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Key Questions and Recommendations for Online Assessment

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Even in today’s tech-heavy environment, before moving to online assessments, leadership needs to ask: Should we? During their presentation, “Online Assessment: An Evolving Landscape and New Opportunities,” they discussed the lessons they learned when they made the transition and what they would change if they could.

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In the News: On Technology, Testing, and Equity

Doug Levin

4 February 2016. “Such clear and direct relationships are few and far between in education—and these findings raise many implications for states and districts as they shift to online assessment.” ” The post In the News: On Technology, Testing, and Equity appeared first on EdTech Strategies. .

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Take Two: Clever’s Newest Effort to Help Teachers Try Before They Buy Edtech

Edsurge

Another recent survey found that, on average, districts saw more than 700 different edtech products used each month during the last school year. In early 2016, it launched Co-Pilot to give schools free 30-day trials of edtech software built by other companies. Meanwhile, the number of tools in classrooms today has ballooned.

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52 Ways to Go Back To School, From Educators Across the United States

Edsurge

Not quite sure how you're going to run formative assessment in your classroom, or lead professional development workshops? Going Back to School With the 2016 EdSurge Fifty States Project" guide. From teachers, edtech coordinators, librarians, superintendents and others, articles are organized around four topic categories.

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Fighting Apathy, Neglect and Racism to Give Left-Behind Learners a Chance

Edsurge

This started with a pre-test, many of which are available via online programs with one huge caveat: assigning a generic pre-test is a waste of time. Using USATestprep, an online assessment tool, I built diagnostics from scratch to shift the focus from what students didn’t know to what they did.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via EdScoop : “‘Deliberate cyberattack ’ delays online assessments in five states.” ” (I guess this is some sort of follow-up to this 2016 story in Edsurge touting Education Element’s work helping districts implement personalized learning.). Edtech Companies?” Billion People?”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The startup was later sold to Valore Education in 2015 , which was in turn acquired by Follett in 2016 , which in turn shut down the Boundless site in 2017. And the federal government itself ran fake online universities too.

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