Products

Knowledge Technologies' products and services can dramatically improve both writing skills and reading comprehension as well as subject area knowledge. Using products built with the Knowledge Analysis Technologies™ (KAT) engine, individuals receive immediate, detailed evaluation and feedback.

The KAT engine, Knowledge Technologies' proprietary application of Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA), allows for richer diagnostic feedback than otherwise possible. KAT engine flexibility allows Knowledge Technologies' solutions to be inexpensively implemented and easily customized.

Knowledge Analysis Technologies™ engine - Unlike other automated writing analysis techniques, the Knowledge Analysis Technologies (KAT) engine evaluates the meaning of text by examining whole written passages. The KAT engine uses a proprietary application of the mathematical approach known as Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA). It is a unique automated assessment tool for written language that evaluates the meaning of text, not simply the grammatical correctness, spelling or other surface elements.

WriteToLearn™ - WriteToLearn is based on the Knowledge Analysis Technologies (KAT) engine and promotes both writing skills and reading comprehension. WriteToLearn allows educators to automatically evaluate and teach both writing (with the Intelligent Essay Assessor™ essay function) and reading comprehension (with the Summary Street® summarizing function) in any subject area. WriteToLearn represents the next generation in writing and reading comprehension assessment and instructional tools.

Intelligent Essay Assessor™ - Intelligent Essay Assessor (IEA) is a back-end Web-based service based on the KAT engine that automatically evaluates a student's writing skills and knowledge, providing scoring and diagnostic feedback to both the instructor and student.

Versant™ - Versant is an automated spoken language test that can be easily taken over a phone or computer by large groups of candidates. Tests are automatically scored within minutes and provide both an overall score and sub-skill scores. The Versant tests have helped corporations, government agencies, universities, and schools accurately and quickly measure spoken English, Spanish, or Arabic skills for screening and training purposes in over 100 countries around the world.

VersaReader™ - VersaReader is a complete test administration, scoring, reporting and data management system specifically designed to score students' oral reading fluency performance. It provides accurate feedback on oral reading fluency instantly, and saves teachers' valuable time from test administration and score report generation.

Summary Street® - Summary Street allows students to write online summaries of reading assignments and receive an automated assessment. Based on the KAT engine, Summary Street includes section-by-section evaluation of content as well as immediate feedback on copying from the text, spelling, redundancy, and irrelevant sentences.

Knowledge Post® - Knowledge Post is an intelligently mentored online collaborative learning and knowledge building environment based on the KAT engine and includes embedded performance assessment and diagnostics.

SuperManual® - SuperManual is a KAT-engine driven service that makes previously unwieldy documents, such as military training and maintenance manuals, easy to navigate by incorporating enhanced meaning-based and adaptive search and guided navigation.