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PRINCETON, N.J. (PRWEB) DECEMBER 11, 2017

Mindprint Learning, is thrilled to announce it has won the Gold Award in Learning Assessment from Reimagine Education, the prestigious international competition rewarding transformational initiatives aimed at enhancing student learning outcomes. In addition to winning the Learning Assessment category, Mindprint was one of the 10 overall finalists in the education industry to emerge from a total of 1,041 nominations, finishing 2nd among EdTech companies. The award signifies the company’s leadership and innovation in using technology and non-academic data to redefine the way learners are assessed so educators are able to differentiate academic instruction, personalize learning and deliver curriculum through the most optimal learning pathways.

“This is wonderful recognition for our team and a reflection of the tremendous interest we are seeing in the marketplace for objective and actionable data beyond traditional achievement data that measures how students learn best in addition to what they know,” said Mindprint CEO Nancy Weinstein. “In addition to helping educators understand and address current academic and behavioral struggles through learner profiles, personalized learning plans and evidence-based strategies, Mindprint’s unparalleled ability to accurately assess skills such as executive functions, problem solving, and complex reasoning enables teachers to anticipate academic struggles before they occur. This naturally leads to improvements in student engagement, motivation and overall learning outcomes.”

Earlier last week, Mindprint took the stage to present to an audience of the top edtech investors and industry leaders at SIIA Innovation Showcase. Mindprint was one seven finalists at the Business Education Forum annual event in Washington, D.C.

Mindprint’s Innovation
Mindprint provides objective, non-academic data for learner profiles and personalized learning plans. Through valid, digital assessment Mindprint can efficiently and accurately identify the root cause of learning struggles and areas of giftedness for all students beginning in the second grade. Our learner profiles integrate non-academic data with academic achievement data to enable teachers to provide intervention for struggling learners, enrichment for gifted learners, and personalized instruction by academic topic, study skills and test prep for every student. We are currently being used across the country by public schools, private schools, tutors and parents to improve learning outcomes and support social-emotional needs.

Because cognitive skills drive academic and personal skills (e.g., growth mindset, self-regulation, etc.) and explain much of the variability in student achievement, the predictive analytics of how a student learns can be combined with traditional academic assessments to enable teachers to efficiently differentiate instruction using any curriculum or improve upon the machine learning embedded in any adaptive learning platform. Incorporating reliable, objective non-academic data into Learning Analytics has enormous potential to optimize learning pathways and accelerate learning success. In addition, career success in many fields is highly correlated with specific cognitive skills. The potential to identify and cultivate students’ strengths earlier can have a direct positive impact on lifetime career success.

About Mindprint Learning
Mindprint Learning is the leading digital assessment provider of objective, non-academic data for learner profiles and personalized learning plans. Through valid assessment, academic skill alignment and evidence-based strategies, the platform accurately identifies learning needs, predicts areas of struggle by academic subject and provides teachers with tools and strategies to differentiate instruction. Mindprint’s personalized learning plans empower teachers, tutors and other content providers to optimize learning pathways and improve student outcomes for students in elementary school through college. Solutions start at $10 per student. For additional information, visit: http://www.mindprintlearning.com

PRINCETON, N.J. (PRWEB) June 30, 2018

Earlier this month, Mindprint Learning was named the best learning capacity-building solution of 2018 as part of the annual SIIA CODiE Awards. CODiEAward recipients are the companies producing the most innovative Business and Education technology products across the country, and around the world.

“This product gathers important information and makes it available for use by all stakeholders for student implementation and immediate use,” commented one of Mindprint’s SIIA-appointed judges. “I have not seen another product like this with an affordable price point and simplified and streamlined implementation. It is a product I would personally recommend for use with students and by educators This would have made my life in the classroom much easier and more productive.”

By providing objective data on how students learn best, Mindprint enables educators, assessment providers and educational publishers to efficiently interpret achievement data so they can identify the most effective way to improve achievement outcomes for all learners. Mindprint’s proprietary, evidence-based analytics platform equips educators with unparalleled insight into student performance, research-proven strategies to help teachers differentiate instruction, and recommendations for tools and content that will increase engagement and best meet the needs of struggling learners.

“This is wonderful recognition for our team and a reflection of the tremendous interest we are seeing in the marketplace for objective and actionable data beyond traditional achievement data. It is critical to measure how students learn best in addition to what they know,” said Mindprint CEO Nancy Weinstein. “With acknowledgement from the industry’s only peer-reviewed awards, we look forward to working more closely with strategic partners to integrate Mindprint data and insights to strengthen our partners’ current offerings, accelerate learning and improve outcomes for every student.”

The SIIA CODiE Awards are the premier awards for the software and information industries and have been recognizing product excellence for more than 30 years. Mindprint Learning and Renaissance
Learning shared the top award for the Best Learning Capacity-building Solution. This follows Mindprint’s recent Gold Award for the top Learning Assessment solution from Reimagine Education, the international competition rewarding transformational initiatives aimed at enhancing student learning outcomes.

An SIIA CODiE Award win is a prestigious honor as each award winner was first reviewed by expert judges including educators and administrators, whose evaluations determined the finalists. SIIA members then vote on the finalist products, and the scores from both rounds are tabulated to select the winners.

About Mindprint Learning
Mindprint Learning is the leading digital assessment provider of objective, non-academic data for learner profiles and personalized learning plans. Through valid assessment, academic skill alignment and evidence-based strategies, the platform accurately identifies learning needs, predicts areas of struggle by academic subject and provides teachers with tools and strategies to differentiate instruction. Mindprint’s personalized learning plans empower teachers, tutors and other content providers to optimize learning pathways and improve student outcomes for students in elementary school through college. For additional information, visit: http://www.mindprintlearning.com

About the CODiE Awards
The SIIA CODiE Awards is the only peer-reviewed program to showcase business and education technology’s finest products and services. Since 1986, thousands of products, services and solutions have been recognized for achieving excellence. For more information, visit siia.net/CODiE.

PRINCETON, NJ (PRWEB) MAY 11, 2016

Mindprint Learning, a leading provider of personalized learning solutions, is pleased to announce that it has been honored with a 2016 Academics’ Choice Award, reserved only for the best mind-building media and toys. The independent Academics’ Choice Awards program and its seal of excellence are recognized worldwide by consumers and educational institutions as a mark of genuinely effective learning tools that stimulate the mind, and provide potential for the student to fully develop higher order thinking skills.

“It’s gratifying to see Mindprint getting the recognition we believe it deserves,” said Nancy Weinstein, Chief Executive Officer of Mindprint Learning. “Validation from the thought-leaders at Academics’ Choice means we’re making a difference and improving learning outcomes.”

Parents, tutors and schools use Mindprint to solve the problem of objectively identifying how students learn with a valid, online cognitive assessment. Weinstein continued, “While educators are comfortable providing differentiated instruction to students when they know why a student is struggling, they often cannot identify the underlying learning strengths and needs through observation. Standardized tests of academic achievement do not measure these skills. Once a Mindprint identifies how each child learns, a learning profile maps the relevant learning strategies and educational resources appropriate for each child.”

One of the Academics’ Choice Awards Reviewers of Mindprint commented, “It is personalized to the individual based on the assessment. As a parent & teacher, I think Mindprint would be helpful to understanding my own children and their strengths. It would be amazing to have this for each of my classroom students at the beginning of the year in addition to their IEP, ELLP, ALP information.”

Mindprint recently released a free version of its personalized learning toolbox, enabling parents and educators to search thousands of learning strategies and teacher-reviewed resources by academic subject, cognitive skill, and interest in providing differentiated instruction at the click of a button. “We were delighted to make this tool freely available,” concluded Weinstein. “In the fall we will introduce a universal cognitive screener designed and priced for general education that has the potential to reshape personalized learning for all students. That’s what we’re about at Mindprint.”

For more information please visit http://www.mindprintlearning.com.

About Mindprint Learning
Mindprint Learning’s new platform provides a significant enhancement to existing personalized learning solutions for the general education classroom. The Mindprint assessment analyzes each child’s strengths and weaknesses on the underlying skills required to process and remember new information. This analysis drives links to specific instruction and supplementary resources for each learner. Cognitive assessments have been the most reliable way to understand how a child learns, as opposed to what they know, for over a century. We enable educators to reap the benefits of the latest research on early intervention, metacognition, and neuroscience to help all students learn more successfully.

Princeton, NJ (PRWEB) June 02, 2015

Mindprint Learning, LLC, a Princeton-based educational technology start-up focused on personalized learning, announced the launch of its new cognitive evaluation and learning platform for children ages 8 to 21. The Mindprint assessment, the first ever valid online cognitive test that can be administered anywhere, enables families and schools to reap the benefits of the latest advances in neuroscience research to help all children learn more effectively.

Cognitive assessments like Mindprint measure the abilities and processes required for learning, whereas standardized school tests measure what has been learned. Experts consider cognitive assessments the only reliable and objective way to identify a child’s unique combination of learning strengths and needs, the crucial insight needed to effectively understand and address learning struggles and areas of giftedness.

Historically cognitive assessments were too time consuming, inconvenient and expensive to be administered to most children. Mindprint solves this problem with a one hour assessment that can be taken anywhere, whether at school or home, at a fraction of the typical cost of alternatives.

“A Mindprint is a blueprint of how your brain works. And like a fingerprint, each one is different,” saidNancy Weinstein, Mindprint’s Founder and CEO. “Everyone can learn, but not everyone can learn the same way. Schools historically focused on a single way to teach, and you either got it or you didn’t. Now schools understand the need for personalized learning, but they don’t have the objective tools to tell which approach will work best for each student. Our solution pinpoints how a student learns best, and we offer the specific learning strategies that children need to be confident and successful in school and in life.”

Along with a detailed Mindprint learning profile, children who take the assessment receive a list of research-based strategies written by our team of psychologists and learning specialists. Recommendations include how to prepare for tests and how to read more efficiently, all customized to that child’s unique needs. For those that want extra practice with school work, we recommend apps, workbooks and websites. Those recommendations, like our learning strategies, are specific to the child. In total, Mindprint’s team of teachers and specialists has created or reviewed over 1,500 learning strategies, educational toys, games and tools that help children tackle academic challenges more effectively.

“The most successful children are not always the ones with the strongest skills. But they are the ones who understand how to use their strengths. And they aren’t afraid to ask for help either,” Weinstein added. “We help parents understand why a bright child may not be living up to perceived potential. Others want advice on how to get through homework without a daily struggle. All children have strengths and weaknesses. No two minds think alike. And no one excels at everything. Being successful is all about knowing who you are as a learner and using that information wisely.”

Mindprint’s assessment was developed by researchers at The University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine. It has been validated and normed in over 10,000 children,published in the most respected academic peer-reviewed journals and used by major research institutions around the world. Mindprint assesses ten cognitive skills across four domains, including speed, executive functions, complex reasoning and memory. The cost for the assessment, a comprehensive written evaluation of the child’s strength and needs, and a one year subscription to customized learning solutions is $199, far less than the $5,000 price tag of many psycho-educational evaluations.

“We weren’t sure how schools would feel about Mindprint when we started, but teachers love the objective insight Mindprint provides. It makes it much easier for them to understand individual learners and differentiate instruction. The same with tutoring chains and adaptive curriculum providers. No matter how much educational content and services are available today, what good is it unless you can map each student to the right resource? Educators know there are multiple ways to teach any given topic. We take the guesswork out of which approach to use for a struggling learner. Once teachers understand exactly what a student needs, they can focus on helping the student master the material. We know that using our solution will help every type of learner,” concluded Weinstein. “This is a much smarter way to invest in a child’s future success.”

For more information about Mindprint Learning, or to get started with a Mindprint assessment, visit https://mindprintlearning.com.