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Better Feedback for Deeper Learning

A Principal's Reflections

Goodwin & Miller (2012) provided this summary: In Marzano, Pickering, and Pollock's 2001 meta-analysis, McREL researchers found an effect size for feedback of 0.76, which translates roughly into a 28-percentile point difference in average achievement (Beesley & Apthorp, 2010; Dean, Pitler, Hubbell, & Stone, 2012).

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Critical Steps for Safeguarding Data Privacy

edWeb.net

Of course, there are technical aspects to protecting data, and as many schools have learned during the pandemic, district IT staff need to stay on top of evolving efforts to compromise systems. Based on CoSN’s “ Student Data Privacy: A School System Priority. However, it’s about the right data in the right hands.

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GED and other high school equivalency degrees drop by more than 40% nationwide since 2012

The Hechinger Report

Red states are where the annual issuance of new high school equivalency diplomas has fallen by more than 50 percent between 2012 and 2016. Data unavailable for Oklahoma. Data source: Thomas J. Click on any state to see data on the number of students who took and passed a high school equivalency exam.

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PowerSchool Completes Schoology Purchase in March Toward ‘Unified’ K-12 Data Ecosystem

Edsurge

This latest deal—the ninth since Gulati joined in 2015—is part of PowerSchool’s ongoing drive to create a one-stop shop where data about a student or teacher can be collected and shared across the different tools they use in their day-to-day lives.

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How DC Public Schools Uses Student Data to Support Mental Health

Edsurge

We've been offering EBT interventions as part of that model since the 2011-2012 school year. We needed a better system to capture—and then use—the immense amount of data we were collecting through our EBT interventions. We had to package up the data and send the forms to a vendor for scanning. Join thousands of educators.

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Comparing the 2016 and 2012 FLVC Student Textbook Survey Results

Iterating Toward Openness

However, I’ve also read people saying that the results are essentially unchanged from the 2012 survey to the 2016 survey. An analysis of these data demonstrate that there are in fact some statistically significant differences in student responses from 2012 to 2016. Responses from 2016 and 2012, Table 1, p.

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A Reflection On 2012-The Most Popular Posts

The Web20Classroom

As we close out 2012, let''s take a look back at the most popular posts here. Data can be boring. With the release of the Apple iBooks Author many educators jumped at the chance to create their own textbooks and books for the classroom. But what if you don''t have access to it or don''t use Apple in your district?

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