Promethean, in collaboration with the Chicago International Charter School (CICS), has announced the launch of the Preparing for Standardized Tests program, which is designed to improve students' performance on the reading and math sections of the PSAT, ACT, and SAT exams.

Using the Preparing for Standardized Tests program, students can practice how to answer questions from standardized test using the guided practice lessons and the learning tools of Promethean's ActivClassroom. Every week, they complete two essential skills lessons and answer the corresponding practice questions that are presented in a formal testing format.

Preparing for Standardized Tests extends CICS' ACT Practice Tests, an earlier series of test preparation course developed by the school. In creating the new program, CICS licensed its intellectual property from their tests and consulted on the development of the core content of the lessons. In keeping with the mission of CICS to prepare all students with a college preparatory education, this new interactive whiteboard program fully utilizes the interactive power of ActivInspire software and the ActivExpression learner response systems from Promethean.

Lessons can be purchased and downloaded individually or as a complete program at Promethean Planet, an online store where educators can find a wide variety of digital content, including ActivInspire, the software needed to run this program on interactive whiteboards. A free lesson and preview of Preparing for Standardized Tests can be found online at www.prometheanplanet.com/server.php?show=ConGenericProduct.349.

Source: Promethean: www.prometheanworld.com