g., 90% on a knowledge test) in prerequisite knowledge before moving forward to learn subsequent information on a topic. [9]
The Princeton Review is an education services company providing tutoring, test preparation and admission resources for students. It was founded in 1981, [1] and since that time has worked with over 400 million students.
Online tutoring is the process of tutoring in an online, virtual, or networked, environment, in which teachers and learners participate from separate physical locations. [1] Aside from space, participants can also be separated by time. [2] Online tutoring is practiced using many different approaches for distinct sets of users.
A group of students preparing for a test. Test preparation (abbreviated test prep) or exam preparation is an educational course, tutoring service, educational material, or a learning tool designed to increase students' performance on standardized tests.
Revolution Prep, based in Santa Monica, California, began in 2002 after founders Ramit Varma and Jake Neuberg met at UCLA's Anderson School of Business.After years of teaching for Kaplan and The Princeton Review, Neuberg and Varma started a company with the goal of improving traditional educational tools and creating new and innovative solutions to academic problems.
The domain model (also known as the cognitive model or expert knowledge model) is built on a theory of learning, such as the ACT-R theory which tries to take into account all the possible steps required to solve a problem. More specifically, this model "contains the concepts, rules, and problem-solving strategies of the domain to be learned.