Math Scores Drop Again
Ask a Tech Teacher
DECEMBER 17, 2021
If you’d like to understand this trend more, check out Education Week ‘s article: Young Adolescents’ Scores Trended to Historic Lows on National Tests. And That’s Before COVID Hit.
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Ask a Tech Teacher
DECEMBER 17, 2021
If you’d like to understand this trend more, check out Education Week ‘s article: Young Adolescents’ Scores Trended to Historic Lows on National Tests. And That’s Before COVID Hit.
The Hechinger Report
JULY 25, 2022
An international study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development found that students who had more books at home reported that they enjoyed reading more. Teens who read more paper books scored higher on reading assessments. Credit: Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report. There’s a lot to like about digital books.
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Edsurge
DECEMBER 12, 2018
Launched in 2012 with a three-year, $10.2 million grant from the Gates Foundation and MacArthur Foundation, GlassLab aimed to prove that educational games could be just as fun as their mainstream titles, and serve as reliable formative assessment tools. The first word in GlassLab’s name stands for games, learning and assessment).
Edsurge
MAY 16, 2017
The program—short for “no grades, no grades”—is hallmarked by the schools shifting to a more competency-based assessment structure and removal of grade levels. that of 'Grades,'” Earick writes in an upcoming report on the project. NG2] tackles long-standing educational barriers to personalized learning.
eSchool News
AUGUST 3, 2021
According to the National Council on Teacher Quality (2012), the average teacher in the United States gets 45 minutes of planning time per day. Auto-grading assignments A report by Scholastic (2012) states that the average teacher spends 90 minutes a day grading at home.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 11, 2023
That’s the case with the most recent results from a key global education test, the Program for International Student Assessment or PISA. students in this lowest level has swelled; back in 2012, a little over a quarter of U.S. Sixty-five percent report being distracted by digital devices during math lessons.
EdTech Magazine
SEPTEMBER 20, 2018
Currently, the primary ways adaptive software adapt are with content, assessment , and sequence. . Truely adaptive software can assess, deliver content, and modify a student’s path through curriculum according to a set of programmed instructional heuristics. Seems ideal, right? . 1:1 at scale. 1:1 at scale.
eSchool News
DECEMBER 29, 2021
According to the National Council on Teacher Quality (2012), the average teacher in the United States gets 45 minutes of planning time per day. Auto-grading assignments A report by Scholastic (2012) states that the average teacher spends 90 minutes a day grading at home.
100mentors
NOVEMBER 5, 2019
We conclude this series with the last but not least IB requirements for teaching and learning in the Diploma Programme (DP): assessment and self-management skills. This final installment covers h ow to cultivate students’ self-management skills through teaching informed by assessment. How can you turn this around?
Edsurge
MARCH 11, 2024
Gen Zers, born between 1997 and 2012, spend a lot of time online, consuming and creating digital content. The report is quite interesting from an academic library perspective,” said Beth McNeil, 2023-2024 president of the Association of College and Research Libraries and dean of libraries at Purdue University. the report noted.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
DECEMBER 28, 2023
Related: Great Motivational Videos for Students Aspects of Motivation In his paper “ Student Motivation and the Alignment of Teacher Beliefs “, Weisman (2012) provides an insightful overview of different aspects of motivation in the educational context. Each correct answer allows a student to mark a spot on their Bingo card.
100mentors
NOVEMBER 5, 2019
We conclude this series with the last but not least IB requirements for teaching and learning in the Diploma Programme (DP): assessment and self-management skills. This final installment covers h ow to cultivate students’ self-management skills through teaching informed by assessment. How can you turn this around?
Edsurge
JANUARY 19, 2021
In the 10 years following the end of the Great Recession in 2009, student loan debt increased nearly 130 percent, according to a recent report published by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Yet even those increases can’t account fully for how the U.S. set a new record high for student debt in 2020, surpassing $1.7
Edsurge
DECEMBER 6, 2016
The results are in: The National Center for Education Statistics today released its findings for the 2015 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA). The assessment, which has been administered every three years since 2000, measures math, science and reading literacy of 15-year-olds in 73 education systems around the globe.
eSchool News
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
Thirty-nine percent of the books children access through the program are opened for the first time outside of school hours, and books have been accessed over 71,718,216 times since the inception of the program in 2012, equating to over 336 million minutes spent reading. We look forward to continuing to support them for many years to come.”.
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
Zoom is actually a decade old, and the first conferences launched in 2012, limited to a mere 15 participants. While post-pandemic growth has slowed as schools resume in-person learning, the company is still flush with cash, reporting over $1 billion in revenue in the second quarter of 2021.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
JANUARY 3, 2024
This highlights the essential role of teacher collaboration in school reform efforts, with restructured schools reporting marked improvements in student performance. This could involve using differentiated instruction, incorporating multicultural education, or employing a range of assessment methods. Adaptive teachers, as Madda et al.
Waterford
JANUARY 30, 2020
3] Teachers who prioritize teaching emotional intelligence report lower levels of behavioral issues, classroom bullying, and chronic absenteeism.[13] Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2012, 30(4), pp. Advances In Management, October 2012, 5(10), pp. Emotional Intelligence in Classroom. Salovey, P., and Mayer, J.D.
EdNews Daily
MARCH 22, 2017
During the 2012–2013 school year, more than 30 million students participated in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) , according to a U.S. Government Accountability Office report. Nevertheless, the USDA regulations went into effect during the 2012-2013 school year. How exactly do these foods affect children?
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.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 1, 2020
The number of history degrees granted — bachelor’s degrees — fell from 35,000 in 2012 to this last year, fewer than 24,000,” says Julia Brookins, special projects coordinator for the American Historical Association (AHA). “So, The AHA launched the nationwide initiative in 2012 and called it “Tuning.”.
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 21, 2019
Second, teachers in the ASSISTments classroom were able to view a report showing the results of the assignment before students arrived to class; consequently, they knew exactly which problems gave their students the most difficulty. Research to the Rescue Today, my classroom looks vastly different than it did back in 2012.
Marketplace K-12
APRIL 15, 2016
billion added since 2012, said Colin Messenger, senior analyst at Futuresource Consulting, in a release about the company’s most recent study, “Technology in Education: Global Trends, Universe Spend and Market Outlook.” The post Spending on Ed-Tech Hardware Hits $15B Worldwide, Report Finds appeared first on Market Brief.
Securly
FEBRUARY 14, 2017
In 2012, Chromebooks accounted for only 1% of the devices sold to US classrooms; now, they make up more than half of the edtech market. “More tech-based monitoring and assessment tools will be incorporated into to the instructional mix.” Parents are engaged via student activity reports on school-owned devices.
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 10, 2019
A Reboot Foundation report finds a negative tie between the use of tablets in school and fourth-grade reading scores. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. Eighth graders who reported using computers to conduct research for projects had higher reading test scores than those who didn’t use computers for research.
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 ).
Doug Levin
APRIL 30, 2016
Employed measures of academic achievement that were standardized assessments or norm-referenced district- or school-wide tests; Reported the duration of the study; and, Otherwise provided sufficient statistical data to calculate effect sizes.
Doug Levin
APRIL 21, 2016
Note that the last category is the most subjective and one might reasonably argue some reports (including those conducted under contract with the U.S. Federal Program Evaluations and Program-Related Reports: The First-Year Implementation of the Technology Literacy Challenge Fund in Five States (American Institutes for Research, 2000).
Ed Tech from the Ground Up
APRIL 6, 2016
According to research from online course provider Sophia Learning and the Flipped Learning Network , the number of teachers who have flipped a lesson has grown from 48 percent in 2012 to 78 percent in 2015. She reported that before flipping, professional development didn’t connect with teachers.
A Principal's Reflections
FEBRUARY 20, 2013
students in global assessments in math and science is another troubling statistic: According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, fifteen-year-old girls in 65 countries generally outperformed boys worldwide, but in the United States, boys outperformed girls in quantitative studies. News STEM Summit 2012.
Edsurge
DECEMBER 19, 2018
In 2012, the government of India stated that it would need to build 1,000 new universities and an astounding 50,000 new colleges by 2020 to meet expected demand as its population and workforce continued to grow. Some reports suggested students didn’t learn much of anything, and were certainly not prepared to tackle real-world problems.
Waterford
JANUARY 14, 2020
According to student stress statistics, nearly half (45%) of the teenagers polled reported that they’re stressed all the time, and 70% report that anxiety or depression are “major problems” for themselves or their peers.[9,11] In fact, one-fifth of all children report that they worry a lot.[14] Lack of participation in school.
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. early learning inventory), an entirely new grading system for my students—but only for kindergarten and not aligned to the criteria included on the report cards we sent home.
ViewSonic Education
MAY 7, 2019
Teachers report that increased student attentiveness and engagement is the number one benefit to teaching with interactive front-of-room technology, and a majority of educators – around 77% in one survey – believe that an interactive display in the classroom is very important or an absolute must. Onscreen editing and recording.
Edsurge
MAY 21, 2021
They’re about a decade behind their university counterparts, who helped to found edX in 2012 , the same year that startup Coursera launched its competing service, now worth millions. As Tracy Hartzler, president of Central New Mexico Community College, said in the Unmudl report: “Without a doubt we are thinking about lifelong learning.”
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 19, 2020
Credit: Darcy Sprague for the Hechinger Report. In April, the NWEA, a nonprofit assessment organization, published research showing some students could start school this fall nearly one year behind where they would normally be , part of a phenomenon referred to as the “Covid slide.” Credit: Darcy Sprague for the Hechinger Report.
The CoolCatTeacher
SEPTEMBER 25, 2015
Here’s why: “The report suggested that “we have not yet become good enough at the kind of pedagogues that make the most of technology; that adding 21st century technologies to 20th century teaching practices will just dilute the effectiveness of teaching.”. This report is no surprise. Technology in classrooms means little.
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 11, 2019
Steve Friess for The Hechinger Report. Red Wing High laid off its full-time college adviser in 2012 amid budget cuts. The school has two full-time school counselors, but in 2012 laid off a staffer whose sole focus was guiding students to college or other post-secondary options. Steve Friess for The Hechinger Report.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 11, 2023
They don’t have the knowledge right now to assess what’s a credible source and what is not,” she said. More than 150 teachers have graduated from the program since it started in 2012. “I The post As science denial grows, science museums fight back by teaching scientific literacy appeared first on The Hechinger Report.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 6, 2022
When she started at a new school in the fall of 2012, she breezed through the timed math tests. Credit: Erika Rich for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Erika Rich for The Hechinger Report. “It Erika Rich for Hechinger Report Credit: Erika Rich for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Erika Rich for The Hechinger Report.
Edsurge
AUGUST 23, 2023
The effort in New York, known as direct admission, comes after SUNY has seen an overall enrollment decline of about 21 percent since 2012. It is too early to assess impacts on enrollment for the third year, as these students would be enrolling for this upcoming fall.) times more likely to "apply.”
Digital Promise
MARCH 6, 2017
Over the past two decades, several investigators have reported differences in the brain and behavior of musicians compared to non-musicians. Follow-up assessments after their training would reveal how each group changes over time. These functions are important for the development of language and reading skills.
Edsurge
MARCH 29, 2020
The CEO of Preply says he was less focused and less experienced back in 2012, when he opened operations in the Boston area for an earlier iteration of his company. About 21 percent of learners on the platform report using Preply to improve skills to promotions and better job opportunities. In addition to the U.S.,
Digital Promise
JUNE 30, 2016
According to findings culled from five meta-analyses, blending technology with face-to-face teacher time generally produces better outcomes than face-to-face or online learning alone ( Cheung and Slavin, 2011; Cheung and Slavin, 2012 ; Tamim, Bernard, Borokhovski, Abrami, and Schmid, 2011 ; Means et al, 2009 ; Means et al.,
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