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Invest in the Workforce of the Future with Data-Driven Collaboration

Digital Promise

In September 2016, Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo announced an ambitious goal to successfully support 70 percent of working-aged individuals in the state in earning at least an associate degree by 2025. Link Data across Systems to Improve Program Decisions. Gina Raimondo Governor of Rhode Island.

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What Makes a Good Assessment?

The CoolCatTeacher

He also shares the four kinds of data that are most valuable to teachers in year-end assessment. You’ll rethink how you look at assessments and data after listening to this thought-provoking show. What are the four kinds of data that are valuable to teachers in year-end assessment? The are the keys to effective assessment?

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

Federal Program Evaluations and Program-Related Reports: The First-Year Implementation of the Technology Literacy Challenge Fund in Five States (American Institutes for Research, 2000). ” How would the program operate? FY 2016 $0 (President Obama’s request: $200,000,000). FY 2001: $450,000,000.

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#AskExcelinEd: How are states advancing next generation learning?

ExcelinEd

Excel in Ed and Foresight Law + Policy’s new report, State Progress Toward Next Generation Learning: A National Landscape , closely examines state innovation and pilot programs supporting next generation learning, which includes personalized learning and mastery-based education. Key Findings. 33 states and Washington, D.C.,

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Ed tech companies promise results, but their claims are often based on shoddy research

The Hechinger Report

And Edgenuity agreed that it shouldn’t have calculated student growth the way it did, and said it would edit its case study, though at the time of publication the misleading data still topped its list of “success stories.”. No other digital intervention program compares.”. An independent evaluator disagrees.

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On the Relationship Between Adopting OER and Improving Student Outcomes

Iterating Toward Openness

As I eventually wrote in Open educational resources: Undertheorized research and untapped potential : Many of the articles reviewed in Hilton (2016), including some articles on which I was an author, are woefully undertheorized. According to data in the most widely cited survey , 26.5%

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A Unified Approach for Digital Integration

edWeb.net

DET, working with all things data, develops processes for evaluating digital content, measures efficacy of implementations, and informs decision-making, training, and evaluation. According to Bridget Hildreth, Performance and Evaluation Analyst at Vancouver Public Schools, that last part is very important.