A. Stanford EPGY Math Program Overview

The Stanford EPGY Math Program was developed and is managed by the educational researchers at Stanford University. This allows students to benefit from world-class research and instruction. The Stanford EPGY Math Program is standards-based, interactive, and personalized to optimize student learning. Multimedia presentations capture the nature of classroom instruction while preserving a level of rigor appropriate to the subject matter and standards requirements. The brief introductory lessons with audio are followed by learning activities. Students’ work is immediately evaluated and recorded by the management and reporting system. Students have full control over the introductory lessons and may review them as often as necessary. The software is able to diagnose and address gaps in students’ preparation. Advanced mastery models allow students who need more assistance to receive it while allowing those who quickly grasp concepts to advance in an accelerated mode. A review mode provides additional work in areas of weakness and provides activities designed to maintain mastery.

The Stanford EPGY Math Program presents rigorous content through thousands of learning activities. Content is organized by mathematical topics thus allowing for easy coordination and integration of tutorial activities with general classroom instruction. Basic course elements include audio lectures, synchronized graphical displays, interactive problem solving, on-line quizzes and exercises, tutorials, and detailed records of student learning. The math curriculum includes multi-media introductory lessons to new concepts. Learning and assessment models assure that students are given the appropriate material for their placement and that learning time is efficient and effective. Detailed progress reports are available at any time to the classroom teachers and after-school instructors.

With the Stanford EPGY Math Program’s content, the rate of learning for each student can be determined. By using advanced mathematical modeling, the rate of learning data can be used to form the basis for predicting student achievement. Predicting individual student achievement is a powerful tool for managing the amount of time required by all students to succeed at their own pace. The content is appropriate for all ability levels of students. The courseware is designed to accelerate the achievement of students who have not met grade level content expectations and to rapidly advance the progress of students who meet and exceed the expected outcomes.

B. Stanford EPGY English Language Arts and Writing Program Overview

The Stanford EPGY Language Arts and Writing Program is research based and provides appropriate review and reinforcement learning activities for elementary, middle, and low performing high school students. The NetPrep SES program will serve students in grades 2-8. The content addresses grammatical concepts and skills that Michigan’s state standards expect a student to master, including the development of students’ understanding of grammar, usage, agreement, and sentence construction. Sets of interactions and exercises have been developed to provide the necessary instruction and practice with grammatical concepts and writing language conventions. An innovative sentence-writing environment evaluates student writing for grammatical correctness offering corrective suggestions where necessary. This program provides students with the ability to improve their skills in the basic building blocks of English, including grammar and sentence construction.