What others say about Study Island

Great Standards Based Website/Program

Today’s website/program of the day is studyisland.com. Study Island is a great program that is offered for grades K-12, in most states, that offers students the opportunity to review subject matter thoughout the year. This program is set up in a multiple choice format that resembles standardized tests. Each topic that is offered correlates to the standards that have been adopted by your state.

The program allows you to set up individual student accounts that can be accessed by them anywhere there is Internet access. From an administrative side, each student can be associated with a teacher, and the teachers can see exactly what a student has been doing and how they are performing on every question.

The students enjoy the program because there are games built-in that open up when the teacher allows them. These games require that the students answer the question correctly before they can play. If you are concerned about students just guessing, the program has a guessing detector built in that will stop the student and tell them to slow down.

Each topic is directly linked to a standard, and each topic offers a printable worksheet for those who don’t have computer time for the students to use. I have seen a few schools that have implemented this system, and I have yet to hear a negative comment about it.

Posted on October 2, 2008 in Products, Websites by John Phillips

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John Phillips is a STAR member of the Discovery Educator Network