I am happy to endorse Acceleration Station and to share with you how our district is currently using this product to achieve maximum results on state testing.

We have been an exemplary district with several exemplary rated campuses for several years. With the new Texas state assessment, TAKS, we knew that we needed to take data dissemination to an even higher level. It was at that time that we purchased Acceleration Station. We are using the technology provided by Acceleration Station to accomplish several tasks including:

1. All benchmark tests are built in Acceleration Station (approx. 52 benchmark tests per year spread across K-11 and disciplines) and scored through Acceleration Station.
2. Disaggregation of assessment scores- (this accomplished by the reporting system in Acceleration Station.) Each student's profile is reported by the technology (objectives the student is weak on), and a prescriptive plan is developed for the student by Acceleration Station.
3. Help identify those instructors who need additional professional development (The technology allows us to view "all teachers" classes and performance of their students on benchmark tests. This allows us to determine which instructors are in need of additional help in teaching the desired objectives.)

I strongly encourage that any district or state desiring a strong assessment tool consider Acceleration Station. I have been in education for thirty years and this is the most precise instrument I have used to assess student strength and weakness.

Judy Koch, Assistant Superintendent, Curriculum & Instruction

... Acceleration Station provides us with extensive contents covering almost all of our subjects in grades 1-12 at a much more affordable price than its competitors. It also gives us the flexibility to create our own test and exercise items, edit existing items if we want something changed and the ability to track every student. We can now create reports based on gender, ethnicity, government programs, exceptionality and several other categories. We can even create individual report that tell us the precise objective in which student need remediation.

The final reason we decided to use Acceleration Station for our assessments that would allow our students to practice taking tests similar to our state's end of course and end of grade assessment in addition to having the option of taking the assessments in our computer laboratory.

...We are pleased with the support we have gotten from the vendor's stuff. They have been more than willing to listen to any suggestions we have on adding features and making improvements to the system and that in itself puts Wordware well ahead of its competitors.

Kelby Cody, Technology Facilitator/Data Analyst

.... we have found that the software to be reliable, user-friendly, and wide-ranging. We have been particularly pleased with the support that we received from company's programming team. They have made a number of program enhancements that have customized the application for our use.

Jerry Holt, Assistant Superintendent

The purpose of this letter is to provide highest possible recomendation for Acceleration Station...

James H. Mason, Director of Instruction