Interactive Education and Assessment

What is Softway?

Softway is a West Australian business dedicated to the development of high quality educational software. The most popular product is currently Active Math 2001, available on CD for home users, or professionally as a client/server application for schools and tutorial organizations.

Founded on academic research carried out at the University of Western Australia Softway specializes in the development of interactive Tests that Teach.

Softway is currently based in Quairading WA, and is therefore very well placed to service rural schools in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia.

Quairading is home to a number of contemporary Australian artists. One notable West Australian artist is Richard Swinhoe, who specializes in pastel drawings of spectacular Australian landscapes.

What is Active Math 2001

Active Math 2001 is a set of Interactive Tests that Teach the basic operations of mathematics. Written for Windows 2000, Active Math can be used at home for math practice, or at school as an efficient assessment tool. Applying current Microsoft Data Access technology, Active Math can store data on your local hard drive or on a central file server.

Why is Active Math 2001 good for students?

	Active Math 2001 makes learning fun;
	reinforces understanding with positive feedback;
	maintains interest by matching item difficulty with student ability;
	and maintains confidence by offering a lesson after any student error.

Why is Active Math 2001 good for teachers?

	Active Math 2001 makes marking easy;
	records the names of the students who take the tests;
	records their age on the day they take the test;
	records every question in every test;
	records which items are answered correctly and which are answered incorrectly;
	allocates student outcome levels according to the difficulty and content of the items answered correctly.

Why is Active Math 2001 good for parents?

	Active Math 2001 is a systematic learning and self-assessment tool;
	provides students with the basic skills they need to master the broader math curriculum
	provides constant feedback on student performance and outcome levels.

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