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The International Alliance For Learning (IAL) Reports a Landmark Study of Students' 
Outstanding Academic Achievement Gains Using Media, Creativity, and Accelerated 
Learning


(AP Wire Service - Colorado Springs, CO  Mar. 8) - The International Alliance For Learning (IAL), 
www.ialearn.org, announces a landmark study of students grades 4-8, who obtained 
two to four grade levels of academic achievement gain in a single school year, on the 
nationally standardized test, The Iowa Test of Basic Skills.  These gains were +1 1/2 to  
+2 1/2 years beyond what the teachers normally received.  Academic achievement was 
improved in reading, math, language arts, social studies, spelling, and science applying 
Accelerated Learning methodology.  The robust gains maintained two years following  
the study.

Low achieving students performed +1 to +2 1/2 years above grade level 
norm expectations even into the subsequent two years following the study. 

A classroom of average students surpassed gifted-high achieving students' ITBS  
achievement test scores two years later. The gifted students had received
incomplete BTA-Accelerated Learning application.  The fourteen classroom, 
two school study was conducted in Iowa by researcher and Intervention 
Consultant, Jan Kuyper-Erland, Mem-ExSpan, Inc., Lawrence, Kansas (www.memspan.com) 


This research was published in a series of three articles, including a 100-page 
monograph (Fall 1999), by IAL's journal, The Journal of Accelerated Learning and 
Teaching (JALT). The study applied a multi-media cognitive skills and Accelerated 
Learning curriculum to students of all learning levels. This research can be accessed on 
JALT web site at Rutger's University: Http://tec.camden.rutgers.edu/JALT

The IAL organization focuses on the teaching of Brain-Based Learning, Intelligences, 
Creativity, Music, Theatre, and the Arts.  Teaching methodology includes creating a 
positive emotional state through  visual imagery, imagination, metaphors, relaxation, 
choral speaking, rhythm, color, and dramatization.

In 1975, Dr. Donald Schuster and Charles Gritton formed the IAL organization, then 
called The Society for Accelerated Learning and Teaching (SALT), which was later 
changed in 1994 to The International Alliance For Learning.  For twenty-five years the 
organization based its methodology on the research of Bulgarian scientist Dr. Georgi 
Lozanov who successfully used techniques of suggestion, relaxation, and music to the 
learning process.  Other theories have been gradually adopted to include the roles of 
Multiple Intelligences, Howard Gardner (1998) and Guilford's Structure of Intellect 
(1968).   For further information on how to empower teachers and students through 
Accelerated Learning practice can be accessed on the IAL website www.ialearn.org, and
www.memspan.com 


Contact: Dr, Nancy Omaha Boy, President, IAL 
Rutgers University's Teaching Excellence Center at Camden   
email: Omaha@crab.rutgers.edu  
phone: 856.225.6356, fax: 856.225.6687

 



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