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America’s reading problem: Scores were dropping even before the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

An analysis of test scores in California and South Carolina found that students had lost almost a third of a year in reading. A national analysis of the test scores of 5.5 After the 2008 recession, schools across the country cut spending by $600 per student, on average, and laid off thousands of teachers. In 2016, U.S.

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4 Steps for Designing an Online Assessment for Flipped Classroom

Fractus Learning

Are you thinking about designing an online assessment for a Flipped classroom? First, consider whether the tool you are thinking about is the right tool for what you want to assess. Second, does this online assessment align with the rest of the course curriculum. 2002) and used by other academics (e.g.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

And as Essa told Inside Higher Ed , the problems with the data and analysis also raised questions about education technology research more broadly: “Maybe one of the conclusions that could be derived from this is that we really don’t have a strong community to test and validate these claims? Aaron Swartz, 2008. They want the bundle.

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