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PROOF POINTS: Researchers blast data analysis for teachers to help students 

The Hechinger Report

In a 2016 survey by Harvard’s Center for Education Policy Research, 94 percent of middle school math teachers said they analyzed student performance on tests in the prior year, and 15 percent said they spent over 40 hours on this kind of data analysis. Why doesn’t data analysis work? Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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A Glitch in the EdReform Matrix: The 2016 EdNext Poll on Blended Learning

Doug Levin

While I asserted that the polling question was of dubious value and its analysis misleading, the authors doubled down on the broad importance of the question and line of inquiry. The post A Glitch in the EdReform Matrix: The 2016 EdNext Poll on Blended Learning appeared first on EdTech Strategies. This is malarkey.

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Analyzing a meta-analysis of flipped learning

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

” The far-reaching meta-analysis considered flipped learning experiments done in elementary schools, high schools and colleges, with the bulk of the studies in the higher ed setting. If this paper were just a meta-analysis, the criticism would be much easier to take. The authors say "yes" but this is so far speculative.

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A Glitch in the EdReform Matrix: The 2016 EdNext Poll on Blended Learning

Doug Levin

While I asserted that the polling question was of dubious value and its analysis misleading, the authors doubled down on the broad importance of the question and line of inquiry. This is malarkey.

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Stanford Teaching Festival from August 1-5, 2016

Catlin Tucker

We’ll examine how technology can be used to pair texts with students at different reading levels, and we’ll explore creative strategies for driving analysis around informational texts using technology tools. Course Objective. Credits: 2.

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Beyond English: Why Writing Belongs in Every Classroom

Catlin Tucker

Writing improves reading skills (Graham & Herbert, 2010; Shanahan, 2016). The Effects of Writing on Learning in Science, Social Studies, and Mathematics: A Meta-Analysis. Writing to read: A meta-analysis of the impact of writing and writing instruction on reading. Review of Educational Research , 90(2), 179-226. Shanahan, T.

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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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