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K-12 Educators and Administrators: Share Your Ed-tech Pilot Approach

Digital Promise

8 PM ET, March 27, 2015. Director of Research and Program Evaluation. “We first piloted an adaptive math program with elementary school students. Now we want to learn how well it meets our needs at the middle school level where our students struggle with the transition to high school math.”

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Ed tech companies promise results, but their claims are often based on shoddy research

The Hechinger Report

In 2014, the district’s program evaluation department published a study on the reading program’s impact on student learning, as measured by standardized tests. When examining the data, there is a clear indication that SuccessMaker Reading is not improving student growth scores for students,” the evaluation said.

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A Unified Approach for Digital Integration

edWeb.net

They also send a technical survey to the vendor, many times followed by a call or meeting to review more details of that resource. DET, working with all things data, develops processes for evaluating digital content, measures efficacy of implementations, and informs decision-making, training, and evaluation.

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Michigan School Administrators’ Journey Toward Increased Equity and Inclusion

edWeb.net

The resulting program was designed to last five years, with annual pre- and post-year evaluations, two days of professional development at the start of each school year, and staff meetings focused on developing cultural proficiency.

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Debunking the ‘Gold Standard’ Myths in Edtech Efficacy

Edsurge

Congress redefined its support of education under a program called the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) of 2015. Summative Research This is all about outcomes and includes the classic RCT and QED research programs. Evaluating outcomes in this way takes both time and financial resources.

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