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Fair Grades, Dropping Grades, Grading Versus Knowledge

The CoolCatTeacher

With almost 9,000 downloads and counting, this show is the most popular episode on Every Classroom Matters in 2016 so far. His research focuses on on professional development and teacher change, program evaluation, assessment of student learning, grading and reporting, instructional effectiveness, and educational reform.

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What Makes a Good Assessment?

The CoolCatTeacher

His research focuses on on professional development and teacher change, program evaluation, assessment of student learning, grading and reporting, instructional effectiveness, and educational reform. He recorded a previous show, Fair Grades, Dropping Grades, Grading Versus Knowledge , that is one of our most popular of 2016.

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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). FY 2016 $0 (President Obama’s request: $200,000,000). Federal Program Evaluations and Reports: Program not yet implemented.

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Documenting and Reflecting on Learning

User Generated Education

Here are links to photos I took for my two gifted classes and posted to a shared folder on Google Photos during the 2016-17 school year: [link]. The final presentations gave me, as the educator, a type of program evaluation where I got the opportunity to learn the most significant classroom projects from my learners’ perspectives.

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#AskExcelinEd: How are states advancing next generation learning?

ExcelinEd

State Progress Toward Next Generation Learning includes five key findings about the national landscape of next generation learning programs. are or will soon be administering a next generation learning program. Since 2016, at least 15 states have created new next generation learning programs. Key Findings.

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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. One promising pattern shows how investments in CTE programs at the high school level are resulting in higher wages for graduates.

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The dark side of education research: widespread bias

The Hechinger Report

.’ If you’re in the work of program evaluation, you can see why these things might happen,” said Wolf. In 2016, one of Wolf’s co-authors, Robert Slavin, wrote about the positive results that researchers get when they devise their own measures to prove that their inventions work.

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