eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

However, Project Unicorn’s 2023 State of the Sector Report indicates that this remains a significant challenge for school districts. Interoperability is also critical to enable us to transform assessment. Most (65.38%) respondents still need to define data governance goals and objectives at the organizational level.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 25, 2023

Department of Education reports show that technology can potentially transform education. Things like calculators, spreadsheets like Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets, and other data analytics software are all useful in getting learners to test techniques like hypotheses and regression analysis and make predictions.

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Student Engagement Tools How To Tablets 283

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2022

A new report by the nonprofit educational assessment maker NWEA documents that third graders are currently suffering the largest pandemic-related learning losses in reading , compared to older students in grades four to eight, and not readily recovering. That’s why NWEA’s findings for third graders are alarming. Source: NWEA).

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Elementary Analysis Report E-rate 145

Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2021

The ISTE Standards for Educators (credit: ISTE) State leadership is crucial to advancing this strategic vision at this unique moment, and their efforts are represented in state reopening and/or remote learning guidance documents from this past fall. Much work remains.

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Analysis Education Digital Divide Policies 200

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The highest rates of non-submission were among American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian students (as well as students who did not report their race or ethnicity on Common App), and the lowest rates were among white and Asian students. When filling out financial aid forms, her mother had the needed documents prepared, for example.

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Survey Analysis Advocacy Report 200

Digital Promise

MAY 14, 2019

The results of large-scale tests may be used by schools or policy-makers to make important decisions such as grouping students by ability or assessing how well schools are doing. Across Canada, researchers and educators have documented the need to transform how the provinces assess literacy and consider more innovative designs.

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Assessment Secondary Social Media Analysis 261

NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. The free assessments include Google Docs assessments to copy and digital rubrics to download. That was certainly the case in our experience.

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Assessment Analysis Social Media Libraries 60

eSchool News

DECEMBER 7, 2022

New data and analysis released by the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) finds ample opportunities for improvement in states’ teacher and principal evaluation policies. The new NCTQ report, State of the States 2022: Teacher and Principal Evaluation Policies , presents data and analysis on policies from all 50 states and D.C.

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Policies Survey Analysis Data 70

The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2022

The latest is an analysis of more than 4 million high school seniors who took the ACT from 2010 to 2021. Today, A students make up a majority of ACT test takers, some of whom are not college bound and take the test as a required high school assessment. As grades rose, achievement fell. Something interesting is happening in 2016.

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Analysis Study Report Assessment 142

Digital Promise

JUNE 19, 2019

Over the last 10 years policymakers have focused much of their K-12 school reform attention on making the evaluation of teachers more rigorous and tying performance results to their compensation (see recent Calder report here ). A large share of $4.3 The results are already paying off for students and the educators who serve them.

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Policies Analysis Assessment System 333

PlagiarismCheck

APRIL 24, 2023

Ease of Admin All of the five plagiarism checkers offer a user-friendly admin panel that allows administrators to manage users, documents, and settings. PlagiarismCheck.org, Turnitin, Copyleaks and PlagScan all provide access to usage reports and detailed analysis of plagiarism check results.

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Comparison Software Moodle LMS 90

Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Additionally, documents such as PDFs, notoriously difficult to annotate online, should be dynamic and interactive. District Assessment Sharing and Data-Rich Reporting Natalee Feese Technology-enabled and auto-scored district assessments, tied to the core curriculum, are another key piece of an LMS.

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LMS Learning Assessment EdTech 146

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 20, 2017

How many times have you experienced teachers who based report card grades on how well students complete classwork, homework, and quizzes? For example, a book report may require a certain number of written (or typed) pages or paragraphs rather than evidence that the student drew conclusions and summarized knowledge. Standards Planner.

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Khan Academy Common Core Digital Citizenship LMS 154

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Several largely overlooked reports, including from the Department of Defense, raise alarms about how Americans’ disdain for math is a threat to national security. It reports that there are now eight times as many college graduates in these disciplines in China and four times as many engineers in Russia than in the United States.

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STEM Report Study Industry 135

Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Five years ago, the application of data and algorithms to the HR function—as well the use of pre-hire assessment—were in a fledgling stage. This skills-based hiring trend has real momentum and is also evidenced in analysis of employer job postings and other data sources.

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MOOC Coursera Trends Survey 202

EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

As Rachel’s story illustrates, in addition to being outstanding assessment tools, rubrics perform another, equally important function. They are an excellent medium for teaching and learning, particularly in writing, STEM, and other subjects that require critical thinking and analysis. . Rubrics as Teaching Tools. Rubrics change that.

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Learning Advocacy Assessment Meeting 182

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

More than a dozen studies have documented that students, on average, made sluggish progress in reading during the pandemic. An analysis of test scores in California and South Carolina found that students had lost almost a third of a year in reading. A national analysis of the test scores of 5.5 Fordham Institute. In 2016, U.S.

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Elementary Analysis Libraries Report 144

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Credit: Camilla Forte/ The Hechinger Report Researchers at the Erikson Institute, a child-development focused graduate school in Chicago, started the Early Math Collaborative 16 years ago to provide educators with research-backed professional development to help them better teach young students math.

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Elementary Report Conference Exercises 127

PlagiarismCheck

APRIL 24, 2023

Ease of Admin All of the five plagiarism checkers offer a user-friendly admin panel that allows administrators to manage users, documents, and settings. PlagiarismCheck.org, Turnitin, Copyleaks and PlagScan all provide access to usage reports and detailed analysis of plagiarism check results.

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Comparison Software Moodle LMS 52

Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Ask any educator who teaches five classes of 30 students each per day; there’s a lot of homework to assess. Plagiarism-detection software can address the most pressing needs of classroom educators faced with assessing students’ written work. The Challenge: When identifying plagiarism, teachers need to be confident in their assessment.

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Software Assessment Analysis Tools 153

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Every few years, the Department of Education administers a test called Long-Term Trend NAEP or National Assessment of Educational Progress to a group of students selected to reflect the diversity of the U.S. How can student achievement around the country be hit so hard if we reported in July 2022 that the pace of learning was back to normal

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Report Trends Assessment Elementary 89

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Pearson, the parent company of Connections Education, the second largest for-profit online charter operator, reported enrollment growth in its virtual schools division of 20 percent in 2020. Gary Miron, an education researcher who co-authored a National Education Policy Center report on for-profit charter schools. At Stride Inc.,

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E-rate Pearson Company Report 122

N2Y

JUNE 10, 2022

Polaris is an individualized education program (IEP) development solution that guides teams throughout the entire IEP process‑planning, writing, executing, and reporting — while promoting seamless collaboration that gives each member a voice for the best student outcomes.

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Learning Analytics EdTech Learning STEM 52

Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The legal documents outlining the charges against the parent, Karen Littlefair, paint a picture of people who view college credit as something that can easily be bought as a commodity. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, according to a report yesterday in Politico.

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Course Study Policies Company 148

Edsurge

MAY 21, 2021

“They want to serve in their own locales, but their markets need to go farther,” says Holly Zanville, a research professor and co-director of the Program on Skills, Credentials, and Workforce Policy at George Washington University who recently published a commissioned report about Unmudl.

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Company Course Coursera Training 169

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 3, 2023

Research has shown that facial analysis algorithms and datasets perform poorly when examining the faces of women, Black and Brown people, the elderly and children. This story about racial bias in edtech was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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EdTech Company Data Software 114

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2022

Credit: Photo: Rory Doyle / The Hechinger Report. We know that kids love it and so do parents and teachers,” said Emily Morton, a researcher at NWEA, a nonprofit assessment company, who has studied four-day school weeks around the country. City students were excluded from the analysis because no city schools had adopted four-day weeks.

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Study Analysis Policies Report 116

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

But a scathing audit report released by the U.S. The title of the 93-page report left no doubt of the inspector general’s conclusion: “ Western Governors University Was Not Eligible to Participate in the Title IV Programs. ” The report found that WGU’s offerings fit the definition of correspondence courses rather than online courses.

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Course Report Analysis Outcomes 115

Kitaboo on EdTech

JULY 28, 2022

Rather than doing this process manually, you can simply enter the names of the ebooks/articles and the page numbers, and Kitaboo would automatically collate the information in a document ready for your use. Automated assessments: Assessments are integral to any teaching process.

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Tools eBook Gamification Assessment 52

Educational Technology Guy

JANUARY 22, 2015

I also have templates for Project Management Packets and Reports, Small Project Summary Reports, Statement of Work, Policy and Procedures, Phone Call notes, Root Cause Analysis, Tech Project Risk Analysis and Pre-Project Checklist, New Tech Review checklist, unit plans, lesson plans, lesson schedules and more.

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Analysis Meeting Report Assessment 100

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Credit: Noah Willman for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Noah Willman for The Hechinger Report. Among the biggest players are online giants including the nonprofit Southern New Hampshire University, which tax documents show spent $144 million on advertising and promotion in 2019. Johns Hopkins reported spending $29.6

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Social Media Report Survey Conference 145

Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

Consider this post (light on analysis, heavy on the archiving of primary source material) one for the wonks, students, and historians. Note that the last category is the most subjective and one might reasonably argue some reports (including those conducted under contract with the U.S. Technology Literacy Challenge Fund.

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Policies Technology Program Evaluation Education 150

Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

The federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, for example, limits the use of school-improvement funds to interventions that benefit student learning as documented by at least one well-designed and well-implemented research study. But that’s likely to change when budgets get tight.

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Policies EdTech Program Evaluation Outcomes 132

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

laptops and tablets, as is true in Maine ) according to a recent analysis from the State Educational Technology Directors Association. This dependence can present major risks and drawbacks because of the well-documented disparities in local funding across districts and states.

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Technology E-rate Laptops Digital Divide 176

Marketplace K-12

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

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 report also suggests the impact of the logout interruptions varied greatly by school and district.

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Study Analysis Assessment Comparison 68

ExcelinEd

OCTOBER 6, 2020

A recent McKinsey & Company analysis found that “the average K-12 student in the United States could lose $61,000 to $82,000 in lifetime earnings.” Another study reported that students who received tutoring outperformed peers who did not receive tutoring by 200 percent on the same state assessment.

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STEM Analysis Study Report 57

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

This highlights the essential role of teacher collaboration in school reform efforts, with restructured schools reporting marked improvements in student performance. This could involve using differentiated instruction, incorporating multicultural education, or employing a range of assessment methods. A meta-analysis. Leijten, P.,

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Study Outcomes Elementary Data 121