eSchool News

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

The study, the second in a series of three examining the relationship between NAEP and the Common Core State Standards in math, was conducted by 18 math educators, supervisors and mathematicians convened by the NAEP Validity Studies Panel (NVS), an independent panel charged with examining issues related to the validity of the NAEP assessments.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

It’s been over five years since Kentucky adopted the Common Core, guidelines for what students need to know in math and the English language arts in each grade. Related: Common Core ignores underprivileged students — and testing will lead to more achievement gaps. Scores have been edging up ever since.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

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. Common Core requires this. It boils down to five tech areas.

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Saving Socrates

AUGUST 28, 2013

What Parents Need to Know About the Common Core and How They Can Help Their Children The Common Core is an attempt to nationalize the curriculum creating common core standards in grades K-12. assessments Common Core computers content critical thinking knowledge NON-FICTION PARCC parents skills vocabulary'

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Ever since taking the helm as CEO in 2015, Marten Roorda says ACT has closed 10 deals in which it has invested in, acquired or formed strategic partnerships with educational companies. Besides just being an assessment company, we’re also becoming a learning and navigation company,” Roorda tells EdSurge in an interview.

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Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 29, 2016

Two assessment companies—Educational Testing Service and Data Recognition Corp.—are The Texas Education Agency announced last week that it will collect a fine from ETS, the company responsible for the statewide delivery and administration of its State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness tests, with liquidated damages amounting to $5.7

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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. Grades 3 – 8 will take the End of Grade (EOG) assessment.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Educators use a variety of resources to meet the needs and interests of individual students, including videos, images, games, non-fiction text and varying types of assessments. Changes in What Teachers Know and Do in the Common Core Era. Teachers Know Best: What Educators Want from Digital Instruction Tools. Why Do They Want It?

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Battelle for Kids

AUGUST 9, 2015

August 10, 2015, Volume 2, Issue 9, Number 4. 1) That's the last line in our recently published book: Transforming Schools: Using Project-Based Learning, Performance Assessment, and the Common Core. Driving Question: How can school leaders design truly transformative models of teaching and learning?

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

50 Free Online Courses For Teachers: Spring 2015. Below is a list of 50 free online courses for teachers for Spring 2015, aggregated by Class Central. Go To Class | Next Session : 2nd Jan, 2015. . Go To Class | Next Session : 5th Jan, 2015. . Go To Class | Next Session : 5th Jan, 2015. . by Class Central.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2015

This past summer representatives of all arts education groups gathered at the headquarters of the National Association for Music Education (NAfME) to benchmark the “model cornerstone assessments” developed for each discipline’s national standards. These model cornerstone assessments help bring the National Standards into focus.

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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 17, 2016

“Nevada continues to have an affirmative responsibility to ensure that all students in grades three through eight and once in high school are assessed annually in reading/language arts and mathematics as required in the ESEA,” she wrote. . .” But Whalen also noted that the waiver only covers the 2014-15 school year. .

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2016

We have aligned English Language Arts curriculum to the North Dakota Common Core State Standards, and redesigned units to address possible gaps. The reconfiguring and implementation of these two areas—curriculum and assessment—undoubtedly costs money and time. However, these initiatives are becoming increasingly contradictory.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

The schools were recently in the news for their relatively strong performance on what’s known as the Nation’s Report Card, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). military installations are adopting Common Core — but don’t call it that. He also serves as a member of the National Assessment Governing Board.

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2018

NCES has been administering the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) exam since 1969. Graph comparing 2005 state proficiency standard levels with 2015, Source: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics Graph comparing 2005 state proficiency standard levels with 2015, Source: U.S.

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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.

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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…. The people at Common Sense Media (makers of Graphite) bring a collection of educator vetted apps.

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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). In addition to this legislation reform, the Common Core State Standards had been adopted as the Mississippi College and Career Readiness Standards in 2010. Go big or go home. One thing was certain.

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Graphite Blog

JULY 3, 2015

ELA AND ELL A+ Tools for K-5 Common Core Reading Comprehension. MATH Awesome Digital Tools for K-8 Common Core Math. Looking for great tools to support K-8 Common Core math instruction? Blended Learning with Digital Formative Assessment Tools.

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 18, 2016

million for scoring 2015-16 assessments in Tennessee after the state terminated a contract in April with Measurement Inc. Pearson, a global education company that counts assessments as less than 10 percent of its total revenues , will score about 1.8 Pearson has been awarded a contract worth about $18.5 million tests.

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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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eSpark

APRIL 5, 2022

Utica is one of only 73 districts accepted into this exclusive cohort; 22 new districts were just welcomed in October 2015. With this funding and the new adoption of Common Core State Standards, UCS began exploring blended learning models. Located in a suburb of Detroit, MI, the district had recently passed a bond reserving $28.5

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eSpark

APRIL 5, 2022

Utica is one of only 73 districts accepted into this exclusive cohort; 22 new districts were just welcomed in October 2015. With this funding and the new adoption of Common Core State Standards, UCS began exploring blended learning models. Located in a suburb of Detroit, MI, the district had recently passed a bond reserving $28.5

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

JULY 28, 2015

Here are a few resources to help w/ data / manage standards based learning: @jumpropers @MasteryConnect @MyMetryx — Tom Driscoll (@Mr_Driscoll) July 28, 2015. I want to work smarter, not harder, and not be like Alice falling down the rabbit hole learning a new and managing a new-to-me assessment platform. I don't want another platform.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

2015 PISA test scores for mathematics. Carr emphasized that the 2015 PISA results showed that students across the board, from bottom to middle to top performers, were doing worse in math. Now, with the 2015 results in, it’s a clear downward trend. now ranks 31st. Both reading and science scores were steady, with U.S.

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Technology Tidbits

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Mobile App Top 50 Sites/Apps of 2015 * Seesaw - Excellent free mobile app (Android/iOS) for students creating digital portfolio w/ educational portal. Help Teaching - A very nice site for educational resources, printables, assessments, and more. Xtranormal) by typing a script. .

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

In 2015, Minnesota’s Northfield Public Schools had a district-wide gut check. 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 main hurdle?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

The average performance of the nation’s fourth- and eighth-graders mostly held steady in math and reading from 2015 to 2017, now marking a decade of stalled educational progress, according to the results of a test released Tuesday. The one exception was eighth-grade reading, with the average score rising by one point between 2015 and 2017.

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Marketplace K-12

JANUARY 29, 2016

More than half the states have made their tests more difficult to pass, bringing proficiency rates more closely into line with the those of the rigorous National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, according to a new study. On the 2015 NAEP, Georgia turned in proficiency rates of 28 percent to 34 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

This was not the first drop in national test scores since the biennial test, called the National Assessment of Educational Progress or NAEP, was first administered in the early 1990s. Scores also dropped between 2013 and 2015. Every state has its own annual assessments but they vary in difficulty and how they are scored.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 27, 2015

Summer PD 2015 just ended. Teachers eagerly looked for tech options to traditional ‘fill out this sheet of paper’ approaches to ending class and/or assessing learning. It was run like a flipped classroom where class members picked 60% of daily topics, then they read, tested and experimented. Failed and tried again.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Bob Lenz became CEO of Buck Institute for Education PBLWorks in 2015. He recently authored Transforming Schools: Using Project-Based Learning, Performance Assessment and Common Core Standards. Editor’s note: This is one in a series of profiles about the men and women who are creating today’s EdTech companies.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2016

The exam, known as PARCC — which stands for Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers — was aligned to the Common Core, a set of national educational standards for what students should be able to do in each grade in English and math. Related: Common Core testing showdown in Massachusetts.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2017

Common Core math standards and Next Generation Science Standards were being implemented, and subjects were becoming more interconnected. We realized combining classes could help us integrate science and math standards, while team-teaching would allow us to differentiate instruction. But we have also seen other benefits.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

The districtwide shift towards blended learning began in 2015 when Erica Hartman was hired as Supervisor of Technology Integration. She uses i-Ready , which provides both diagnostic assessments and level-appropriate practice. 2015-16: Students who Met or Exceeded Expectations. 2015-16:Students who Met or Exceeded Expectations.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Compared to the previous test in 2015, the scores stayed flat. Stagnant scores breed plenty of hand-wringing and questions over the value of efforts like Common Core and investments in education reform and technology.

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Marketplace K-12

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

We’re playing a bit of catch-up here, but one of the country’s big consortia of states that sponsors common-core tests, PARCC, recently sought input on how it should reorganize itself to serve states. It offers some fascinating reading, and implications for the assessment industry. Data Recognition Corp.

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