Digital Promise

APRIL 29, 2019

That means we shouldn’t just use edtech to replace worksheets, run “drill and kill” exercises, or crunch assessment performance numbers. Educators and district leaders can use data to make informed decisions. According to Census Bureau data from 2016, nearly 82 percent of all households in the U.S.

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Accessibility Technology E-rate Data 335

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In addition, research contributors such as Dr. Alessandra Sala, the President for Women In AI and Director of AI and Data Science at Shutterstock, are clear about how much potential generative AI has in shaping education in the future. Remove grading for non-end-of-year assessment work.

Guidelines 137

Guidelines Learning Industry Assessment 137

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Time Saved According to Reed, there’s more time to dig into student performance data and provide targeted instruction and less time spent in remediation or time-consuming RTI meetings and preparations. Use Data Strategically Using real-time performance data is a powerful tool.

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Data Professional Learning Elementary Accessibility 115

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

In this latest installment, we turn our focus back to a topic I last discussed in 2011: the characteristics of 21st-century teachers. This could involve using differentiated instruction, incorporating multicultural education, or employing a range of assessment methods. 2011, Nurmi et al., Adaptive teachers, as Madda et al.

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Study Outcomes Elementary Data 121

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

A randomized control trial that began in 2011 produced a giant boost in reading achievement for first graders. Reading Recovery disputes the long-term study results, pointing out that three-fourths of the study participants had departed so data was collected for only 25 percent of them.

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Report Education Study Comparison 138

eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2023

This certification was awarded by Digital Promise , a non-profit established by the US Congress in 2011 to develop research, practice, and technologies to drive education equity, in partnership with the EdTech Equity Project.

Accessibility 82

Accessibility Learning EdTech Company 82

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

When we dug into the data, we noticed that a sizable percentage of kids were just missing the benchmark—they were one, two, three points below,” says Hope Langston, Northfield’s Director of Assessment Services. The study found that students in 1960 and 2011 read at similar rates in second grade. The main hurdle?

Survey 120

Survey Common Core Study Assessment 120

Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2022

Just having a genuinely consequential system of teacher performance assessment is really unusual in American public education” Stanford's Thomas Dee Dallas and D.C. Data from before the pandemic indicates the district was able to retain more than 95 percent of its most proficient teachers. What Makes a Good Teacher?

Policies 159

Policies Survey System Assessment 159

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Renaissance Learning , a provider of K-12 software and assessments, including the widely used STAR tests, has agreed to acquire Nearpod for $650 million. Dating back to 1986, Renaissance Learning has established its name in the education market largely through its STAR assessments and Accelerated Reader and Accelerated Math programs.

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IXL Learning Learning Company Assessment 183

eSchool News

JANUARY 12, 2024

Valid Does my assessment evaluate the specific learning objective I am attempting to assess? As a final check for reliability, GenAI can be used for triangulating grading – ask it to evaluate student data against a rubric. Free of Bias What in my learning activity is inadvertently disadvantageous to students?

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UDL Education Digital Divide Equity of Access 104

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Founded in 2011, the New York-based company has built a hugely popular training platform that has helped millions of students learn to code over the last decade. Through regular exercises, assessments and certificates, the Business platform allows students to learn new skills and update employers with their coding progress.

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Chegg Company EdTech Education 160

Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

Teaching quality has been defined as “instruction that enables a wide range of students to learn” ( Darling-Hammond, 2012 ), and it is the strongest school-related factor that can improve student learning and achievement ( Hanushek, 2011 ; Nye, Konstantopoulos, and Hedges, 2004 ; Rivkin, Hanushek, and Kain, 2005 ).

Education 120

Education Professional Learning Study Case Study 120

eSpark

JULY 1, 2021

These elements are: differentiation, adaptivity, student engagement, direct instruction, practice, formative assessment with immediate feedback and student explanation of learning. Though the students are continually assessed throughout the program to adjust to their skills, this initial reading sets them on a path tailored to their needs.

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Learning E-rate Elementary Outcomes 52

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The Hiring Initiation Page has also been expanded with options to add critical employment related data such as offer accepted date, start date and Staff ID which then translates into onboarding forms and packets. Alerts and Express Actions Updates were added to support users in gaining efficiency in common tasks.

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Software Education Data Report 52

Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2022

I have to submit data from two recent tests, fill out two data reflection forms, start progress reports and complete the SEL survey about each of my 23 kindergarteners. Later, it was data reflections on every assessment I gave in class, regardless of the size, scope or whether the whole class had aced it or not.

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Survey Meeting Training Data 152

Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

This change remained in appropriations language from FY 2007 through FY 2011. million from the regular 2009 appropriation reflects the significant amount of funds available under the Recovery Act , which provided $650 million for Educational Technology State Grants, that will be available for use through the 2010-2011 school year.

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Policies Technology Program Evaluation Education 150

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Staker (2011) defined this approach as “any time a student learns at least in part at a supervised brick-and-mortar location away from home and at least in part through online delivery with some element of student control over time, place, path, and/or pace” (p.

Blended Learning 115

Blended Learning Learning Outcomes Course 115

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

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. 2004-2011: Washington Leans In. 2011-2020: From Early Adopters To Mainstream Adoption. The infrastructure just wasn’t ready.

Kaplan 160

Kaplan Technology Education EdTech 160

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2019

Bencivenga, who will be coaching entrepreneurs on acquisitions at EdSurge Immersion NYC in September, founded DataCation (later named CaseNEX DataCation) in 2007, and made his first acquisition in 2011, buying the assessment business DataDriven Classroom. CaseNEX DataCation bought Pals, a reading assessment platform, in 2012.

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Technology Education Company Pearson 126

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Teachers assess and readjust all year long, whether it’s tweaking homework routines, changing seating arrangements or mixing up small group rotations. Because only 46 percent of teachers feel like the public respects them as professionals — a 31 percent decrease from 2011. Bring on the volunteers!

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Meeting EdTech Strategy Professional Learning 106

Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Ask any educator who teaches five classes of 30 students each per day; there’s a lot of homework to assess. Plagiarism-detection software can address the most pressing needs of classroom educators faced with assessing students’ written work. The Challenge: When identifying plagiarism, teachers need to be confident in their assessment.

Software 158

Software Assessment Analysis Tools 158

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

The latest research comes from the Reboot Foundation, which released a study in June 2019 that shows a negative connection between a nation’s performance on international assessments and 15-year-olds’ self-reported use of technology in school. student data. In the United States, the results were more complicated.

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Tablets Analysis Report Study 112

Edsurge

JULY 28, 2021

In 2011, Pittsburgh-based Duolingo was founded by Luis von Ahn and Severin Hacker. Duolingo largely uses A/B testing to try to maximize engagement and improve its learning experience, using data from the platform's learning exercises to develop its AI models and drive both engagement and efficacy.

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EdTech Chegg Mobility Company 162

The Web20Classroom

AUGUST 15, 2012

Here are my entries: 2009 , 2010 , 2011 ). These questions are adapted from the Principals Technology Leadership Assessment from Castle. Data is important. How, as the technology leader do you provide access to systems that allow teachers to critically analyze data? And since I''ve had my blog I have participated.

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Edcamps Assessment Meeting Twitter 197

Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2020

Since then, Weld North Education has acquired Glynlyon , which offers online K-12 courses for intervention and credit recovery, and Assessment Technology Inc. Core curriculum was not LearnZillion’s initial focus when the company started in 2011. LearnZillion’s assets will become part of Edgenuity. LearnZillion had raised $32.5

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Kaplan Company Education Libraries 100

Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2020

“I was blown away by how ahead of the curve the Juneau district was” in the late 1980s, recalls Linda Roberts , who visited there while doing research at the time for the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment. Cator was “innovative and pragmatic, and so good at bringing out the best in the teachers and students,” says Roberts.

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Policies Social Media Technology EdTech 157

Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2018

My appointment came at a time when 77 percent of McComb’s kindergarteners had not met the required performance on the state’s kindergarten readiness assessment. They wanted student-centered teaching and learning environments where success would be determined by growth rather than state assessment proficiency or seat time.

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System How To Assessment Meeting 112

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

When I started graduate-level work with machine learning tools at UC Berkeley in 2011, few people outside academia were discussing artificial intelligence. How reliable is the data that the AI is trained with? Artificial intelligence only works when the system is properly trained to make decisions based on an existing data set.

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Company EdTech Data Training 109

Edsurge

MAY 1, 2017

Technology was also providing a surplus of real-time data we still weren’t sure how to best use. Some students constructed model airplanes and tested their flights while observing how changing one variable, such as weight, could change the data. . She achieved National Board Certification in 2011. .

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How To Differentiated Instruction Common Core Groups 130

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2017

American fourth-graders, on average, had worse reading skills than they did five years earlier, in 2011, with scores slipping seven points on a 1,000-point scale. Both fourth- and eighth-grade students posted declines on the math section of the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

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System Education Common Core Study 111

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2014

.” Envision enacts this philosophy through a “Know-Do-Reflect” process that uses projects, portfolios and presentations to integrate assessment with learning. Education these days is falling into a data gap. For better or for worse, politicians and the public want to see hard data.

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Outcomes Assessment Case Study Data 73

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

For the same reasons that many low-income students struggled to learn remotely during the pandemic, it was also hard, if not impossible, for students to take an online assessment of their progress. The 13-year-olds who did so poorly in 2019 would have been in grades K-2 during the worst of the cuts, from 2011-14. In 2016, U.S.

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Elementary Analysis Libraries Report 144

eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2017

In spite of these challenging demographics, the data supports a disruptive school model that is working. In its first four years of existence, VGV has posted the highest gains of any of the state’s high schools in the assessed content areas of ELA, math, and science and consistently outperformed its sending urban school districts.

Blended Learning 73

Blended Learning E-rate Learning Course 73

Reading By Example

JUNE 27, 2016

We used three strategies to assess growth from fall to spring: Instructional walk trends, student engagement surveys, and digital student portfolios. Each data point related to one major componenent of literacy: Instructional walks: Speaking and listening within daily instruction, including questioning and student discussion.

Elementary 40

Elementary Classroom Survey Assessment 40

Reading By Example

JUNE 27, 2016

We used three strategies to assess growth from fall to spring: Instructional walk trends, student engagement surveys, and digital student portfolios. Each data point related to one major componenent of literacy: Instructional walks: Speaking and listening within daily instruction, including questioning and student discussion.

Elementary 40

Elementary Classroom Survey Assessment 40

ViewSonic Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Text/data entry via floating on-screen keyboard. Student feedback and assessment with optional audience response accessories. In 2011, large-format interactive flat-panel displays (IFPDs) displays became a new alternative. Video conferencing connectivity for virtual field trips, international sister classrooms and more.

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Technology Classroom EdTech Training 256

A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 7, 2011

While attending the 2011 NASSP Conference in San Francisco, CA I listened to a keynote by Dr. Bill Daggett. This tool helps educators and schools adjust curriculum, instruction, and assessment to create high standards and increase student achievement. His message centered on the need for increasing rigor and relevancy in schools.

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Analysis Course Strategy Conference 208