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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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eLearning Brothers Expands Family with Two Corporate Training Acquisitions

Edsurge

Each chapter concludes with an assessment to prove employee understanding. Founded in 2009 and based in American Fork, Utah, the company has amassed 1,500-plus games, quizzes and templates to sell to corporate clients in search of more compelling digital learning materials for employees. This is a big leap for us,” says Scivally. “We

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Top Hat Raises $55 Million to Take on Big Textbook Publishers

Edsurge

Mike Silagadze isn’t shy about his desire to take market share from the largest college textbook publishers through his classroom software company Top Hat. He believes his company’s brand of digital textbooks beats anything Pearson, McGraw-Hill and their ilk can provide. The company has raised $90 million to date.

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

Edsurge

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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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. Analytic Measures (reading assessment). Early Learning Labs (language assessment). Each year hundreds of companies apply; only a dozen or so win support.

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What is Mastery Learning and How Do You Implement It Effectively?

The CoolCatTeacher

In 2002, Jon received the Presidential Award for Excellence for Math and Science Teaching; and in 2010, he was a Semi-Finalist for Colorado Teacher of the Year. And so that's the big idea of mastery learning, is that if a student fails a test, right, so summative assessment, then they take it again until they reach mastery.

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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.