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The national Title 1 program was implemented to improve the educational outcomes of students that come from financially disadvantaged situations.  Because students on these programs are from low-income environments and often struggle just to survive, they face difficulties specific to their needs, such as a lack of educational resources, low motivation, and often limited or no parenting role-modeling, supervision, and encouragement.  Consequently, their school life is often characterized by absences, a poor work ethic and failure, or at best limited success.

The successful implementation of a Title 1 program should consist of the following:

1. An understanding and compassionate teacher who can create an interesting and encouraging environment;
2. A program to accurately determine all the learning gaps in the student’s school career;
3. A tailor-made intervention program (including instructional opportunities) to specifically address the learning gaps diagnosed by the screening assessment;
4. Comprehensive data management of the student’s work to monitor his/her progress and to provide valuable feedback to parents/care keepers, and school and government agencies responsible for funding and implementing the Title 1 program.

An RTI program delivered by Eduss provides these services and some more.  One of the great features of the Eduss program is that (after the initial face-to-face tutoring sessions) the student is provided with his/her own notebook computer loaded with the Eduss software.  Many of these students would otherwise not have access to a computer, at least their own, so the provision of a laptop as their own is a great motivator towards their ongoing engagement with the program.

The Eduss software is unique in that it can run a screening assessment to identify all the learning gaps of the student across all grade levels, then create a learning plan that is specifically designed to address the learning gaps identified in the assessment.  As the student moves through the assessment and the subsequent intervention tutorial, the software tracks all the student’s progress and generates real-time printable reports that more than supply all the information needed to all the different reporting stakeholders mentioned earlier.

For more information on the advantages of the Eduss system over other systems click on this link – Essential Keys to Effective Intervention.

Mathematics

Screening Students
The assessment module within the math program provides an effective and accurate screening mechanism.  Assessments can be set for different parameters: global groupings of students so one tutor can easily monitor several students from different grade levels, or any other sub-grouping the tutor may see as appropriate to gather the necessary data.  In addition, the math topics to be assessed can be global by grade level,  global by topic level (assess students’ ability in all operations of fractions), or by individually selected sub-topics (say, adding fractions with different denominators).

In short, the assessment engine provides Title 1 tutors with flexibility in the number and groupings of the students to be assessed, and also in the array of topics or sub-topics to be assessed.

As students move through their assessments, their work is instantly scored and recorded.  Not only does this save the tutor’s time in scoring and collating student data, it also provides tutors with a comprehensive array of data that can be used to judge student performance.  The Eduss printable reports provide criterion-referenced reports and also a normative comparison with peer students.  This is all done instantaneously without time-consuming paper work. The data-driven Eduss program facilitates simple, streamlined, and customizable assignment of students to their RTI intervention learning programs.

Monitoring Title 1 Student Progress & Reporting
Once a student has completed an assessment using the Eduss assessment engine, the program automatically compiles a tutorial based on the individual student’s results in the assessment.  This tutorial is remedial in its nature.  It provides student feedback after each question is completed.  In addition, the tutorial module provides help in two ways.  Firstly, the student has access to a virtually unlimited number of worked examples of the type of exercise s/he may be having difficulty with.  Secondly, inbuilt targeted narrated teaching slides provide step-by-step instruction on how to master the concept or exercise type the student is working on.

The Eduss progress reports that are automatically generated as students gradually move through the remediation tutorial provide comparative “before and after” data, tabulating original assessment scores side-by-side with tutorial scores.  All elements of the report are date and time stamped.  In fact, the Eduss assessment/tutorial engine and its simultaneously generated reports are specifically designed to satisfy Title 1 reporting requirements and make Title 1 a very effective, simple, and workable educational solution.

Another report or tool included in the Eduss program lets the tutor time-manage and monitor each student’s progress through his/her intervention tutorial.  This can be done because the program generates an estimated time it would take the student to complete his/her entire intervention tutorial.  On the basis of this, tutors can adjust the time spent per week by the student on the intervention program or adjust the due date for completion.  This not only allows tutors to time-manage each student’s intervention program so they fit into class or school events, but the graphical progress report allows the tutor to quickly monitor student progress to see if they are on-target, falling behind, or ahead of their intervention schedule.

English (grammar, punctuation, supplemental comprehension)

Screening Students
The assessment module within the English program provides an effective screening mechanism to identify learning gaps.  Assessments can be set for different parameters: global groupings of students so one tutor can easily monitor several students from different grade levels, or any other sub-grouping the tutor may see as appropriate to gather the necessary data.  In addition, the English topics to be assessed can be global by grade level,  or by individually selected topics (say, nouns, and adjectives).

In short, the assessment engine provides Title 1 tutors with flexibility in the number and groupings of the students to be assessed, and also in the array of topics to be assessed.

As students move through their assessments, their work is instantly scored and recorded.  Not only does this save the tutor’s time in scoring and collating student data, it also provides tutors with a comprehensive array of data that can be used to judge student performance.  The Eduss printable reports provide criterion-referenced reports and also a normative comparison with peer students.  This is all done instantaneously without time-consuming paper work. The data-driven Eduss program facilitates simple, streamlined, and customizable assignment of students to their RTI intervention learning programs.

Monitoring Title 1 Student Progress & Reporting
Once a student has completed an assessment using the Eduss assessment engine, the program automatically compiles a tutorial based on the student’s results in the assessment.  This tutorial is remedial in its nature.  It provides student feedback after each question is completed.  In addition, the tutorial module provides help by way of inbuilt narrated teaching slides which give step-by-step instruction on how to master the concept or exercise type the student is working on.

The Eduss progress reports that are automatically generated as students gradually move through the intervnetion tutorial provide comparative “before and after” data, tabulating original assessment scores side-by-side with tutorial scores.  All elements of the report are date and time stamped.  In fact, the Eduss assessment/tutorial engine and its simultaneously generated reports are specifically designed to satisfy Title 1 reporting requirements and make Title 1 an effective and workable educational solution.

Phonics & pre-reading

Screening Students
The assessment module within the phonics-to-reading program provides an effective screening mechanism for the essentials of phonics, phonological awareness, and mapping sounds and combined sounds to letter/s.  Assessments can be set to test all letter/sound knowledge and awareness, or targeted for sub-groups such as the short vowels or final consonant digraphs, or syllable formation, syllabic stress patterns, etc.

In short, the assessment engine provides the teachers with flexibility in the number and groupings
of the students to be assessed, and also in the array of topics to be assessed.

As students move through their assessments, their work is instantly scored, and recorded.  Not only does this save teacher-time in scoring and collating student data, it also provides teachers with a comprehensive array of data that can be used to judge student performance.  This is all done instantaneously without time-consuming paper work. The data-driven Eduss program facilitates simple, streamlined, and customizable assignment of students to their RTI intervention learning programs.

Monitoring Title 1 Student Progress & Reporting
Once a student has completed an assessment using the Eduss assessment engine, the program can be used to provide targeted instruction and formative assessment to remediate the student through learning gaps identified in the assessment.

The Eduss program automatically tracks the student’s progress and provides the tutor with the reporting data that is an integral component of the RTI methodology.