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Kids can learn more from guided play than from direct instruction, report finds

The Hechinger Report

Researchers looked at 39 studies of play and included 17 in a meta-analysis that found when children ages three to eight engage in guided play, they can learn just as much in some domains of literacy and executive function as children who receive direct instruction from a teacher or adult.

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Closing gap for immigrant students under Common Core in Kentucky is a moving target

The Hechinger Report

Strong language skills are key as part of the state’s Common Core standards. Yet it’s hard to determine from looking at the state’s testing data how successful schools have been in closing the achievement gap between these students and their peers since Common Core was implemented.

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How Effective for Learning are the Apps we Use?

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Impact tracks the link between student usage on a particular app and how that may or may not influence their performance on assessments. To figure that out, they can look at assessment data for evidence of correlation between apps and test score improvement. We know that if an app is seldom used, it can’t be effective.

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States Setting Higher Expectations for Their Tests

Marketplace K-12

More than half the states have made their tests more difficult to pass, bringing proficiency rates more closely into line with the those of the rigorous National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, according to a new study. States Grapple With Common-Core Test Cutoffs. “But really, we needed to make a change.

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State Testing Disruptions Likely Produced Dips and Gains in Student Scores, Study Says

Marketplace K-12

The disruptions in online assessments that roiled Montana, Nevada, and North Dakota in the spring of 2015 appear to have had both negative and positive effects on individual students’ test scores, according to a new analysis. The Center for Assessment’s analysis looked at the testing interruptions in all three states.

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DoK: What’s The Buzz?

Fractus Learning

In Bloom’s Taxonomy, the hierarchy of performance builds upon knowledge to extend the learning objective beyond recall into comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. Over the years, Bloom’s Taxonomy has been revisited and in 2001, a revised A Taxonomy for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment ( Anderson ) was published.

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Massachusetts once had the best state test in the country. Will it again?

The Hechinger Report

The exam, known as PARCC — which stands for Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers — was aligned to the Common Core, a set of national educational standards for what students should be able to do in each grade in English and math. Related: Common Core testing showdown in Massachusetts.