Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 28, 2023

In the ever-evolving landscape of education, the concepts of portfolio and portfolio assessment have garnered significant attention as comprehensive tools for evaluating student growth. This post delves into the intricacies of portfolio assessment, drawing primarily on the insightful research presented in the works of Valeri-Gold et al.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The national K-12 Cybersecurity Resource Center reported 408 publicly disclosed cyber incidents in 2020, including student and staff data breaches, malware outbreaks, denial of service attacks, phishing attacks and other social engineering scams.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 4, 2024

Reading levels for 13-year-old students have been declining since 2012, with the sharpest drop between 2020 and 2023, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress’s long-term trend assessment. Interestingly, mathematics scores closely follow the same drops, the assessment report shows. “If

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Data Driven Instruction: How Student Data Guides Formative Assessments. As personalized learning becomes a more mainstream pedagogy in K–12 classrooms, teachers have started to adapt assessment processes to get a deeper look at student growth. . What Are Summative Assessments Vs. Formative Assessments. eli.zimmerman_9856.

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 4, 2021

In this episode of the EduJedi Report Podcast, you’ll hear how to bring back meaning to assessments through new skills in data and logic that work even in distance learning scenarios. The post Podcast: Becoming Human Using Assessment Data first appeared on EdNews Daily. Click Here to Listen.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Learning loss is everywhere—and so are reports detailing the setbacks. All in this Edtech Reports Recap. What differs is how those reports measure, how many are measured and what exactly they found. million assessments” from 50 states and the District of Columbia. As some schools reopen, edtech product use declines.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 6, 2024

To combat these threats, the Consortium for School Networking is seeing an increase in schools adopting practices to improve cybersecurity, according to CoSN’s “2023 State of EdTech Leadership” report. This year, 61% of respondents require two-factor authentication for district accounts, compared to 40% last year,” the report…

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American Consortium for Equity in Education

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

New reports from Texas and Florida demonstrate that students in grades 3-5 who use Core5 attain greater reading achievement gains than students from non-Core5 schools Two new studies from Texas and Florida show that students in elementary schools that use Keep Reading Elementary Schools Using Lexia Core5 Reading Achieve Higher Scores on State Assessments (..)

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Over the last two-and-a-half years, students’ math and reading scores saw a historic decline, according to the results of a Congressionally-mandated test—known as the “nation’s report card.” Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, in a briefing with reporters, called the results “appalling and unacceptable.” Nothing here is surprising.

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Twinkl International Publishing

AUGUST 6, 2024

This blog is all about the reception baseline assessment (RBA). Information for this blog has been sourced from the statutory government guidance found at the end of the revised EYFS framework 2021 and the reception baseline assessment and reporting arrangements guidance.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 25, 2023

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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Marketplace K-12

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The agency that administers the long-running National Assessment of Educational Progress is looking to bring major changes to the test through technology. The post The “Nation’s Report Card” Is Getting a Digital Upgrade. Vendors Are Being Asked to Help appeared first on Market Brief.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

It will also help you with both formative and summative assessments, and it will enter your grades into any electronic grade book directly from GradeCam. Simple Assessments of All Kinds. First, let’s look at the ways you can use GradeCam for assessments. Setting up assessments is fast and easy. Make assessment simple.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 7, 2016

Assessment strategies that show what students have REALLY learned From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Assessments should cover what is taught and address important learning goals. Thomas Guskey reflects today on what makes a good assessment. The are the keys to effective assessment?

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User Generated Education

MAY 5, 2018

Institutionalized education has given assessment a bad reputation; often leaves a sour taste in the mouths of many teachers, students, and laypeople. This is primarily due to the testing movement, the push towards using student assessment in the form of tests as a measure of student, teacher, principal, and school accountability.

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Hapara

MARCH 22, 2023

Today’s students are learning on computers, tablets and mobile-devices and using the internet for class activities, research, assessments, communication and collaboration. Use the following questions to assess the effectiveness of the web filter you currently have or are considering. Does the web filter offer robust reporting?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 23, 2024

While experts acknowledge risks such as bias and access disparities, they foresee AI-driven assessments reshaping education by tailoring tests to individual needs and promoting deeper learning. Full Story: The Hechinger Report (4/11) –Image credit Deposit Photo Copyright ©2024 askatechteacher.com – All rights reserved.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2021

Three new reports on student achievement during the pandemic all point to larger declines in math than in reading and widening gaps between the haves and have-nots. That’s because low-income students were less likely to attend in-person school, where diagnostic assessments were given, or take an online assessment at home.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

Credit: Staff/ The Hechinger Report Education journalism is chock full of stories touting some brand new idea that could fix schools. A February 2024 report about a research-and-development program inside the Department of Education makes this truth crystal clear. Almost 150 of them reported results with more than 20 still unfinished.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 29, 2017

One of these tools is the Digital Practice Assessment (DPA). Once collected and analyzed, a detailed summary report outlining areas of success, focus opportunities, and recommended next steps will guide the professional learning partnership with ICLE, supporting the development of a strategic professional learning and implementation plan.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Most educators are concerned that summative assessments cause students undue anxiety, adding to growing concerns over the state of K-12 assessments and how they’re created, delivered, and interpreted.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2024

It’s been a busy year for me filling in as co-author of the early education newsletter for Hechinger Report senior reporter Jackie Mader. One reason so many diagnoses are missed is that scores of schools continue to use IQ tests to assess children for learning disabilities. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2022

The accelerated digitization of today’s classroom impacts every aspect of instruction–from attendance to summative assessment and everything in between. As educators have shifted to the hybrid environment, they have had to make significant changes in the way they approach formative assessment. Formative Platforms.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 18, 2023

Just like periodic assessments can help teachers gauge student mastery of a particular subject, a periodic ed tech review can help teachers and administrators reflect on what works and what doesn’t. This concern is reflected in another data point from the same report: In a given month, teachers accessed an average of 148…

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

As most school systems have learned by now, assessing learning in a pandemic comes with all sorts of challenges, including but not limited to how (and where) to assess students and whether the data being gathered is even accurate. As assessment and curriculum leaders for two different districts, we’re still discovering the answers.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 6, 2022

Technology and assessments seem like natural partners—after all, the goal of assessments is to collect data on student progress. During the edLeader Panel, “ Formative and Summative Assessment: Springboards for Achievement,” the presenters discussed the lessons they learned searching for and implementing a new assessment platform.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 6, 2023

Keeping Our Schools Safe: Reporting, Assessing, and Managing Threats A Library 2.0 + LearningRevolution.com Webinar with Dr. Steve Albrecht Please consider forwarding this material to colleagues or associates in school settings. Using the USSS Safe Schools and FBI research reports. It is presented by Library 2.0 in Psychology.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Moore have organized the self-assessment tool into three sections: The context and design of your course. He shares back to the class any feedback reported by at least ten percent of those who completed the questionnaire. As we assess our teaching and invite others to do so, we also will often find a deep well of joy.

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2024

The most recent Edtech Top 40 Report notes that districts access an average of nearly 2,600 edtech tools annually, a number that has swelled in the past few years as companies offered free access to their tools during the pandemic and districts spent their relief funding. But both practices can reveal useful insights.

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eSchool News

APRIL 20, 2021

Based on the assessment data of 3.8 million students from all 50 states, Renaissance’s midyear How Kids Are Performing report provides targeted insights to help educators accelerate spring and summer learning. million students’ assessments. BLOOMINGTON, Minn.

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Twinkl International Publishing

JUNE 20, 2024

Join Sam as he takes a magnifying glass to Cambridge University Press' "The Futures of Assessment" report.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 24, 2017

In my school, every teacher assesses writing. That’s not just for essays or reports but slideshows, blog posts, comments in forums, and more. Gather relevant information, assess the credibility and accuracy of each source, and integrate the information while avoiding plagiarism. That’s a separate skill.

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Linways Technologies

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In the ever-evolving landscape of higher education, the traditional reliance on exams as the primary mode of assessment is being reevaluated. In this article, we will delve into the world of alternative assessment methods tailored for higher education. It also hones communication skills and the ability to provide constructive feedback.

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Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2019

Pretty well, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)—also known as the Nation’s Report Card. And it’s good news: Students tested in 2018 showed improvements over those in 2014, the year the first NAEP Technology and Engineering Literacy (TEL) assessment was administered. students actually faring?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

All in this Edtech Reports Recap. The new report—adding EducationSuperHighway as a partner—spends its 33 pages focused on best practices to address this gap in a series of who-what-how steps: assessing needs, procuring solutions and accessing funds. The report is based on existing research plus 18 interviews with stakeholders.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2022

The studies that were excluded did not fit the review’s criteria of assessing child learning and development outcomes.) Last year, a report by the LEGO Foundation that looked at 26 studies of play from 18 countries found play is so powerful it can reduce inequality and close achievement gaps between children ages 3 to 6.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

This new assessment tool allows educators to easily assess, track, and remediate student performance over the course of the school year. “Get Set for School is a central component of that literacy expertise and is already being used by thousands of schools across the country for kindergarten-readiness. Assessment Matters.

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