Georgia Test Prep

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

If you’ve got a child in the Georgia state school system, then you’ve probably heard of the Georgia Milestones Assessment System and how important it is. This post is a comprehensive guide on what the Georgia Milestones Assessment System (GMAS) is all about. They can indeed influence how your child progresses through school.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 14, 2023

See related article: Khan Academy Boosts National Civics Bee At this point, we have all heard about the learning gaps in math and reading scores these past few years. In 2022, only 22% of students scored “proficient” or higher on a nationwide civics assessment. Search for other school library innovations.

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EdTechTeacher

JANUARY 6, 2016

In case you missed any of this year's blog posts from EdTechTeacher, here is a recap of the most popular articles from our Instructors, Presenters, and friends. Top EdTechTeacher Blogs of 2015. We hope you will join us in 2016 at any of our Conferences or Summer Workshops to learn more! .

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Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2017

Over time, they have learned that some of the skills that are most critical for success are difficult to teach and even harder to assess. It’s not always as simple as purchasing a curriculum, or even modifying an existing set of assessments, because in many cases, these materials don’t yet exist.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 21, 2018

notifications about curriculum, assessments and emergency situations during regular school hours. Technavio analyst Jhansi Mary J says schools are finding plenty of uses for digital signage at an affordable price tag , including: welcome messages and videos during events. time-bound dayparting information. Content Subtype. CDW Activity ID.

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Waterford

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In this article, we will examine the building blocks of reading comprehension. Kilpatrick writes in his book Essentials of Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties, comprehension strategies cannot be a substitute for vocabulary knowledge and content knowledge.[7] September 2015. We’d love to see you there!

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 28, 2015

I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over half full. Part 4: Forty Educational Websites For Your Summer 2015 Toolkit ( https://21centuryedtech.wordpress.com/ ). Share content and assess in real time. Assess the whole class. Film clips, audio, articles, interactives, images. GoFormative.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 31, 2017

In 2015, the PISA financial literacy assessment found that 15-year-olds in the U.S. This article offers suggestions for how to teach financial literacy. Nearly two-thirds of Americans can’t pass a basic financial literacy test, and data from the Federal Reserve show that consumer debt hit an all-time high in early August.

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Waterford

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In this article you’ll discover strategies for fostering reading fluency in the classroom, along with five free activities you can use with your students! Essentials of Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties. September 2015. Download previous recordings or register for our next session here. Kilpatrick, D.A.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 9, 2016

As you read through them please keep in mind that some were new in 2015. Others were ones that I must have waited until 2015 to discover! Reflecting on 2015… Ten Resources I Found Valuable (This is just a small listing of ten…. These articles are also rich with vocabulary that can be used as a keyword search term.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Research Articles Debunking Learning Styles Theory For convenience, I divided it into into three main parts: 1. Recommendation against incorporating learning styles assessments in education. 2015): Examination of the scientific status of learning styles theories. Willingham et al. Kirschner, P. Riener, C., & Willingham, D.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2016

We have created common unit assessments, focusing on what we believe to be the most important standards, and we are required to meet and discuss assessment results to evaluate our teaching effectiveness. The reconfiguring and implementation of these two areas—curriculum and assessment—undoubtedly costs money and time.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Online assessments are becoming more common, and students who have strong digital literacy skills often score higher on them. Students who lack these skills may not be able to effectively demonstrate mastery of key concepts in math, reading or writing on online assessments. They can also take practice assessments using the devices.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2020

“Based on the results of our assessment, teacher candidates possess a shallow understanding of basic principles of learning science – and, perhaps as a result, they struggle to make instructional decisions that are consistent with our best scientific understanding of how students learn,” the report said.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

JUNE 10, 2023

The 40 Hour Teacher Workweek program is an online course first created in 2015 (with a total update in 2020), and we’ve now had tens of thousands of teachers complete the course. Other presenters will screen share their way through tutorials of how they organize digital files, save links, manage assessment, or plan lessons.

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EmergingEdTech

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Rubric-Assessed Article Library Apps for Research Projects At App Ed Review, we’ve been thinking about research and the ways apps can be used to support students conducting research. We see research. Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In this article, I cover a range of definitions of blended learning and discuss its advantages and disadvantages. Assessment and Feedback Challenges : Designing assessments that effectively measure learning outcomes in both online and face-to-face environments can be challenging. Z., & Grgurović, M. Italica, 94(2), 314–353.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

In 2015, someone asked me what I thought about innovation in higher ed in an email, so I responded with a couple of hundred words, which I added to in creating this short blog post. MOOCs are great ideas, but assessment and feedback loops and certification are among the many issues holding them back. by Terry Heick. Open Curriculum.

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 7, 2018

Guest article by: Hilary Scharton, Vice President of K-12 Product Strategy for Canvas by Instructure. In 2015, over 650,000 students 1 nationwide opted out of standardized tests. Assessment is authentic when it asks students to apply their knowledge to real-world, meaningful problems. Should we let our students take these tests?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

This is a reprint of an article I posted last Spring. I polled my PLN to find specific tech areas students needed help with in preparing for the Assessments. Pay attention to these and your students will be much more prepared for this Spring’s Common Core assessments: Keyboarding. 10 Factors to Inform Tech Assessment.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In a recent edWebinar sponsored by FastBridge Assessment System by Illuminate Education , Dr. John Bielinski, Senior Director of Research and Development, Dr. Rachel Brown, NCSP, Senior Academic Officer, and Dr. Kyle Wagner, NCSP, Research Associate, explained that unprecedented events like COVID-19 create a vacuum of knowledge.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

I hope you are enjoying this series on formative assessment, and I am sure you will find these tools most valuable. I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over 3/4 full and the 2016 calendar is beginning to fill. Part 4: Over 35 Formative Assessment Tools To Enhance Formative Learning Opportunities.

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ExcelinEd

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

In 2011, 78% of 4th graders scored below proficient in reading on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). These were being phased in by grade with the expectation of statewide implementation during the 2015-2016 school year. Read the full article. Go big or go home. One thing was certain.

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 31, 2022

Listen to this article. Every day more schools and districts are switching to Lumio – it’s truly a flexible, time-saving tool that makes it easy to turn your PDFs, Google Slides, PowerPoint, and Notebook files into engaging lessons with interactive activities, games, group workspaces, and formative assessment ALL built right in.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2022

Before joining Forward Edge in 2015, she worked in adult education, supervised students in an alternative school, taught computer science, and was an instructional technology coach at both the building and K-12 district levels. Head to Lumio for more information and to sign up for FREE. Katie finished her Ed.D. We need that feedback.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2017

For example, one student might read an article at a 4th grade level and another would read the same article at an 8th grade level). As I observed classrooms, I noticed a significant portion of students go through a disturbing cycle: do the playlist, take the assessment, fail it.

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ViewSonic Education

APRIL 10, 2019

We explore these controversies in our article Is Esports a Sport? Sports require students to set goals, assess the competition and consider their individual strengths and weaknesses. That’s a notable jump from the 45% of all undergraduates in 2015 that planned to study STEM. The Benefits of Esports in Schools.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 2, 2024

Service , Safety, and Security / Safe Librarian Series with Dr. Steve Albrecht OVERVIEW : Our primary focus in our webinars, articles, podcasts, and interview is on helping you build, improve, and work in a safe library environment. The value of body language as your first communication assessment tool. in Security Management, a B.A.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

I wish to share with you this article I wrote for PBLWorks (BIE/BUCK Institute) of which I am part of the National Faculty. I hope pou find this first article helpful and that you return for continued postings in this series. What type of performance-based formative and summative assessment took place? Read the article.

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Waterford

OCTOBER 30, 2019

In this article, we’ll provide an overview of learning styles and a fair presentation of the research for and against the theory. Reading/writing : information presented through written words, like books or articles. Measuring learning styles often involves an assessment such as this one from the Georgia Department of Education.

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The Principal of Change

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

In my last post, “Common Assessments” vs “Common Understandings” , I was reminded of how powerful comments are on a blog, and why blogging is a hugely powerful tool for not only sharing your learning, but learning from others. 2 What I think we mean is that we are looking for “common understandings”, not “common assessments”.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 18, 2016

The most recent Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) results for 15-year-olds show a significant drop in math performance between 2012 and 2015 among U.S. was in the top third—also had the highest proportion of teens doing poorly on the PISA math assessment. Why Math Education in the U.S. Doesn’t Add Up.

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Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

MARCH 4, 2019

The 2015 CEA Ken Spencer Award goes to Inquiry Hub. In 2015 Riverside Secondary School started delivering Digital Learning 10 to their Grade 9 students (which is also the grade we deliver it at for Inquiry Hub students). We felt that students were learning about the outcomes in DL10, but we needed a better model for assessment.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2019

Launched in 2015, Ponddy Education makes AI-supported language-learning products and services. Teachers submit Chinese text, and the app transforms it into content with leveled vocabulary that aligns to world standards for Chinese language assessments, such as the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL).

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EdNews Daily

MAY 14, 2019

In 2015, the National Association of School Superintendents (NASS) named her the National Superintendent of the Year. Next, I believe you have to begin by assessing the existing structures and systems for strengths, weaknesses and potential changes. how can they assess what’s working and what isn’t?

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 27, 2020

These and other important lessons from Oregon’s Gresham-Barlow School District were discussed during a recent edWebinar , hosted by AASA, The Superintendents Association and AASA’s Leadership Network , with the district’s Superintendent, Dr. Katrise Perera, and Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment, Lisa Riggs.

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Securly

JANUARY 5, 2016

In the last quarter of 2015, they released their findings in “ Students Computers and Learning: Making the Connection”. Ask questions that assess how a leader integrates and dictates technology into his/her projects and to those he/she leads. Digitally Mature Leaders . Robust and well designed infrastructure.

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