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What’s the state of K-12 assessment?

eSchool News

With post-pandemic learning loss a continued focus, educators and administrators are relying on both formative and summative K-12 assessment data to direct classroom instruction. Only 62 percent of educators feel proficient in assessment literacy and 51 percent have concerns over the negative impact of assessments on instructional time.

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On the Leading Edge: Montana’s Approach to Assessment Innovation

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Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast Assessing student knowledge does not need to happen just at the end of the year—a practice that delivers data too late to enhance teaching and learning. Instead, assessing student progress throughout the year can substantially grow academic success. The state took an assessment stand.

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Teaching Using News Articles: Helpful Tips and Resources for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

These include the abilities to critically assess the credibility of new stories using various vetting criteria, to spot fake news and false information, to identify reliable sources, and to read and interpret news using a multi-perspective approach. Provide students with headlines and ask them to write their own story version.

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Update on Grading Practices

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here’s an eye-opening article on three grading practices that should be overhauled: Teacher: Reconsider these traditional grading practices. In this article, Tamony asserts that teachers should reconsider averaging scores over time, allowing in elements other than content understanding and reporting “opaque scores.”

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Artificial Intelligence in Education: Anecdotal Evidence

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Good or bad, only time will tell but some early reports say there are some real positives about using AI-powered program to boost literacy. Here’s an article from Hechinger Report , a national nonprofit newsroom that reports only on education, that’s pretty interesting: Can an AI tutor teach your child to read?

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Doing the same thing over and over again…

Dangerously Irrelevant

Hechinger Report just published an article on how having teachers study student data doesn’t actually result in better student learning outcomes. We implement benchmarking assessments and professional learning communities (PLCs). We’re not closing gaps with other countries on international assessments. And for what?

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Math Scores Drop Again

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We don’t seem to know how to fix the dropping math scores (and reading but that’s for another article). If you’d like to understand this trend more, check out Education Week ‘s article: Young Adolescents’ Scores Trended to Historic Lows on National Tests. We can’t even blame it on COVID!