eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2023

Utilizing a Roblox Community Fund grant , the organization will explore innovative ways to use 3D immersive experiences to engage students in the study of science and assess their achievements in the subject. Current assessments often leave out non-academic skills like student-decision making or progress toward reaching a goal.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JULY 7, 2016

For some time now I’ve been critical of “disposable assessments.” ” An assessment can be characterized as “disposable” if everyone understands that its ultimate destiny is the garbage can. ” Research on Renewable Assessments. Student writes the paper and submits it to faculty.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2022

This acquisition deepens the company’s assessment capabilities and broadens its commitment to keep teachers at the center of instruction by providing insights and personalized instruction to enhance students’ learning experience,” a Renaissance spokesperson said in an email interview with EdSurge. Why the pairing?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Advocacy for the extension or renewal of ECF funding is a critical step. They are able to conduct a comprehensive assessment of a school’s device inventory, taking into account the age, condition, and compatibility with the latest software to give a clear understanding of the potential value if upcycled.

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eSchool News

MARCH 29, 2024

Middle and high school The most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress found that 30 percent of both eighth- and 12th-graders were unable to meet basic reading standards such as determining the meaning of familiar words or identifying explicit details from a text.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 15, 2019

We are proud to have influenced the new ESSA requirements and provisions through our research, publishing, consulting to the United States Department of Education, and advocacy work. Related content: Academics and SEL go hand-in-hand.

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eSchool News

JUNE 7, 2023

– K-12 assessment and research organization NWEA released today a new study that takes a deeper look into instructional practices driving high academic growth. Use student discourse as formative assessment 10. PORTLAND, Ore.– Provide targeted practice for foundational skills 7.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 12, 2023

Upon closing, NWEA will operate as a division of HMH, with its current offerings, including its flagship assessment—MAP Growth—remaining under the NWEA brand. NWEA assessment solutions will be integrated with HMH curriculum on HMH’s platform to create a combined offering that links interim assessment to instruction.

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eSchool News

APRIL 9, 2024

Instead, measure student progress on brief, predictive measures, including foundational skills assessments, such as word-recognition fluency in kindergarten or oral-reading fluency in first grade. Do not create goals that include a set amount of sight words to reach by the end of the year. Support teachers with time for professional learning.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Success in this area requires a shared vision, language, and expectations that not only make sense, but also jive with curriculum, standards, and assessment. Sound pedagogy lays the foundation with an added emphasis on scaffolding, innovative assessment, and improved feedback. Enter the Rigor Relevance Framework.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The assessment, NAEP, represents a clear, quantifiable window into the impact of the pandemic’s disruption on student performance, its administrators say. Over the last two-and-a-half years, students’ math and reading scores saw a historic decline, according to the results of a Congressionally-mandated test—known as the “nation’s report card.”

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eSchool News

JUNE 7, 2022

MAP Growth (an interim assessment. which can measure academic growth and predicts performance on the annual STAAR state assessments) was selected, in part, due to its reliability and validity. The rich data provided by MAP Growth allows districts to streamline their assessment programs, saving valuable time for instruction.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2021

The Power of Assessment Digging through Jason’s files and coming up empty reinforced my belief that, if we had a true district-wide RTI framework with a uniform approach to assessment, we would have uncovered Jason’s needs sooner. Although the RTI framework includes many components, Jason guided my focus on assessment.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2020

It has also forced school leaders to become more creative, outspoken and innovative in their advocacy and leadership—lessons they will take with them to help drive change in 2021. In parallel fashion we should begin by self-assessing the environments and communities in which we work. We also must continue assessing students.

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eSchool News

MAY 9, 2023

The division will maintain its current offerings including its flagship assessment MAP Growth and continue to offer platform-agnostic assessment solutions to its thousands of partners globally. In addition, educators will benefit from a connected solution linking NWEA’s assessments with HMH’s curriculum.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

It is driven by choice, voice, and advocacy. Tools like TodaysMeet and Mentimeter can also be used to gather perception data from kids Implement portfolios as a means of authentic assessment When hiring new teachers and administrators have kids on the interview committee As policies that impact students are created or updated (i.e.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The Association of Test Publishers (ATP), the leading international organization for publishers of assessment programs, has named Curriculum Associates’ CEO Rob Waldron to its newly formed CEO Council. It’s an honor to be chosen alongside respected leaders from across different assessment sectors for the ATP CEO Council,” said Waldron.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The awards program honored 17 individuals for their extraordinary education advocacy and leadership. Latino Serving Central Office Administrator of the Year – Dan Swartz, Director of Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment, Skokie School District 73.5, The 2022-2023 honorees are: ALAS Awards.

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

As Rachel’s story illustrates, in addition to being outstanding assessment tools, rubrics perform another, equally important function. For rubrics to serve as a teaching tool, as well as a valid assessment tool, they must meet certain criteria. A Tool for Self-Advocacy. Rubrics as Teaching Tools. Rubrics change that.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Students assess their own strengths and weaknesses and set learning goals in partnership with their teachers. One professor reached out to tell me how impressed he was by the self-advocacy that students from our district demonstrated. But the true indicator of impact came directly from students and their eventual professors.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 17, 2018

They are great models for how to use social media in empowered ways for research dissemination, policy advocacy, and educational impact. Audrey Amrein-Beardsley, @vamboozled_ , vamboozled.com (educator assessment). I would encourage you to see how the following scholars are engaging online. wordpress.com (school finance).

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eSchool News

AUGUST 1, 2016

What would learning look like if students could demonstrate knowledge and skills through embedded, performance-based assessments throughout the year rather than a statewide, end-of-year multiple choice exam? Thanks to the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), some states are about to find out.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 8, 2019

What’s more, they even take ownership of their learning and get involved in everything the process implies: setting the tasks, the problem-solving process, the learning environment and resources, and the assessment stage. Open-ended inquiry. Any given task requires students to reach a conclusion or a solution. Mastery of key concepts.

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Edsurge

JULY 19, 2023

She co-founded edtech company LangInnov to address what she saw as a gap in the market for assessing Latino children’s reading abilities. We are constantly here hearing that Black and Latinx kids do not do well in assessments, and I wonder whether it's because those assessments weren't really designed for them,” Raña says.

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mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

MARCH 20, 2015

A school librarian advocacy video from the New Jersey Association of School Librarians, worth watching. BEST school librarian advocacy video! Jx A photo posted by Johanna Basford (@johannabasford) on Mar 12, 2015 at 5:03am PDT #creative !

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Clinicians can access thousands of interactive games and activities, customize content for each session, and administer assessments, all in one central location. Presence partners with top publishers so clinicians can access a comprehensive selection of desirable assessments for online administration. “It’s

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Digital Promise

APRIL 29, 2019

That means we shouldn’t just use edtech to replace worksheets, run “drill and kill” exercises, or crunch assessment performance numbers. Hear a teacher’s experience with cultivating agency and self-advocacy in her students to better understand what they needed from their learning environment.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2021

As an organization on a mission to build a strong, socially conscious and diverse tech workforce, the past year showed us where we can strengthen our existing practices and sharpen our focus and advocacy efforts to be even further out on the leading edge of innovative learning. Focus on engaging content, not seat time.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Some approaches include “advocacy centers” where students are coached through strong emotions with activities like yoga, breathing exercises or calming music. And that's when the counselors would do what they do best, which is talk to the students and assess the situation. How can I help you?’” Cole-Ochoa says.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2022

NAGC’s mission is to support those who enhance the growth and development of gifted and talented children through education, advocacy, community building, and research. National Association for Gifted Children. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

These state level purchases may include anything from Student Information Systems (SIS), Learning Management Systems (LMS), Assessment Management Systems (AMS), to Learning Object Repositories. States are often looking for best-of-breed in each system, rather than all in one packages, making open systems and interoperability critical.

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eSchool News

APRIL 14, 2022

The research used MAP Growth assessment data and revealed that while students with disabilities, English learners, and rural students make gains at rates equal to or faster than their grade-level peers during the school year, these students also experience greater learning loss in the summer, leading to persistent achievement gaps.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 17, 2017

To help achieve an ROI we increased the number of formal observations and evaluations, collected learning artifacts (lesson plans, assessments, student work, etc.) They have also been completing job-embedded tasks after these sessions and completed a reflective questionnaire as part of ICLE’s Digital Practice Assessment (DPA) process.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2024

Once students are accepted, Sanchez said, Davenport will assess their education and work experience to see what can count toward degree progressions. Students are eligible for the scholarship award regardless of their immigration status, which Davenport does not ask about, he said.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Among them are advocacy campaigns, curriculum and resource development, professional development for teachers and administrators, and continued research. We offer a number of recommendations to move this work forward. Supporting educators to teach computational thinking.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 18, 2023

Garcia-Febo is worldwide known for her passion about diversity, communities, sustainability, innovation and digital transformation, library workers, library advocacy, wellness for library workers, and new librarians about which she has taught in 44 countries. President of the American Library Association 2018-2019.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

“Faced with the choice between paying a specific debt and the unknown loss associated with long-term career opportunities of a new job or further education, consumers may be coerced into making payments on debts that are inaccurately calculated, improperly assessed, or otherwise problematic,” the bureau wrote.

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