Saving Socrates

MARCH 19, 2014

This is an older post, but I recently updated the bottom to include reflections on gradpoint; the blended learning digital content provider Magen David Yeshivah High School chose this past year. I hope to rectify this in the near future, but since 2008, reading acquisition has become something on the forefront of my mind.

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Technology Blended Learning Elementary Assessment 51

edWeb.net

MAY 11, 2020

From an instructional and assessment perspective, Olivia recommends considering the relative importance of teaching critical skills, developing mastery, and providing grades. She is an educational technology leader with a passion for student learning using innovative digital tools, blended learning models, and data systems.

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Education Secondary Policies Elementary 54

MindShift

JULY 9, 2015

Competency-based learning, often called mastery-learning, at its core involves five elements: Students advance when they master the content and skills, not because they squeaked by with a C or a D grade. What role do habits of learning play, and how can they be developed in students?

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Competency Based Learning Learning System Assessment 28

Saving Socrates

MAY 8, 2013

In January of 2008, I began working on NJ teacher certification. This has enabled me to create a real blended learning environment. Find out how they learn best, talk to their parents about their educational history, have them fill out surveys. I also see their scores on pre-assessments, if administered.

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Groups Study Course Blended Learning 40

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

He ran Kaplan as its CEO from 1994 to 2008, during which he oversaw 67 acquisitions and more than doubled the company’s revenue—to nearly $2 billion —by the time he left. He also teased at a forthcoming deal, involving a company that focuses on “assessments and psychometrics.”

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Company Kaplan Flipped Classroom Blended Learning 80

The Hechinger Report

JULY 27, 2016

“The bottom line for now is we need to broaden what counts in education, so I’m in favor of moving in this direction [performance assessments] even if we lose a little bit of precision to get there.” It is easier to say what performance assessment is not – a bubble test or short-answer exam – than to describe what it is.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

Related: Rhode Island’s lively experiment in blended learning. During the interview, Bramante sat beside her laptop, awaiting an upcoming “discussion-based assessment” with one of her students. Summing up what that’s done for her kids, she said, “They’ve learned to enjoy learning.”.

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Education Course Laptops Blended Learning 0

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

” “Two assessment companies – Educational Testing Service and Data Recognition Corp. The framework demands that schools be assessed “according to their performance on student satisfaction, retention and graduate employment, as well as through institutional submissions.” school departments employed 8.4

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Education Coursera Elsevier MOOC 52

Doug Levin

MARCH 5, 2017

Tagged on: March 3, 2017 Blended Learning for Quality Higher Education: Selected Case Studies on Implementation from Asia-Pacific | UNESCO Bangkok → A new report presents a framework and self-assessment tool developed to drive, sustain, and scale up blended learning. Should it be revisited?

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EdTech Coursera Data Case Study 170

Hack Education

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Testing, Testing… Via Education Week : “The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium , a major designer of common-core tests for states, is looking for a new fiscal agent after the University of California, Los Angeles, said it will no longer do that work.” ” Via NPR : “ Educators Went To Jail For Cheating.

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Education Company Pearson E-rate 40