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

The Hechinger Report

Examples from The Hechinger Report’s collection of misleading research claims touted by ed tech companies. All three of these companies try to hook prospective users with claims on their websites about their products’ effectiveness. Some companies are trying to gain a foothold in a crowded market. Video: Sarah Butrymowicz.

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Buying or Building Research-Backed Edtech? The Government Can Help

Edsurge

The only other education technology company present, out of 45 total recipients, is Agile Mind , which develops online math and science curriculum and assessments. 2016 SBIR Awardees. Analytic Measures (reading assessment). Early Learning Labs (language assessment). 3C Institute (SEL for autistic students).

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

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In 2002, our team at Microsoft Education created an LMS for a world where every teacher and student had a tablet computer. But visions of a world where every teacher and every student had an internet-connected device, and every student would get personalized assessments for learning, were still just that—visions.

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From Testing to Transformational Change with Pam Moran

The CoolCatTeacher

Screencastify is an essential tool for making flipped lessons, student videos and creative formative assessments. The state’s just reduced that to a requirement of one science, one social studies, one math, and a reading and writing assessment. They flipped to one-to-one sometime around 2002. So, that’s kind of cool.

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The dark side of education research: widespread bias

The Hechinger Report

Department of Education launched in 2002 to help educators decide which educational products to buy. The first is that a company is unlikely to publish unfavorable results. Developers often create their own yardsticks for measuring student success, devising their own assessments to go along with their programs.

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Impero Software Announces Philip Walters as its New Chairman

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These are important tasks and I look forward to working with the company as we move forward with this work both in the UK, and the U.S.” It partnered with advocacy organizations to produce white papers at the 2017 and 2016 Digital Citizenship Summits. Founded in 2002, Impero software is now accessed by over 1.5

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Can online learning level the AP playing field for rural kids?

The Hechinger Report

based education company that is part of a nonprofit consortium in the state. That’s a sharp increase from the 2002-03 school year, when, according to the U.S. In 2017, several companies opened so-called “online high schools” that turned out to be no more than diploma mills. million students took about 4.5 In 2014-15, some 2.7