A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 8, 2018

What and how we assess carries little to no weight in the eyes of our students if they don’t understand and appreciate the value of the learning experience. 2008) conducted a study where 36 students were interviewed about aspects of the teaching and learning environment that motivated or demotivated their learning. Kember et al.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 13, 2013

Of course not, but the change that was initiated is much more aligned with the learning needs of our students. This not only reflects grading as punishment, but also creates a hole that students cannot dig out of (Gusskey, 2000, Reeves, 2004, Reeves, 2008, O’Conner and Wormeli, 2011). The new philosophy is now an expectation for all.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

Video, of course, enables other innovations. MOOCs are great ideas, but assessment and feedback loops and certification are among the many issues holding them back. Comparing an unsupported MOOC from 2008 to an in-person college experience isn’t apples to apples. An example? As does–or should–YouTube.

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Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2019

That inspired him to start Instructure in 2008, best known for its Canvas LMS. (He This week, he announced the launch of Derivita , a Salt Lake City-based startup self-funded by Daley that offers math homework and assessment software. He left in 2013, a couple years before the company went public.)

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

While being an entrepreneur may not be everyone’s destiny, the skills required to succeed as an entrepreneur are useful for almost any student, regardless of what career or course of study they choose. Entrepreneurial education was quite the buzzword in 2008/09, as educators grappled with how to prepare young people for economic meltdowns.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

In 2008, I read Clayton Christensen’s Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns. Teachers are diligently meeting state standards while covering course content and using technology to address collaboration, communication, critical thinking, and creativity. The environment. The pedagogy.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

Then the 2008 recession slashed school art budgets even more. Of course, it wasn’t a blind test. The only academic benefit from art at all was in one aspect of writing, as measured by Texas state assessments. Arts classes were further squeezed out after a 2001 federal law required schools to test children annually.

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Omega Notes

OCTOBER 15, 2019

But learning new ways of teaching and preparing new materials in response can be overwhelming, given a faculty member’s overall responsibilities (Loch & Reushle, 2008; Price & Oliver, 2007). Use this information to assess your selection and application of course material toward learning goals. By Andrew Lang.

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Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Some have research, grant writing, and publication responsibilities in addition to teaching their courses. Some teach five or six courses per semester. Here’s what we’re doing this fall: We have analyzed data from Spring 2018 to empirically determine which learning outcomes students struggled with the most in five Waymaker courses.

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Neo LMS

JULY 6, 2017

Unless you already do, of course. Koehler, who co-authored a paper in 2006 and another one in 2008 , referring to the above core idea with these exact words. The challenge for teachers is to identify the right technology and assess its impact over the content and pedagogy. Seriously, you can’t. Sooner, rather than later.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2019

In 2008, I read Clayton Christensen’s Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns. Teachers are diligently meeting state standards while covering course content and using technology to address collaboration, communication, critical thinking, and creativity. The environment. The pedagogy.

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Assessment Meeting Resources Course 96

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

More than two decades ago, when I was hired at Stevens Institute of Technology, as dean of web-based distance learning—a quaint title for what is now known as online learning—few tools were available to help faculty migrate their on-campus courses online. Most authoring software also integrates assessment tools, testing learning outcomes.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The decline has accelerated, and results from the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) have pushed the state into the “learn-from-our-mistakes” category. A 2008 panel of math experts appointed by the U.S. Department of Education called Algebra I the gateway course to all higher math study.

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Common Core Academic Standards Comparison Report 122

Hack Education

APRIL 30, 2020

Teachers, of course, know how to shift this physical setting — move the chairs around, for example. That is, we are less likely to use ed-tech to rethink assignments or assessments than we are to use ed-tech more closely scrutinize student behavior. TurnItIn was acquired by the media conglomerate Advance Publications last year for $1.75

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2019

when it comes to the LMS software that serves as the virtual classroom, online gradebook and other functions used in just about every college course these days. The company was founded in 2008 and went public in 2015 (at $18 a share), and plans to continue to operate with its same management team after the acquisition.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2020

To further complicate matters, statisticians have long warned of the pending “ 2025 cliff ,” which represents the abrupt reduction of potential first-time, full-time freshmen projected to arrive in 2025 to 2026 due to the drop in birth rates between the years 2008 and 2011. Increase the flexibility of instruction, learning and assessment.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2018

A Starter Kit For Instructional Designers When EdSurge columnist Amy Ahearn graduated from college in 2008, she had never heard of instructional design—let alone anticipate that she would soon have a career in it. Prices for these courses range from $29 to $99, and financial aid is available. Here’s the 2017 countdown, from #10 to #1.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

Or of course the pride. on a 2021 strategy to assess and fill the needs of homeless families. “The pandemic created a whole new level of families who were maybe always paycheck to paycheck and, all of a sudden, they weren’t able to make ends meet and were not familiar with what to do.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

I am sorry that we're all kicking off fall term online again — well, online is better than dead, of course. This is already happening, of course, with or without the pandemic. Is it the vast corpus of data that the company has amassed — decades of essays and theses and Wikipedia entries that it uses to assess student work?

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Robotics Software Company ProctorU 83

EdNews Daily

MARCH 22, 2017

Of course, nutrition has an impact on K-12 students as well, from their academic performance to their behavior in the classroom. In 2008, a Journal of School Health study discovered that fifth-graders eating fast food scored worse on standardized literary assessments. Impact of Nutrition on Students.

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Guidelines Study Report Company 199

Edsurge

JULY 13, 2017

In 2008, Heidi Williams, author of the book “No Fear Coding,” began asking herself some retrospective questions about her role as a teacher at an International Baccalaureate School in Racine, Wisc. We have been beat-up because we are not just teachers anymore,” explains Williams. It is like having a housing secretary who lived in a house.

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Classroom Education Blended Learning Policies 113

The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 31, 2018

My family and I were the victims of a fairly-elaborate Ponzi scheme back in 2008. And parents are bringing their kids in — their freshman and sophomore years, and signing them up for summer school so they can free up a slot their senior year to take the course. Brian: Somewhat of a challenge, if you want to put it that way.

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Classroom Company Examples Twitter 185

100mentors

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Their oral and written responses may not always reflect their level of understanding, but whatever they deliver should be assessed as it is. For example, when discussing the solution to a problem in math or science, a Japanese teacher may suggest a diverse course of action due to their learner-centered problem-solving approach.

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Learning Strategy Assessment Course 78

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Lebanon Valley College recruited transfer students this year by promising that their general education courses would count toward a degree — something that doesn’t usually happen. And CollegeSource is steadily adding universities and colleges to its platform that allows them to more quickly assess transfer credit.

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Policies Report Course Strategy 145

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Both fourth- and eighth-grade students posted declines on the math section of the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). And another international exam, the 2015 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) showed back-to-back deterioration in math performance among American 15-year-olds in 2012 and 2015.

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System Education Common Core Study 111

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

The district aligned curriculum, instruction and assessment to meet learning standards recently adopted by the state and modeled on the Common Core state standards. percent in 2008-09 to 84.9 Related: Can schools create gifted students? This is contributing to steady gains in our graduation rate, which improved from 67.2

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2019

In 2008, iParadigms was acquired by private equity firm Warburg Pincus. I have no illusions that the many thousands of instructors who have heavy course loads and struggle to adapt to rapid changes in technology will change their pedagogy quickly enough to end their dependence on tools like Turnitin any time soon,” he said.

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Company Industry Software EdTech 166

100mentors

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Their oral and written responses may not always reflect their level of understanding, but whatever they deliver should be assessed as it is. For example, when discussing the solution of a problem in math or science, a Japanese teacher may suggest a diverse course of action due to their student-centered problem-solving approach.

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Learning Strategy Assessment Course 60

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2022

“We know that kids love it and so do parents and teachers,” said Emily Morton, a researcher at NWEA, a nonprofit assessment company, who has studied four-day school weeks around the country. But over the course of a typical 36-week school year, a four-day week means 36 fewer days of school.

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Study Analysis Policies Report 117

User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Assessment as an Ongoing Act of Learning: A Heutagogical Approach: Melanie Booth. is a type of essentialist, behaviorist education based on the three Rs – receiving by listening to the teacher; responding by taking notes, studying text, and doing worksheets; and regurgitating by taking the same assessments as all other students in the cohort.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2018

Knewton has raised $25 million in a new funding round—the eighth since it launched in 2008. But last November, Knewton announced that it would directly offer digital curricula—and set itself on course to compete with publishers. But some things seem to stay the same—such as its ability to win new investors and capital.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 18, 2020

He also believes the arts are especially important in a district like Mount Vernon because many of the students turned out to be “twice gifted,” despite having received standardized assessment scores that did not reflect their proficiencies. Jay McTighe brings a wealth of experience developed during a rich and varied career in education.

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Outcomes Differentiated Instruction Assessment Professional Learning 63

Fractus Learning

APRIL 1, 2015

In 2008 Professor John Hattie undertook the largest ever meta-analysis on the effect of different factors on educational outcomes. Educators see assessment as feedback about their impact. The results of this study formed the basis for his hugely popular book Visible Learning and the educator focused Visible Learning for Teachers.

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Learning Analysis Assessment Outcomes 40

Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Ferreira, who founded the company in 2008, will remain on the company’s board of directors. In 2012 the company expanded to deliver online courseware to a few universities—in particular, a math readiness course with Arizona State University. statement on his departure. “I But after nearly a decade, I need a break.

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IT Bill

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Making course content accessible may at first seem a daunting task when faced with a lengthy list of rules or standards. A recent article in the EDUCAUSE Review describes how University of Memphis integrated Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles into their online course development process. WC3 Recommendation (2008).

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UDL Outcomes Guidelines Learning 28

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

using the board game "Diplomacy" in sections of their remedial writing courses could possibly combat a lack of student motivation and critical thinking skills. A lot of our STEM majors are unable to pass this required course, so we thought that we could intervene, accelerate them and get them into the GIS program.”.

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Game-Based Learning STEM Secondary Study 60

Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2017

So today I think CBE is very strong, with over 600 higher-ed institutions having competency-based courses or programs. We run seminars specifically about competency-based education, our approach to it, how you design for it—everything from the program design to the instruction, assessment and evaluation. Yeah, they do. Nine years.

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