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Empowering Community Perspectives in Evaluation Research

Digital Promise

What is equitable evaluation? As funders, government agencies, and service providers become increasingly focused on program evaluation results to make evidence-based decisions, evaluators and other researchers seek to answer this question.

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On the Relationship Between Adopting OER and Improving Student Outcomes

Iterating Toward Openness

They are essentially media comparison studies or, to be more precise, license comparison studies. It should surprise no one that media comparison studies find no significant difference in student learning. ” This is a theme in media comparison studies that has been repeated in the literature for decades.

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

The Hechinger Report

IXL says its program is “proven effective” and that research “has shown over and over that IXL produces real results.” Edgenuity boasts that the first case study in its long list of “success stories” shows how 10th grade students using its program “demonstrated more than an eightfold increase in pass rates on state math tests.”.

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This Tech Encourages Career Planning When It Matters Most—Before Graduation

Edsurge

The tool also supports the Kansas State Department of Education’s move to provide Individual Plans of Study for students. For instance, our 2019 seniors have already earned 100 certifications and our 2020 seniors have already earned 106 certifications. Download this handy program evaluation and buying checklist.

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An Interactive Tool Empowers High Schoolers To Take Control of Career Planning

Edsurge

The tool also supports the Kansas State Department of Education’s move to provide Individual Plans of Study for students. For instance, our 2019 seniors have already earned 100 certifications and our 2020 seniors have already earned 106 certifications. Download this handy program evaluation and buying checklist.

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Transforming a School District’s Leadership and Literacy Instruction to Increase Equity

edWeb.net

After a curriculum audit and a second opinion confirmed the resources being used were not well aligned with the level of text on state tests, there was also a program evaluation that showed disparities in literacy instruction, with some educators not always providing the level of instruction students needed.

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The dark side of education research: widespread bias

The Hechinger Report

Critics have attacked Big Pharma for widespread biases in studies of new and potentially profitable drugs. And that may be leaving teachers and school administrators in the dark about the full story of classroom programs and interventions they are considering buying. They want a study that puts the best face forward.”

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